Conservativ are havg a f over news that a jocky character the new stop-motn film ParaNorman is gay. Nancy French grip at Natnal Review that "parents who take children to the new movie ParaNorman might have to answer unwanted qutns about sex and homosexualy on the way home om the movie theater" after the character, Mch, sually out at the end of the flick. William Bigelow at Brebart, meanwhile, tak the gurglg hysteria a step further and prents the plot twist as some kd of trick by nefar gays. "ParaNorman" has a character named Mch, who is, of urse, a heavily-mcled jock who seems heterosexual until the end of the movie, at which time a girl named Courtney asks him if he wants to see a movie. Sure, he says, you’ll jt love my boyiend, who’s to chick flicks. It’s a time-honored technique of the gay muny to hi the fact that a character is gay until the dience has veloped a real affy for him/her, then tch the dience off-guard by divulgg that the character is gay. Y, gays film should eher be twisted, pathologil villas or eccentric outsirs. Never, ever jocky or remotely likeable. If you haven't seen trailers for ParaNorman yet, I've clud one AFTER THE JUMP.
Contents:
- 'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- WHY PARANORMAN FEATURED THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER AN ANIMATED FILM
- 'PARANORMAN' SLIPS FIRST GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- ‘PARANORMAN’ MA HISTORY WH ANIMATN’S FIRST-EVER OPENLY GAY HIMBO 10 YEARS AGO TODAY
- LAIKA’S ‘PARANORMAN’ PRENTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- FANMAIL: GAY CHARACTER CHILDREN’S MOVIE PARANORMAN
- WHY PARANORMAN FEATURED THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER AN ANIMATED FILM
- RIGHT ATTACKS ‘PARANORMAN’ FOR FEATURG LIKEABLE GAY JOCK
'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 gay character *
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. This clus a greater potential for gay-tged humor or gay-d characters.
WHY PARANORMAN FEATURED THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER AN ANIMATED FILM
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 gay character *
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In the se of gay-d characters, reliance on ambiguy allows for multiple readgs of a character.
'PARANORMAN' SLIPS FIRST GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
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 gay 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. In this way gay dg works to a stud’s advantage.
‘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 gay character *
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.
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LAIKA’S ‘PARANORMAN’ PRENTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
Laika's 'ParaNorman' Prents First Openly Gay Animated Character * paranorman gay character *
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.
FANMAIL: GAY CHARACTER CHILDREN’S MOVIE PARANORMAN
A few parents fell out the theater this past weekend when a gay character "me out" the new children's film ParaNorman. One mom emailed me to get my rears thoughts on the movie dtry troducg homosexualy to children's films. The movie's producers hope to create a dialog about same sex relatnships between parents * paranorman gay character *
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. 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.
WHY PARANORMAN FEATURED THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER AN ANIMATED FILM
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As the DVD, Blu-Ray, and Ultravlet versns of ParaNorman today h stor and puters (and iPhon, if you get pocketBLU), we talked wh animatn's hottt dream team -- gay wrer/director Chris Butler and his (not gay) -creator, director Sam Fell -- abouttheir smash animated film. They also touch on The Breakfast Club, stop-motn animatn, and their so-lled gay agenda. And all of that means there are spoilers for those of you who haven't seen the story of a bullied kid, a pack of zombi, an ancient curse, and a gay Advote: I believe that ParaNorman is the first mastream animated film wh a ma character who is gay.
RIGHT ATTACKS ‘PARANORMAN’ FOR FEATURG LIKEABLE GAY JOCK
You look to your left there's the next set beg pated and you look to your right, there's a bunch of wigs beg veloped for a new character, so you're pletely immersed There's somethg liberatg as a director to actually pot at an object you're talkg about, rather than jt potg the fger at a Butler (left) and Sam FellI saw some of the small mols when I was at the premiere which was endlsly fascatg Mch, the gay character. I noticed a lot of parent blogs wrote somethg like, "Great film about tolerance, too bad had a gay character at the end.