We could tell you about the spin-off of toy story telling you that the music is ideal, that the story is very entertaining and that, according to the Espinof experts, Lightyear it’s a great sci-fi movie.
But there are times when the form and background are hidden by the context, and this is just the case. The magic that Pixar has shown counting Buzz Lightyear’s origin storyhas been blurred by everything that is surrounding the film and that has to do with a concept that should never be associated with cinema, much less with a cinema aimed at children: homophobia.
The controversy of Lightyear
It all started with something that still seems insane to us that it became controversy: the film has a lesbian kiss. The LGBTQ+ relationships They are part of life and therefore of cinema and series, just as heterosexual relationships do. No one is shocked to see a kiss between Aladdin and Yasmine, but some members of society cry out in heaven if the one kissing is two female characters.
In this way it has become the first Pixar film to include a kiss between two characters of the same sex (a homosexual couple already appeared in this short), after Disney initially thought of withdrawing it. according to us explained in Sensacine “Studio employees criticized Disney in an open letter for its lack of reaction to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida.
As a result of this public denunciation, it has been possible to see the film with the kiss, although without avoiding controversy and censorship in 14 countries in the Middle East and Asia that have not shown the film in their theaters because it seems “dangerous”, when it really is Dangerous is your way of thinking.
Informativos Telecinco became viral on social networks with the video of the news of this censorship, and with his way of showing support for what is nothing other than the normalization of love that the director of the film Taika Wakiki already spoke about.
I loved how they have dealt with the controversy of #Lightyear David Cantero and Isabel Jiménez. pic.twitter.com/jZLOb2eYzg
– Oscar✵ 💫🕊 (@oscba1) June 20, 2022
The memes of Lightyear
Twitter lashes out at homophobia the way it knows best, meme in hand. We will not put tweets from those who have assured that they will not take their children to the movies because they do not want them to become gay when they see the movie (there are some, no matter how retrograde, absurd and ridiculous that statement may be), but we will make room for those who have been against that ridiculous statement using humor and sarcasm:
35 years of my life watching heterosexual couples kiss in movies or series and I have never felt the desire to become heterosexual, but it turns out that a kiss between two girls in the movie Lightyear is going to create an army of lesbians that will destroy the world.
– Ibai (@Ibai_A) June 20, 2022
Buzz Lightyear watching how they are shocked by a lesbian kiss in his movie. pic.twitter.com/UwvO9YuuOG
— Gon Curiel (@GonCuriel) June 19, 2022
Comparisons of what happened to them before and after seeing the Pixar movie:
Entering the cinema // Leaving the
Let’s see #Lightyear cinema pic.twitter.com/zM0NfLNM0v— Alexander* (@AlejVillalobos) June 18, 2022
They clearly came out of seeing #Lightyear https://t.co/3HrYDKuqn1
— Carolina Iglesias🏳️🌈 (@percebesygrelos) June 20, 2022
10 year old boy leaving to see Lightyear pic.twitter.com/4vGJAvwhj2
— ksio (@KsioEstaCogido) June 21, 2022
And endless memes and reactions that take over Twitter day after day and that are a wonderful display of humor.
Did you know that originally the movie Brokeback Mountain was going to be about two cowboys who, while taking care of cattle, betray each other and try to kill each other?
but halfway through the film it was decided that they would fall in love. this is because her director Ang Lee went to see Lightyear on her day off. pic.twitter.com/fbB62uAxjf
— poulainne (@akapoulainne) June 21, 2022
A sign that society has normalized any relationship in the cinema and that only a few who make a lot of noise are the dinosaurs that will disappear. The normal thing is to love no matter who and it was time for Pixar and Disney to reflect it in their movies as well.
Photos | Disney