From Nate Jacobs on ‘Euphoria’ to Austin Abrams in ‘Do Revenge,’ Gen Z f—kboys dominated the zeitgeist in 2022.
Speaking of which, another key tenant of the modern-fuckboy trope is a false aura of feminism or activism of any kind. Enter Austin Abrams, who in one of theOn the school grounds, he forms the “Cis Hetero Men Championing Female-Identifying Students League” and nabs the cover of the school magazine for his feminist awakening. But behind closed doors, Max is a maniacal narcissist, using his carefully curated image to elicit explicit photos and videos from the female student body.
In the film, Max is described as “patriarchy incarnate, the ultimate manic pixie dream boy” and was inspired by fellow “Machiavellian teenager” Sebastian Valmont in“Austin’s character in a version of this movie in the ’90s and a version of this movie in the ’80s maybe was the jock,” the film’s cowriter and directoradding that she wanted to take the “rich kid, rich dick trope” and subvert it for this generation, who can be overly image-obsessed.
Part of that endeavor inevitably exposes a person’s fragility—the insecurities that lurk beneath a fuckboy’s toxic masculinity. This very fragility was to blame for the traumatic course takes once Davidson’s chronically insecure David slices his own neck open while attempting to saber a bottle of Champagne after seeing the more mature, alpha male Greg successfully pull off the same stunt. Directorthat with David she wanted to dissect “white, straight male toxicity and vanity, and the pressure on these old-fashioned men to be strong,” adding, “The character that Pete Davidson plays stands for all of those toxic values.
Although it was given new shadings of entitlement and aesthetic in 2022, the fuckboy trope is a tale as old as time, sure to morph and regenerate with the years. Alas, perhaps that’s the only thing a fuckboy can be depended on to do.
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