Maybe he wasn't openly pro-gay, but he did change the military's policy towards gays. We had just come out of the Reagan-Bush years and we now had Clinton. Maybe this is just me, but I think that 'Philadelphia' was released at just the right time. Good support also comes from Jason Robards as Andrew's vicious ex-boss, Joanne Woodward as Andrew's ever-loving mother, and Antonio Banderas as Andrew's companion. Equally good is Denzel Washington as homophobic lawyer Joe Miller, who is forced to ignore his own stereotypes in taking Andrew's case. Tom Hanks gives the performance of a lifetime as AIDS-afflicted lawyer Andrew Beckett, fired from his law firm after they discover his condition. For so many years, they portrayed gays as sissies, but this movie forced them to change. 'Philadelphia' may be the movie that changed Hollywood. that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine.

listen.'I bring sorrow to those who love me.' Oh, that single cello! 'It was during this sorrow that love came to me.' A voice filled with harmony. The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. 'Look, the place that cradled me is burning.' Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died. This is 'Andrea Chenier', Umberto Giordano. Joe Miller: I'm not that familiar with opera.Īndrew Beckett: This is my favorite aria.

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