Non Threatening Boys*: Dads in Film; An Ode to the Dads, Not the Daddies
Words: Eliza Frost
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From daddy issues to the deadbeats, discourse around dads surrounds us in everyday life, so of course it spills onto our screens. In films and on TV, the image of the father varies massively: from The Simpsons’ patriarch Homer, who is the epitome of everything you likely don’t want in a partner or a dad, to the irrevocable love of Fa Zhou in Mulan. I think that this second category of dad feels a little underappreciated.
Not to be confused with the daddies – for example, Charlie Swan from Twilight, or in any movie where Pedro Pascal plays a dad – who win us over with their silly little moustaches, the soft dad is something different entirely.
