Chuck and Larry

The movie “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,” is about two men played by Kevin James, and Adam Sandler, and they are both New York City firemen who are best friends and will do anything to save each others lives. In the first part of the movie the two partners are shown walking through a house which just recently had a fire put out of. And they are doing a search in the house and suddenly Chuck falls off of the second story, Larry then goes on to lay on top of Chuck protecting him from falling debris that would simply kill him. In the next scene they are both shown lying in a hospital together side by side, and Chuck goes on and on to Larry about how he saved his life and he would do anything to repay him. Later on in the movie we find out that Larry has a late wife and that he is in trouble with the pension department. He is afraid that if he dies his children will be left with nothing. So, Larry comes up with the plan to get what he calls a “domestic partnership,” with Chuck and that way he can reap the benefits if Larry does indeed die. However, to make this official the two of them need to get married. They are next shown taking a trip to Niagara Falls to become married. They get married and short thereafter the whole world finds out that they are “gay” because they are photographed at a gay rally party. Once, all of their fellow firemen and the people of New York get wind of this everything for them changes. They are soon treated differently, his fellow firefighters no longer want to play basketball with them, and especially they do not want to shower with them. Also, the people of the city change, Chuck is referred to as a whore in the movie and once everybody finds out he is gay, he can not find a girl to save his life. The whole world changes for them when the world finds out that they are gay in this movie.
This movie relates back to the course material which was Privilege, Oppression, and Difference. The last word of this title is what this movie mainly has to do with. Difference, being different from others makes some people uncomfortable, just like in the movie, once people found out that they were gay, nobody wanted to be around them. Nobody wanted to hang out with them because they were afraid that they would “hit on them, or start to feel them weird and become attracted to them.” “For all its popularity, the idea that everyone is naturally frightened by difference is a cultural myth that, more than anything, justifies keeping outsiders on the outside and treating them badly if they happen to get in.” This is a perfect quote. Saying that people are afraid of becoming what others are.