John. DuPont (John Eleuthère du Pont, 1938--2010) was born in the rich DuPont family in the United States (the DuPont Group is theirs). His father abandoned his wife and children when he was 2 years old, and DuPont and several of his older siblings were raised by their tough mother alone on the family-owned Foxcathcher farm outside Philadelphia. After several older brothers and sisters left home, he and his mother lived on the farm until her mother died in 1988 at the age of 91. Like the children of wealthy families, he has a wide range of interests since he was a child, like collecting stamps, collecting animal and plant specimens, and keen sports. At age 36 he received a Ph.D. in natural sciences from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, published several books on birds, and funded the creation of the Delaware Museum of Natural History. The wealth of his wealthy family allowed him to be generous as an adult. In addition to founding a museum, he also donated money to schools, bought bulletproof vests for the local police, let the police conduct shooting training on his private territory, funded sports organizations, and built sports on farms. The facility supports a group of athletes engaged in swimming, wrestling, iron man events, etc. for free. He seems to want to use all this to cover up the negativity in his personality and spirit caused by the lack of fatherly love in his childhood and the mother-son relationship that is always on the weak side. influence. In fact, the people around him have long been aware of his mental instability, but he is so rich and so generous, what else can people say, at most he is just an odd rich man. To use the popular saying of the Chinese people, having money is self-willed. "I could tell he wasn't happy, he was trying to trade money for happiness and people's respect," wrestler Bruce Baumgartner later told a New York Times reporter. in John. DuPont's middle school classmates remember him as a shy and closed-off teenager who never had a girlfriend and always avoided school dances. But at the age of 45, he married Gale Wenk, a female clinician who was 15 years younger than him. But the marriage only lasted a few months, and the new wife was scared off by her husband's heinous and bizarre behavior. She later sued her husband, claiming that she had received physical threats from DuPont for divorce and compensation. The out-of-court settlement ended. The death of his mother in 1988 was a severe blow to DuPont, and his life trajectory slipped unstoppably in the other direction. He began to drink heavily, became more unstable in his mood and behavior, wore a weapon all day, and suspected that people were conspiring behind his back to get him wrong. Tragedy finally happened on January 26, 1996, when DuPont shot and killed his longtime friend and 37-year-old Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz in full view. DuPont was convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He died in prison in December 2010 at the age of 72. He never explained his real motive for shooting Dave Schultz. Director Bennett Miller's new film "Foxcatcher" ("Fox Hunter") brings the murder that happened more than a decade ago back to the public eye. The film, which has been in the works since 2006, is a helpful attempt to find the truth about the above mystery. But obviously, the film did not give a convincing explanation, and the restoration of the facts was broken and incomplete. As a sport that originated in ancient Greece, wrestling has been covered with a very strong homosexual color from the day of its birth because athletes need to have a lot of skin-to-skin contact in the competition. 1969 According to DH Lawrence's novel of the same name, "women in love", caused an uproar because it presented a wrestling scene of two naked men with a very gay sense on the screen. I once said that ballet, fashion, flight attendants and other industries are places where gays gather, so in the sports world, wrestling is undoubtedly the "hardest hit area" for gays. The sport, which has a long history and was included in the first modern Olympic Games, was unexpectedly expelled from the 2020 Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee in February last year, which means, if not repeated, the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil It will be the curtain call for wrestling in the history of the Olympic Games. The IOC did not give a reason for the expulsion of wrestling, but some good people say that too many same-sex scandals in wrestling have led to its own demise (read: interview with gay wrestling coaches). John Dupont has been funding wrestling since 1985. He built related training facilities at his Foxcatcher farm, which he used for free for athletes who were interested in wrestling. The only return he got from it was the chance to wrestle with the athletes. Although he is nearly 50 years old. In 1988, he hired Dave Schultz as a coach, and the two became very close, and DuPont invited Dave Schultz to live with his wife and children on his farm. In the circle of wrestlers who come to Foxcatcher to train, John. It's no secret that DuPont is gay. Everyone knows he's good, but because he's a wealthy patron, it's hard to point it out. He just knows it well. According to the New York Times, a Villanova University wrestler sued DuPont for sexual harassment in 1988, a lawsuit that ended in an out-of-court settlement. In order to avoid harassment by DuPont, the athletes try to train together and avoid giving DuPont the opportunity to be alone with themselves. "I feel like the wrestling world sold itself out like a prostitute," Glenn Goodman, a wrestler who trained at Foxcatcher from 1987 to 1992, told The New York Times. "It's not that we don't know what he's doing. We always knew that, but because he spent a lot of money on it, many people chose to open their eyes and close their eyes and remain indifferent." Foxcatcher's film at 1:03 points out the relationship between DuPont and Mark in the most straightforward way. If you can't even see the ambiguous relationship between them, it only means that your gaydar is too low. The biggest difference between the film and reality is that the time when David was shot was hidden. If you don’t know the truth, you would think that David was shot by Dupont immediately after Mark left the farm. In fact (according to the film) Mark left the farm after his Olympic defeat in 1988, and David was killed in 1996, with a gap of 8 years. After leaving the farm, Mark devoted himself to professional wrestling, and also achieved a brilliant record. The film explained that Mark first invited David to join DuPont, but later when he knew that DuPont had finally invited David, he showed indifference and unhappiness. Why does this shift occur? I prefer to believe that there is a love triangle between the three of them. (blog.sina.com.cn/gogoboyz , weibo.com/gogoboyz)
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