'Lu' director "talked about" the film beg a gay love story - Metro Weekly

Contents:

• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
• HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
• DISNEY: I PROTAGONISTI L FILM PIXAR LU SONO GAY? RISPON IL REGISTA
• SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
• ‘LU’ DIRECTOR “TALKED ABOUT” THE FILM BEG A GAY LOVE STORY
• PERCHé è UTILE CHIERSI SE LU LLA PIXAR SIA O MENO UNA STORIA D'AMORE GAY
• LU: I DUE PROTAGONISTI L FILM SONO GAY? LA RISPOSTA L REGISTA
• DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

That outle holds an obv potential for queer allegory, and ed many Pixar fans trackg the film’s velopment quickly labeled Lu as the stud’s “gay movie”—a g-out story to be placed on Pixar’s mantle alongsi s medatns on grief, artistic exprsn, lonels, Ayn Rand-ian objectivism, and parentg. ” That suggts a limed unrstandg of gay growg up, particularly of when our feelgs of affectn and special closens and difference n first velop.

That character, played tartly but briefly by John McCrea, is slightly ls of a scrap than the embarrassgly ballyhooed “exclively gay moment” 2017’s Bety and the Beast—but Artie still barely registered amid Cella’s cynil clamor.

Last year, Disney punted Love, Victor—a seri spoff of the feature film Love, Simon, the first stud film about a gay kid g out—om Disney+ to Hulu, clarg the young adult show a better f for that more grownup streamg service. Greg Gayne/HuluThe first season of Love, Victor very much felt like a show tend for Disney+ that somehow wound up alongsi Handmaid’s Tale. Love, Victor season two admirably exam life post-g out, as Victor (Michael Cimo) navigat his nascent relatnship wh barista Benji (Gee Sear) and tri to get his mother, Isabel (Ana Ortiz, queen of playg TV moms of gay kids), to fully accept his inty.

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

Victor and Benji grapple wh tra-gay nflicts jt as much as they do wh the wary nsiratns of the straight world.

DISNEY: I PROTAGONISTI L FILM PIXAR LU SONO GAY? RISPON IL REGISTA

When director Enri Casarosa says he didn’t tend to make Lu a gay romance, I believe him. OK, but isn’t still a ltle b gay? Still, there have been so many siar discsns about queer inty Disney movi that you n almost predict the disurse ahead of time: “They’re gay!

SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY

” “But why do they have to be gay? ” “But why n’t they be gay?

For both live-actn and animated movi, the stud has overhyped what have bee known as “exclively gay moments, ” ty morsels of reprentatn that are eher so subtle you hardly notice them (a kiss between two women the background of a Star Wars movie) or so plot-irrelevant that they n be easily chopped or overlooked by ternatnal censors (here’s lookg at you, Endgame’s unnamed Grievg Man). Meanwhile, while Disney has ngratulated self and claimed to blaze new trails, plenty of other animatn studs have been ahead of them: Laika’s ParaNorman, for example, featured an openly gay character way back 2012.

Ironilly, the Disney movie that gave the term “exclively gay moment” the first place took a different tack: The live-actn Bety and the Beast’s LeFou is more the spir of the stud’s long-standg tradn of strongly queer-d, if not explicly gay, villas.

‘LU’ DIRECTOR “TALKED ABOUT” THE FILM BEG A GAY LOVE STORY

Fans have sce picked up on homoerotic unrton Raya and the Last Dragon and the live-actn Mulan, but the movi rema rabow Rorschach tts, wh dienc havg to read between the l or project their own meangs to fd queer reprentatn. How gay is ?

PERCHé è UTILE CHIERSI SE LU LLA PIXAR SIA O MENO UNA STORIA D'AMORE GAY

Whatever the director’s stated tent, the answer seems to be: as gay as you want to be. Lu is marketed as a "metaphor for anythg" but the sea monster setup is a perfect allegory for a gay story, and LGBTQ viewers n read that way.

Lu has arrived on Disney+ and, spe what Pixar says, the movie prents a strong allegory for growg up gay and fdg a nnectn wh other LGBTQ people. This elis the fact that beg gay, queer, or LGBTQ+ is not simply a matter of partners or relatnships or sex.

LU: I DUE PROTAGONISTI L FILM SONO GAY? LA RISPOSTA L REGISTA

Young gay people often feel very different om others before such feelgs velop, which n occur squarely the age bracket the story plac Lu and Alberto. In the ments, Casarosa is enuragg such terpretatn, meang that, if you see there, Lu is a gay story, Pixar's first feature film wh LGBTQ+ leads.

The parallels of the boys secretly beg sea monsters and gay and LGBTQ+ people beg forced to hi their inti cuts closer than other mory groups, ratnalizg a queer readg of the movie. So while Pixar ni Lu is a gay story due to s settg and the age of s characters, viewers should read the LGBTQ+ narrative for what is. I fan si chiedono se i protagonisti sono gay e iziano i meme.

(Fonte – Instagram)Disney: Lu e Alberto sono gay? #Luif alberto not gay why gaze lovgly at lu — shania (@mysunflouwer) June 19, 2021Non tutti pensano che il rtone abbia riferimenti alla muny LGBT+ perché il msagg non è sì evinte ma analizzando la storia si possono percepire i portamenti i personaggi che lo dimostrano.

DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?

Inoltre il personagg di Alberto è spso lto nel guardare Lu e FISHES GAY GOOD FOR THEM GOOD FOR THEM #Lu — ?nick ? is cryg over lu help (@nisq_) June 19, 2021I giri sulla loro vpa immagaria, le notti a guardare le stelle, sendo noi sono tutti segni di una splendida amicizia che si evolve una relazne dolcissima.

Parlano i registiIl regista non ha parlato di una vera relazne ma ha tto:I’m jt stg here after watchg #Lu unable to stop thkg about how was a metaphor for beg gay. When Pixar first revealed the plot synopsis of s upg movie Lu — a tale of two sea-monster boys named Lu and Alberto, and an “unfettable” summer on the Italian Rivera — many people quickly pared to Call Me By Your Name, the 2017 gay romance that also took place durg an unfettable summer Italy. But 2020, Pixar released “Out” through s SparkShorts program, which centered around a gay uple.

Eager for reprentatn, many fans have clung to the possibily that Lu might give them openly gay ma characters, and not jt one-note si characters. When Pixar first released the trailer for animated film Lu, LGBTQ viewers were quick to note more than a few siari wh Osr-wng gay drama Call Me by Your Name.