My Own Private Idaho-campfire scene

the campfire scene from Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix&Keanu Reeves

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• 1991

[cadmiumblue]

In a world where so many straight men are homophobic, watching Keanu Reeves' character stroke River Phoenix's character's hair tenderly makes me happy inside in a way I can't explain. I imagine how it would be if all men could see past sexual orientation and just love people for who they are, not who they're attracted to.

[heykaitlynn]

River wrote his speech in this scene. Amazing, beautiful, immensely talented actor.

[cadmiumblue]

@shelteringshade I said straight men because that was relevant to this scene. If it was a love scene between two women I would mention that yes, some straight women are homophobic, but admittedly, men are typically much worse.

[shelteringshade]

@cadmiumblue it's not only men, where do you live?

[fiddlesticks53]

I know it pleases some to think of River as the edgy one and Keanu as the Hollywood pretty boy, but both Keanu and River seemed equally at ease with the film's content. It is Keanu and not River after all who has a gay kiss in the film (with their pimp Bob)

Beautiful and heartbreaking moment, bravo to both actors.

RIP River :(

[vadmacs5]

Wherever,whatever....

This movie is so touching,and this is my favourite scene.River is amazing.

[7MyGirl]

miss river <3

[Josuecabanas]

Omg what happens after?

But anywhore awwww that was so cute

[temperaxmental]

@Otepfan1362 I agree, I love the ambiguity. You can never really tell if Scott was gay or not, and whether he was being dishonest to himself about his feelings for Mike. Even Mike's feelings are ambiguous, because he may think he loves Scott romantically, when really he's just looking for someone to take care of him, and the only kind of attention he's used to getting is romantic/sexual attention, and so confuses friendship for sexual attraction.

[stigidilaatio]

My favorite scene, definitely. The emotions you can feel in this... it's incredible.

[intruth7]

This is my favorite scene in film--period. Thank you for posting. For a film project, I re-made this scene with me playing River's role. But I'm not a guy...and I'm not River, so it wasn't the same. Beautiful and heartbreaking. I wish he were still around acting circles around everyone else...