tisdag 24 december 2019

Straight Space: Disney Cuts Lesbian Kiss from Star Wars



The last Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker features the franchise's first same sex kissing scene. Reviewers has described the scene as "a brief flash of two women kissing among a crowd of other characters".

Prior to the films premiere director J.J. Abrams hinted at a same-sex scene in interviews and said “In the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film.”  Even so the scene was critisised by people in the LGBTQ community for being a “blink-and-you-miss-it” disappointment. Most criticism went the other way though complaining of the scene being there at all. Abrams defended it by claiming it would be “insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”

Anyway, Disney choose to cut the scene from the Singapore version of the movie. Singapore does not recognize same-sex marriage, and sex between men is a crime, punishable by up to two years in prison, though the law is seldom enforced. There’s nothing in the law about sex between women though, There are gay bars and clubs in Singapore, as well as an annual pride rally but there are no protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

It is unclear if Disney cut the kiss in other countries. It was reportedly shown in China but not in the United Arab Emirate.

Bollocks I say. Let people love who they want. Disney should grow some balls and tell those people they either watch Star Wars the way it is presented or they don't watch it at all. It's a bloody kiss for f**s sake, and not a hardcore sex scene. But Disney probably only care about the money and nothing else.

Does Donald Duck wear pants in Singapore?



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