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Disney-Pixar's Lightyear, with same-sex kiss, will not play in 14 countries
SINGAPORE - At a recent push conference, actors Chris Evans and Taika Waititi held their land over the inclusion of a same-sex kiss in their animated film Lightyear.
That scene has caused the film to not perform in 14 Asian and Middle Eastern countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates.
And in Singapore, it received an NC16 rating from the Infocomm Media Training Authority – the highest for a film from the Pixar animation studio. This would restrict entry to those aged 16 and up. It opens here on June
American actor Evans, 41, responding to a scrutinize about the show of care between the same-sex couple, says that films should “absorb the times and reflect it outward”.
In Lightyear, Evans plays the title character of the space explorer Buzz Lightyear. In the Toy Story universe, this movie inspires the creation of the toy of the same name initiate in the Toy Story clip franchise ( to ).
In the film, Buzz's close friend is a female space r
Fuel bills are through the roof and times are challenging. Are you going to spend roughly £30 taking your kids to view Lightyear at the cinema, or remain until it lands on Disney+ sometime in August? Of course, you may have already cancelled your Disney+ subscription after recent controversies surrounding their gradual agenda. If that’s you, Lightyear is not going to change your mind.
This is the feature that famously contains Disney’s first queer kiss. But homosexual relationships is not what the feature is really about. Lightyear is not about how our masculine, muscle-bound hero Buzz Lightyear needs to be more liberal and absorb to accept people as they are. When his optimal friend, Alisha Hawthorne, kisses her wife, it is concise and Buzz doesn’t bat an eyelid. The story fast moves on.
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Yet conservative Christian commentators have been very angry about the inclusion of any same-sex attraction in a children’s production, no matter how short or incidental to the storyline. In response, liberal commentators have made fun of their consternation, unable or unwilling to spot
Disney-Pixar’s latest animated escapade is about to hit our cinema screens. It’s the origin story of one of their most beloved characters – Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear. In the lead-up to its emit, online speculation soared after it was confirmed that Lightyear would include the company’s first same-sex kiss. The film’s producer, Galyn Susman, stated that the female character Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, is in a “meaningful” relationship with another woman and a touch occurs between them.
In response, several countries – including the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Egypt and Indonesia – recently announced they would be banning Lightyear from cinemas due to its “violation of their country’s media content standard” (in small, the inclusion of Gay themes).
Susman responded by saying that no scenes would be cut, adding: “It’s great we are a part of something that’s making steps forward in the social inclusion capacity, but it’s frustrating there are still places that aren’t where they should be.”
Disney’s complicated LGBTQ+ history
While this may seem pa
Countries are censoring the recent Buzz Lightyear movie over a same-sex kissing scene. It’s not the first time that Disney has faced LGBTQ backlash
Lightyear, which opens in the U.S. and global markets on Friday, stars Chris Evans and tells the tale of the astronaut behind Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear. It features a character named Alisha Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, who is in a relationship with another girl.
As a result of its LGBTQ+ content, the movie has been banned or censored in several countries across the globe.
On Monday, the agency in control of media censorship in the Together Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Twitter that Lightyear violated the country’s media content standards, and as a result is not licensed for public assessing.
Film censorship agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia hold also flagged the production for review, the Brand-new York Times reported.
In Singapore, the film has been approved only for audiences over 16 years of age, according to the agency in charge of media regulation in the country. “While it is an excellent animated motion picture set in the