"His eyes are open. He’s wearing mascara. He looks, not to put this indelicately, like some undertakers have tried to pretty up his corpse before his family arrives for a visit. Oh, and there’s a lizard crawling across him... Scroll through the interview and you’ll see Pitt dressed like a Jim Morrison waxwork having a stroke, chewing his finger while dressed in a bright yellow safari suit and hiding out in the spot where they dug up Billy Batts in Goodfellas, dressed like the Czech Republic’s 14th-best stage magician, and doing an A+ impression of Tino the Artistic Mouse from Hey Duggee.... Still, GQ has done a very thorough job of taking one of the world’s most photogenic men and making him staggeringly unphotogenic."
When I first saw it I thought 70s porn, he looks like a porn star out of the 1970s. And then I thought that this would be a really clever way to turn the standard perceptions of him -- which are based mostly on his good looks and not much else although he is a pretty good actor -- this would turn all that on its head. So to speak.
On a side note I have been reading about the lawsuits filed against Pitt over the construction he funded to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Allegedly construction was shoddy and the houses are now falling apart. I wonder, why would Brad Pitt know anything about building houses in a swamp. Which I guess the answer is, he didn't. Allegedly.
It could be on purpose. One of Pitt's under-rated qualities is that, for a guy whose career, at least at first, was built around being incredibly handsome, he's remarkably willing to look skeezy or stupid if the scene calls for it.
Stewart’s take is fun in the MST3K way and a throwback to when you could go for funny instead of trying to keep Democrats afloat…
GQ used to be something the bankers and the and the gay guys could share, back when there was a cute girl in her underpants with a dirty joke on her lips for the former. Now there’s a woman in dirty underpants for a pronoun that couldn’t be found on a twenty sided die.
That pic is obviously a take on Ophelia after John Everett Millais’s painting. The pose staging in that style is done to death (heh) by all the fashion photographers who think they are “arty”. IDK anything about Pitt. Not a fan
In Legends of the Fall, Pitt does a one-handed mount onto his horse that caused my wife to utter a long sigh of pure admiration. And I saw no reason to chide her for it.
The guy is in good shape for his age, but Botox shows and artistic license isn't based on what we all see as good.
GQ 30 years ago was a good magazine. They took over the baton from Esquire. Good writing about issues of relevance.Good fiction too. A list of the writers who appeared in Esquire is impressive. GQ had a good stable as well. Both at their peaks, were magazines I could read from cover to cover.
If you go back far enough, Playboy also had some great writers. Honestly. Also their annual jazz and rock music readers polls were always interesting.
He looked great in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was only 3 years ago. GQ is just doing the latest woke fad of punching the white guy for being superior.
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He’s a lipstick away from ‘reading’ to my kid’s kindergarten class…
Entartete Kunst
Looked better than E. Page.
No different than those ugly Beyonce pregnant photos that everyone thought were amazing. At least people are being honest this time.
When I first saw it I thought 70s porn, he looks like a porn star out of the 1970s. And then I thought that this would be a really clever way to turn the standard perceptions of him -- which are based mostly on his good looks and not much else although he is a pretty good actor -- this would turn all that on its head. So to speak.
On a side note I have been reading about the lawsuits filed against Pitt over the construction he funded to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Allegedly construction was shoddy and the houses are now falling apart. I wonder, why would Brad Pitt know anything about building houses in a swamp. Which I guess the answer is, he didn't. Allegedly.
It could be on purpose. One of Pitt's under-rated qualities is that, for a guy whose career, at least at first, was built around being incredibly handsome, he's remarkably willing to look skeezy or stupid if the scene calls for it.
You really have to work hard to make Brad Pitt look bad.
Brad pit is not my cup of tea. He looks bad there. good luck, rich guy. and whatever.
Stewart’s take is fun in the MST3K way and a throwback to when you could go for funny instead of trying to keep Democrats afloat…
GQ used to be something the bankers and the and the gay guys could share, back when there was a cute girl in her underpants with a dirty joke on her lips for the former. Now there’s a woman in dirty underpants for a pronoun that couldn’t be found on a twenty sided die.
as my gay friend would say... "that is so gay"
That pic is obviously a take on Ophelia after John Everett Millais’s painting. The pose staging in that style is done to death (heh) by all the fashion photographers who think they are “arty”. IDK anything about Pitt. Not a fan
Drugs.
Cultural reference I had to look up:
That's a shocker; I would have expected you didn't know who Billy Bats was.
Pitt and I went to the same college at the same time. Even like that, he still looks better.
Wait until you see what they do to Elon.
In Legends of the Fall, Pitt does a one-handed mount onto his horse that caused my wife to utter a long sigh of pure admiration. And I saw no reason to chide her for it.
The guy is in good shape for his age, but Botox shows and artistic license isn't based on what we all see as good.
tim maguire,
"[Pitt is] remarkably willing to look skeezy or stupid if the scene calls for it."
You think that's a Schwinn!
[from Burn After Reading, in which he is fit, handsome, and cheerfully dim]
GQ 30 years ago was a good magazine. They took over the baton from Esquire. Good writing about issues of relevance.Good fiction too. A list of the writers who appeared in Esquire is impressive. GQ had a good stable as well. Both at their peaks, were magazines I could read from cover to cover.
If you go back far enough, Playboy also had some great writers. Honestly. Also their annual jazz and rock music readers polls were always interesting.
GQ has been doing the same number on American men generally from Volume 1 Issue 1.
If you think GQ stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly, you've halfway corrupted already.
The War on Procreation marches on. Woke culture's only heroes are castrated men and sterile women dressed up as clowns.
What would Tyler Durden think?
The high art of rigor mortis is a look? Fabulous.
Are they sure they are using his preferred pronouns in the write up?
He looks a bit like the lady who runs the coffee shop with her 'partner' that I visited last weekend.
He's trimmer, of course.
Great coffee.
He looked great in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was only 3 years ago.
GQ is just doing the latest woke fad of punching the white guy for being superior.
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