Character in beauty and the beast gay
In , live-action Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon and actor Josh Gad praised Gad’s portrayal of LeFou — Gaston’s trusty sidekick — as Disney’s first openly gay character. When the movie came out, however, LeFou being "openly gay" simply meant that there was a brief shot of him dancing with a man in one of the feature’s final scenes.
This weekend, Gad acknowledged that LeFou’s depiction on-screen wasn’t enough to earn them credit for showing Disney’s first openly gay character.
“We didn’t go far enough to warrant accolades,” Gad said to The Independent (via Variety). “We didn’t go far enough to say, ‘Look how brave we are.’ My regret in what happened is that it became ‘Disney’s first explicitly gay moment’ and it was never intended to be that. It was never intended to be a moment that we should laud ourselves for, because frankly, I don’t think we did justice to what a real homosexual character in a Disney motion picture should be.”
The moment is one that Gad now looks advocate to with regret. “That was not LeFou,” he added. “If we’re going to pat ourselves on the back,
Beauty and the Beast Was an LGBT+ Story Distant Before LeFou
There was a great deal of controversy six years ago when Disney announced that the live-action remake film of Beauty and the Beast would feature the "first openly gay moment" in any Disney film. Bigots protested, but so did the LGBTQ+ community when the film was released and the moment was only a brief flirtation involving the comedic-relief traits LeFou. However, much of the controversy missed the LGBT+ messages of the original feature. Composed with intent by Howard Ashman, the film was an intentional reflection on the LGBT+ experience during the AIDS crisis, transforming the tale as old as time for the s.
While the original fable can be read as an allegory for the woman's experience at the occasion, the Disney film invoked the feelings of the LGBT experience in Credited in a piece from Observer as an architect behind the Disney Renaissance in the s, (also the composer of Little Mermaidand Aladdin), Ashman was a big part of how Disney got endorse on its feet at the time and position many of the conventions of
'Beauty and the Beast's 'gay moment' may have been much ado about nothing
Spoiler alert! The accompanying contains spoilers for the remake of Beauty and the Beast.
So that was it, huh?
That's what many moviegoers are saying after seeing Disney's latest live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast. They're not talking about the overall film, which is getting great reviews (three out of four stars from USA TODAY) and breaking box office records with a $ million debut, the highest ever for March and the seventh-highest of all time.
The underwhelmed reaction has been to the so-called "exclusively gay moment" in the film, which has caused international controversy since director Bill Condon first mentioned it in an interview with Attitude magazine.
In the interview, Condon said the character LeFou (Josh Gad) would be portrayed as same-sex attracted. This caused the clip to get shelved in Kuwait and Malaysia, to be given a stricter rating in Russian theaters and to be boycotted by one Alabama drive-in.
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I couldn't agree more. I always cringe when I notice labels being thrown around on the news and such. I wouldn't desire to always be prefaced with "white-female-Irish-Slovak-American." Who cares?kingricefan said:
I, too, long for the day when there isn't a label position in front of a character or person i.e. a black person, an Asianperson, a gayperson, etc. We're all people, right?Click to expand
I also kind of desire it had just been allowed to happen instead of being announced. As it is still a fairy tale movie appropriate for young audiences as well as old, I'm sure whatever the vast "moment" is, it's not going to be very, um, graphic, or anything, lol. And I'm also sure that it won't matter one way or another to a expansive majority of the audience. There was a cute obviously gay character in Frozen, too (Oaken), and look at what a blockbuster that was.
As a child of the 80s/90s who was obsessed with all the Disney Renaissance movies as they were first introduced, I was pretty skeptical about this remake (to quote Cogsworth in the original, "if it'