(May 19, 2014 at 11:39 am)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote:(May 19, 2014 at 10:37 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: And after the gay extravaganza of Frozen, will this even be a big deal?
Perhaps I'm underestimating homophobics' capacity to go ape shit over these things.
I haven't seen Frozen but I heard it actually has no homosexual characters in it. It was just right wing loonies reading between the lines that falsely inferred a homosexual message.
Just imagine what an explicitly gay character in a kids movie will do to the right.
(I haven't seen it either.)
(May 19, 2014 at 11:43 am)Kitanetos Wrote: There was that gay character in ParaNorman, though one did not know till the end that he was gay.
So the director is calling this momentary joke Gobber's "coming out," but will anyone actually take it as anything more than a joke? (Excepting the right wing nuts for a moment)
I feel like this sort of one-liner has been done before in kid-oriented movies with no real repercussions and calling attention to the line is just highlighting the implications in a Steisandian way and is now gaining the movie press that it otherwise might not have gotten, especially if it really is as the OP quote says and was thrown in as an ad-lib joke and nothing more is made of it in the plot of the movie.
If anything would have warranted a fuss being made about it by the right-wingers, it's not the supposed pro-gay messaging in Frozen, or the ad-libbed line in HTTYD2, it's the gay character in ParaNorman.
Was there fuss made over ParaNorman and I just missed it? Or are the right wingers just cherry-picking Disney?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
