For years,
advocates of the gay rights movement have said that their goal is to make the
world a more tolerant place for homosexuals. They have just as adamantly
claimed that they had no intention of educating young children in the
complexities of human sexuality. Not so in Hollywood.
Take, for
example, the new animated film Boxtrolls, created by studio Laika. The
film is a riff on the old Mrs. Doubtfire morality that suggests that all
families are created equal, no matter what their composition. “Families come in
all shapes and sizes,” the narrator of the preview says. “Even rectangles.”
This is not the
studio’s first foray into same-sex material for children – in ParaNorman,
one of the characters was a gay jock who comes out near the end of the film for
no apparent reason.
Travis Knight,
the 39-year-old president and CEO of Laika, says that this isn’t activism.
“We’re not in any way trying to be activists,” he says. “We’re just trying to
be who we are. All art and all artists have a point of view, a way of looking
at the world. We want to make films that are bold and distinctive and enduring
and actually have something meaningful to say.”
That is nonsense.
Activism is pushing a point of view in your work.….To Read More…..
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