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Originally Posted by neatoman
(Post 2019535)
Why would they make him gay when his entire thing is wanting to get married to a woman?
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See, I'll explain.
Okay, so the post:
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Originally Posted by IMJ
(Post 2019531)
Oh! A new Disney adaptation!
They will reveal that Gaston was secretly gay with pent-up inner rage and self-anguish. By the end of the movie he will victoriously have blue-hair and sing a ballad about "his truth" as a black man in medieval French society.
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was a form of sarcastic satire. See, it was basically a "predictive" joke that was rooted in some degree of truth based on the previously existing patterns of the foolishness of the butt of the joke. In this case the butt of the joke was "Disney" given their recent history.
See? And so most well-adjusted people read the post:
Quote:
Originally Posted by IMJ
(Post 2019531)
Oh! A new Disney adaptation!
They will reveal that Gaston was secretly gay with pent-up inner rage and self-anguish. By the end of the movie he will victoriously have blue-hair and sing a ballad about "his truth" as a black man in medieval French society.
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and sort of internally process it with understanding that this is sarcasm dressed up in satire given the history of Disney and their nonsense over the last few years. See? And an example of someone who read the satire and understood it would be:
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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters
(Post 2019533)
This trend needs to stop.
No one makes-a-sympathetic-villain-turn like Gaston?
Probably the only feasible way this one got green-lit.
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and we know this because the response was not only dry and easy-going against the primary joke, but it flowed with it as well. A sign of comprehension!
But nowhere in the satire-based-on-past-behavior was there actually a deeply formative argument that "Gaston would be gay" this time.
And see, so when Andrew posts:
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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
(Post 2019532)
I doubt they'd do a full-on Gay Gaston movie at this point (maybe a few years ago they would've) but for sure it will be "queer-coded." :lol:
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He's sort of hiding behind the autist veil of digging in on a real reply to the topic, yet hedging that with more dry humor about "queer coding". Evidence that he also got the joke.
I hope this helps because when you say:
Quote:
Originally Posted by neatoman
(Post 2019535)
Why would they make him gay when his entire thing is wanting to get married to a woman?
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It sort of paints the picture that you didn't get it.
Big thumb's up for neatoman. I got your back, man. |
