The Advote talks to gay wrer/director Chris Butler about ParaNorman's Mch, who is revealed as (the first) gay (character a mastream animated film) durg the movie, which was released a few months ago. The Advote: I believe that ParaNorman is the first mastream animated film wh a ma character who is gay. I loved that was a punch le, but not at Mch’s expense. Butler: Y, I believe is. It was important to . We were tellg a story that was fundamentally about tolerance. We believed that was important to have the strength of our nvictns. And y, we played off as a punch le to a joke. But a sense, that ma all the more potent, I thk, bee Mch is jt an ordary guy — and what I wanted to do wh the script throughout the story was, first of all, to turn prenceptns on their head. But also, every character the movie is judgg someone else, good and bad, ually misjudgg, and I wanted to make the dience plic that. You thk you know that a zombie is gog to want to eat your bra, you thk that this dumb jock is straight. Actually, you don’t know everythg jt by lookg at them. That was important to me. And also, I thought was a funny joke. The DVD h stor last week. Check out the trailers and a uple clips, AFTER THE JUMP...
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- 'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- MCH DOWNE FROM "PARANORMAN" IS AWOME GAY REPRENTATN
- LAIKA’S ‘PARANORMAN’ PRENTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- ‘PARANORMAN’ MA HISTORY WH ANIMATN’S FIRST-EVER OPENLY GAY HIMBO 10 YEARS AGO TODAY
- WHY PARANORMAN FEATURED THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER AN ANIMATED FILM
- 'PARANORMAN' SLIPS FIRST GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- ‘PARANORMAN’ FILMMAKERS ON OUTG THE GAY JOCK MCH
- PARANORMAN CREATORS DISCS THEIR GROUNDBREAKG GAY CHARACTER
'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
Do a wir variety of narrativ and protagonists mean unabashedly gay animated characters are beg embraced by the majory of mastream U.S. dienc? * paranorman mitch gay *
In 2012, ParaNorman featured the first out gay character an Amerin, fay-targeted, animated theatril release. This has lead to an crease of gay-tged humor and ambiguo characters.
The fact that an unabashedly gay character like Mch ma on the big screen speaks to a shift Amerin culture that is reflected s animatn. In South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, the characters Satan and Saddam Hse are gay lovers; and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, the character Frylock clar himself a transsexual lbian trapped a man's body, and the end cred scene shows Frylock as a woman.
MCH DOWNE FROM "PARANORMAN" IS AWOME GAY REPRENTATN
Gay reprentatn is out there, but to portray a character who's gay as a big, happy bte is a rare treat. * paranorman mitch gay *
This clus a greater potential for gay-tged humor or gay-d characters. Gay-tged humor tends to be a short punch le or reference that has a gay-readg, but don’t affect the world or fe the sexualy of any of the characters. Gay-tged humor n also e the form of farcil homoerotic suatns between characters that are tablished as straight.
This display of homoerotic humor preces a scene which both characters are shown beg attracted to sirens who have taken the form of betiful animals of their rpective speci, and is their attractn to the femal that leads to their advertent kiss.
LAIKA’S ‘PARANORMAN’ PRENTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
Laika's 'ParaNorman' Prents First Openly Gay Animated Character * paranorman mitch gay *
In the se of gay-d characters, reliance on ambiguy allows for multiple readgs of a character.
In the live actn film Thank God It’s Friday (1978) Kenny Friedman add a gay male uple to a background crowd of dancg straight upl. He found tt screengs that straight viewers did not notice while gay viewers did.
“Which is exactly what he wanted; he found that general dienc are unwillg to see gays and he ma easier for them. Bee the Big Bad Wolf is prented as an ambiguo character, the two uld be read as a gay uple - but they don’t have to be. One review mentned as a gay kiss 7.
‘PARANORMAN’ MA HISTORY WH ANIMATN’S FIRST-EVER OPENLY GAY HIMBO 10 YEARS AGO TODAY
Well before Disney began toutg "exclively gay moments," Laika did what no other stud had done before: It troduced the first openly gay character a mastream animated feature. * paranorman mitch gay *
In this way gay dg works to a stud’s advantage. Ambiguy male characters, particularly male duos, has bee a wi enough regnized trope that bar the same name as the popular Saturday Night Live sketch, the "Ambiguoly Gay Duo.
” Other tim the qutns me the form of jt, like the Daily Show sketch that poked fun at a gay readg of the El Dorado characters 10.
WHY PARANORMAN FEATURED THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER AN ANIMATED FILM
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Eher way, the fact that a gay readg of the characters was brought up at all speaks to creasgly perceptive viewers.
'PARANORMAN' SLIPS FIRST GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
The right-wg said this animated story of a bullied kid, a pack of zombi, and an ancient curse was part of the secret gay agenda. So we asked the movie's creators what they have to say for themselv. * paranorman mitch gay *
” The fact that they the film didn’t make any pot about Bryony’s sexualy is part of why she pged some people’s gaydar, bee is so rare to have a female protagonist who is not overtly heterosexual.
To many Mch as a gay character was seen as no more a danger to child viewers then a character like Harry Potter would be as a wizard. More movi released means the potential for more risk takg the typ of characters and stori, and gay-tged humor and gay-d characters have creasgly been met wh approval by dienc or at the very least acceptance by viewers who re ls about the sexualy of the characters and more about the narrativ.
‘PARANORMAN’ FILMMAKERS ON OUTG THE GAY JOCK MCH
You knew was only a matter of time before the gay muny, which has succsfully tegrated gay characters to every possible form of entertament | * paranorman mitch gay *
This is not to unrme what a monumental thg was to have Mch be gay. ParaNorman is revolutnary, not jt bee mak the unspoken official – Gay characters n exist…Look there he is – but bee reflects our changg social valu. Gay reprentatn is out there, but to portray a character who's gay as a big, happy bte is a rare treat.
And at the very end of the film, he’s revealed to be gay. This mcled himbo is gay. He’s not effemate, he don’t lisp or do his nails — he’s almost the exact oppose of the old homosexual stereotype.
Mch is a great gay reprentatn bee he rrectly reprents that gay people are people, and they have facets, differenc and don’t f to a tegory. He really blasts away that le that too many of hear: “You don’t look gay!
PARANORMAN CREATORS DISCS THEIR GROUNDBREAKG GAY CHARACTER
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Not that some gays aren’t effemate. But that’s jt the thg, we’re all different sorts this muny, and havg a character that was built around a set of archetyp that are ually straight, but then addg that he’s gay as a si note had this wrer celebratg.
Gay Reprentatn In Different Flavors.
The way he’s revealed to be gay is que nice, too. Gay reprentatn is out there, but to portray a character who’s gay as a big, happy bte is a rare treat. But maybe his character hs jt a ltle close to home when you are a mcled, gay weightlifter who’s sometim a ltle air-head!