Pixar's Big Gay Disaster – Will Disney Ever Learn?

It takes a lot to shock me nowadays.

It really is not often I read something and have to read it twice to make sure that I read it correctly. But that’s what happened when I read this recent piece in the Hollywood Reporter.

It’s an analysis of why ELIO the most recent animated movie made by Pixar/Disney bombed at the box office.

The headline says a lot but believe the story got a lot worse.

Yes. There “queer themes” were in a movie about an 11-year old boy that was aimed at the children’s market.

And the queer themes were so prominent, that when they were removed as the sub-headline states, “Elio just became about totally nothing.”

So basically they made the children’s movie so gay centered with so much propaganda that hen they were forced to remove the “queer themes”there was no movie left.

The Hollywood Reporter added that:

“According to multiple insiders who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, Elio was initially portrayed as a queer-coded character, reflecting original director Adrian Molina’s identity as an openly gay filmmaker.”

It gets even worse. They were going to show the 11-year-old boy who was the hero of the movie as have ing a "male crush”in his bedroom.

The Hollywood Reporter continued,

“But either way, this characterization gradually faded away throughout the production process as Elio became more masculine following feedback from leadership. Gone were not only such direct examples of his passion for environmentalism and fashion, but also a scene in Elio’s bedroom with pictures suggesting a male crush.”

That’s right. They thought it was ok to sexualize a 11-year-old boy.

Apparently the queer themes were removed from the movie after a series of red flags arose from audience screenings.

"The writing was first on the wall for the troubled production when the film from Molina, known as the co-director of Pixar’s Oscar-winning 2017 hit Coco, conducted an early test screening in Arizona. Although viewers expressed how much they enjoyed the movie, they were also asked how many of them would see it in a theater, and not a single hand was raised, according to a source with knowledge of the event. This sounded alarm bells for studio brass."

So Pixar fired the director and cut and rewrote the movie.

But as the headline says, when you took out the queer themes, there was nothing left.

This is basically an admission that the original ELIO was a piece of grooming propaganda and not the storytelling that Pixar used to be known for.

Let’s hope Pixar/Disney learn the right lesson.

The Hollywood Reporter piece suggests that the film might have performed better if they had kept the queer themes. Highly unlikely.

It’s more likely that ELIO would have been a success if the writer/director had wanted to tell a story not push sexual propaganda to children. When that was removed there was no story left to tell.