My family just watched The Boxtrolls (I personally loved it) last night. My mother mentioned it to my conservative aunt who said she would never let her children watch it again because of the movie's "hidden agenda". It turns out that Christians are complaining that the movie promotes different families (the boy lives with a troll) and that the part where the trolls leave their boxes symbolizes coming out of the closet. I think it sounds like a load of bull. What's even funnier is that the Christians didn't complain about the main villain dressing up as a girl for half the movie.
Christians are crazy sometimes. I swear they find some "hidden agenda" in everything. No one complained about HIM from Power Puff Girls either, and he was a friggin cross-dressing lobster thing!
In Boxtrolls, wasn't there two guys who raised a kid? I haven't seen it yet, but want to. Also, didn't conservatives also dislike Frozen because apparently there was a hidden message of acceptance? I haven't seen Frozen yet either.
Most organized anything don't like something and then fight amongst themselves. Let them do what they do and we will watch the world go by. Just don't get caught up in their labeling mindset!
Yeah, I'm sure that Jesus fraternizing with a prostitute would also not meet their puritanical standards.
I haven't seen Boxtrolls yet but I really want to. I'm a big fan of Laika's previous films Coraline and ParaNorman. In ParaNorman there's a great gag where the jock character reveals he's gay. It was a pretty refreshing thing to see in a kid's movie. As for Boxtrolls and the "gay agenda," I haven't seen the film so I can't comment on that, but I recall in one of the early teasers there was an ad that went along the lines of "there are all kinds of families" and a gay couple is featured. (Which again, awesome!) But yeah I could see how this could ping homophobic viewers' radar whether the couple is featured in the film or not. The thing that gets me the most though is the whole "gay agenda" concept itself. What agenda? To have loving relationships and live our lives unbothered by others? Oh, horrors!
I think that people are looking into the Box Trolls too much. I heard some people call the movie trans phobic because the villain dresses up as a woman but I did not see that as a problem either. I just thought it was a nice and fun movie
Maybe nobody complained because Him was a villain with no obvious redeeming qualities. Bad guys can be campier than sleeping outside in line for a Cirque de Soleil show about Cher, but once the gays are portrayed as good or even neutral, people go batshit! ...Damn, that would be a good show...
They complain about many things... They said Frozen also had a "hidden homosexual agenda". Really, you can't win with these people. Btw, Boxtrolls was a good movie. Because it was a GOOD movie, and not because it had some 'hidden agenda'.
mandatory meeting to promote the gay agenda and conceptualize new ideas to reach broader audiences, next sunday
