Thanks to Luke Herczeg for allowing me to use his song cover in this video (watch to the end to hear it!). You can watch the full version here: ruclips.net/video/6SNZd02mMm8/видео.html
After last year's reveal by Pixar themselves that execs were constantly putting down instances of queer affection in their films following the Don't Say Gay bill fiasco in Florida, plus the general open secret that Pixar is primarily staffed with queer people in general in their workforce, it's probably a safe bet that Luca was always trying to lean on some sort of queer lens. What's especially interesting is how Luca and Turning Red share not only similar art styles and stories, but in a scrapped story beat, Turning Red was gonna have Mei have a cousin who not only had his own adolescent red panda awakening but was heavily implied to be queer too considering his character ended up being recycled to the Tyler character who is also still quite queer coded in the final film. This character described their situation as being "like an alien" to everyone. Mei and Miriam's interactions in Turning Red also have the same level of affection (although it's not nearly as focused) as Alberto and Luca do in their own film. Fast forward to D23 later in 2022 and we get the reveal of another Pixar film called Elio by Adrian Molina (a queer man) that is about a boy that doesn't fit in with his peers and gets sent to a camp before being "beamed up into space" where he meets other "aliens" that make him feel accepted. It helps to know that this film is also using a similar art style as Turning Red and Luca. If the metaphor isn't hitting, getting "beamed up into space" because your mom pushed you into that situation is a stand-in for using the internet to connect to fellow "aliens" (queer people) when you're not fully accepted for who you are. Pixar since 2017 has been trying to shift into stories that are more open and honest about queer people being not only incidental background characters but whole central characters who have issues that are related to their queerness without making that part of them be hyperbolic like you see in other instances of queer rep in media.
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Thanks to Luke Herczeg for allowing me to use his song cover in this video (watch to the end to hear it!). You can watch the full version here: ruclips.net/video/6SNZd02mMm8/видео.html
Awesome video mate, to me Luca's meaning is being open and honest about who you really are in front of society!
Nice! Thanks
After last year's reveal by Pixar themselves that execs were constantly putting down instances of queer affection in their films following the Don't Say Gay bill fiasco in Florida, plus the general open secret that Pixar is primarily staffed with queer people in general in their workforce, it's probably a safe bet that Luca was always trying to lean on some sort of queer lens.
What's especially interesting is how Luca and Turning Red share not only similar art styles and stories, but in a scrapped story beat, Turning Red was gonna have Mei have a cousin who not only had his own adolescent red panda awakening but was heavily implied to be queer too considering his character ended up being recycled to the Tyler character who is also still quite queer coded in the final film. This character described their situation as being "like an alien" to everyone. Mei and Miriam's interactions in Turning Red also have the same level of affection (although it's not nearly as focused) as Alberto and Luca do in their own film.
Fast forward to D23 later in 2022 and we get the reveal of another Pixar film called Elio by Adrian Molina (a queer man) that is about a boy that doesn't fit in with his peers and gets sent to a camp before being "beamed up into space" where he meets other "aliens" that make him feel accepted. It helps to know that this film is also using a similar art style as Turning Red and Luca. If the metaphor isn't hitting, getting "beamed up into space" because your mom pushed you into that situation is a stand-in for using the internet to connect to fellow "aliens" (queer people) when you're not fully accepted for who you are.
Pixar since 2017 has been trying to shift into stories that are more open and honest about queer people being not only incidental background characters but whole central characters who have issues that are related to their queerness without making that part of them be hyperbolic like you see in other instances of queer rep in media.
3rd!