Are withnail and i gay

This could be one of his many periods of amnesia, or even possibly a section of his life during his year exile on Earth in the EDA novels. The only women who have a speaking role are the schoolgirls at whom Withnail directs a drive-by slut-shaming; Withnail, who is very important to Marwood, is capable of putting women on Marwood's radar by interacting with them.

There are a few reasons for this: on the commentary, Paul McGann comments that he looks as though he's been there "forever' in one of the early scenes in the flat, in regards to how well he fits with the setting, his almost suicidal alcohol consumption he drinks lighter fluid and lives, for God's sake!

There was no need for any “symbolism” - Uncle Monty was the major subplot already, and why on Earth would there need to be a deeply hidden insinuation about Withnail and Marwood anyway?. Marwood lies that Withnail is the closeted one and that the two of them are in a committed relationship, which Withnail wishes to keep secret from his family and that this is the first night in six years that they have not slept together.

Also note Withnail's "synous nicotine based" technobabble. He feeds his uncle Monty the bullshit story about himself being the one who rejected Marwood as a defense mechanism. TVTropes Now available in the app store! Marwood is an Unreliable Narrator and the reason there are so few women in the film.

Our only openly gay character, Withnail’s ultra-wealthy Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths), is bordering on offensive in his portrayal. One or more of the characters is a Time Lord. Here's how this plays out. Let's not forget that these two as well as their real life counterparts used to take bottles to off-license and use that money to get new booze.

Monty also reveals that Withnail, during the visit in London, lied that Marwood was a closet homosexual. Uncle Monty, the only character who is written into the script as gay, is essentially a villain. Withnail is immortal. Another reason for the lack of women is the title character's "acute deprivation".

Perhaps he is gay more or less to the point of being a He-Man Woman Hater , or at least women just don't appear on his radar. That's him in the page image for the story. Where Withnail and I directly portrays LGBTQ+ characters, it falls short. Alternatively, the film depicts the Great Intelligence's attempt to kill the Eighth Doctor with alcohol poisoning.

Withnail attempts to punish Marwood for rejecting him by telling Monty that Marwood is an active homosexual in exchange for the cottage knowing that Monty will probably come up there and try to rape Marwood. They were broke and couldn't afford having girlfriends, according to the author's own words.

And he's The Narrator and the eponymous "I", so it's fair to say the film is from his perspective. Marwood is quite possibly gay. Grant played the Doctor, with a personality not altogether unlike Withnail's. Withnail intended for Uncle Monty to rape Marwood Withnail is gay while Marwood isn't and he came on to Marwood at some point in the past and was rejected.

Specifically, Marwood is most definitely the Doctor, or possibly the eighth Doctor's son Given their family resemblance. Well, obviously. The film is taking place in the head of the Eighth Doctor as he lies dying and preparing to regenerate. Since he's in denial about being gay , he's not getting laid, which combines with him being young and attracted to his roommate to make him enormously sexually frustrated , so he therefore doesn't notice women.

Not wanting either alternative, he shaves his head, puts on a leather jacket and heads off to Manchester to become Christopher Eccleston , but instead ends up in Derbyshire and becomes John Hurt. Also, the actor who plays the owner of the tearoom had previously played the Lord President of the Time Lords!

This, of course, makes Withnail also a Time Lord by association. They're actually all the Doctor. The Eighth Doctor had a tendency, in any part of the canon, to get amnesiac at the slightest provocation. He demonstrates a slightly Doctor-ish personality as well: he uses very poetic description during his narration, he has a panic attack over being confined by normality, he's the sensible one throughout most of the film, he shows something of a pacifism with regards to the chicken, and, considering the ED As and their loose grasp on canon and continuity, the leather jacket he's carrying about could very well be Fitz's.

He meets a possible next incarnation Grant and is also attacked by an alternate version of himself Griffiths was rumoured to be the planned Eighth Doctor if the original BBC series had continued trying to become real by 'having' him. He must be a Time Lord too.