Remembering Colin Farrell’s homoerotic war movie ‘Tigerland’ on director Joel Schumacher’s birthday
had sex with “10 or 20” thousand men.Despite that, very few of his films addressed queerness in any overt way. Oh sure, ’87’s The Lost Boys was so homoerotic it’s now officially part of the queer horror cannon.
And many of his films like The Phantom of The Opera and (especially) Batman & Robin are considered camp classics. But the drag-and-crime comedy Flawless was his only film to prominently feature LGBTQ+ characters.However, there’s another Schumacher flick that’s as steeped in homoeroticism as The Lost Boys, even though it doesn’t take up the same space in the cultural conversation.
And it just so happens to be one of his best-reviewed movies: 2000’s Tigerland.Often described as a Vietnam War movie, the film never actually leaves North America, largely taking place at a U.S.
Army training camp created as a replica of the Asian country and dubbed “Tigerland.”In his first lead role, Irish heartthrob Colin Farrell plays anti-war draftee Roland Bozz who has a knack for finding loopholes to get his fellow soldiers out of the army.
