I went Thursday night at 7 pm, the first showing. It was 90% filled in Green Bay Wisconsin. The audience was 80% female. I took two teenage daughters and my wife. The show was offered every half hour from 7 PM to 11 PM. And the students got in for $5. My daughters wanted to see this movie because of Emma Watson mostly, plus Ariana Grande and John Legend.
If you were not told that one character was gay you would not have noticed it. The part was a silly little dancing, singing person in the first movie. To declare the character was gay is not a stretch. And not important to the movie.
Look, you guys don’t realize it but Harlequin Romance books have been selling in the millions for a hundred years. They provide a happy ever after romance formula that woman have been buying and still do buy. And while you never see them, they are snapped up by the women in your life, in one form or another because they have romance, boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl frets, boy girl struggle, girl gives in. Whether its TV, Movie, books or the national enquirer you can’t argue the fact that lots of women want it.
The boy and girl don't like each other.
Then they see the good qualities in each other.
They fall in love.
A crises happens and they break up.
The crisis is resolved and they live happily ever after.
You can tell romance books are popular by looking at how big the section for them is in used book stores. We have a lot of Mennonites in the area and they seem to particularly like them, as many don’t get their female romance fix by electronic media.
My only point was that the popularity of a live action musical love story isn’t going to be driven by men. No matter the amount of gayness, a tiny unimportant amount or abject homo-erotic plot points, a normal male isn’t going to be pumped for love story musicals.
Freegards
My mom after my dad died read those western soft erotic romance novels
But purposeful insertion of homosexuality into a children’s film is a whole nother matter
And no offense to you
But the fact that on a conservative forum several folks don’t seem to care and gave Disney their cash anyhow is the most troubling aspect of all
It all started quit harnessing fags or sissies nearly 50 years ago
Now look where we are now with trans crap and bathrooms and abolition of religious and assembly freedom and where homosexuals are now afforded victomhood privilege same as any other non white non Christian group
I would not have gone to see that movie or taken my family simply on principle
You watch it’s the nose in the tent
It’ll explode now