The movie with Steve Carell and Channing Tatum only scratched the surface of the sexual undertones of the story. Wealthy paranoid schizophrenic lures wrestlers to sprawling estate where he lives with his mother. Mom dies and DuPont's only buffer to the real world disappears which finds him descending into darker illusions culminating with DuPont murdering his star wrestler Dave Schultz. The homosexual subtext ignored in the other films gets explored in this 2016 documentary. DuPont was jealous of Dave's friendship with Bulgarian champion Valentin Jordanov on whom he had become fixated and saw Schultz's friendship as a threat to them being together. In his will, DuPont left most of his estate to Jordanov, over half a billion in today's money.
John DuPont - Foxcatcher (2016)
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 22, 2024 2:10 AM |
Dupont was gay as fuck. That was clear. I found Dave Schultz extremely handsome-
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 21, 2024 6:07 PM |
"Even though it is only implied in the movie, Mark Schultz explains in his book that du Pont created a wrestling move called the "Foxcatcher Five," where one wrestler would grab another wrestler's testicles with five fingers. Du Pont, who had also provided the funds for Villanova University to build an athletic arena and start a wrestling program in 1986, was let go two years later after facing charges of sexual abuse and other indiscretions. The program was dropped. One of those charges came from another Villanova coach, who said that he was fired because he had refused du Pont's homosexual advances."
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 21, 2024 9:09 PM |
Dave's brother Mark in front of Channing Tatum who played him in the 2014 movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 21, 2024 9:11 PM |
I wish someone would die and leave me half a billion!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 22, 2024 2:07 AM |
I thought the movie had a genuinely great scene in it--when Vanessa Redgrave as DuPont's disapproving patrician mother comes to watch him wrestle, and beforehand he orders one of the wrestlers to let him beat him on the mat. Redgrave is immediately aware of what's up and is not only embarrassed for him but disgusted by him--and he begins to realize it.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 22, 2024 2:10 AM |