{"id":1754200,"date":"2022-11-28T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754200"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:49:15","slug":"woke-broke-america-says-no-thanks-to-disney-cartoon-with-gay-teenage-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-broke-america-says-no-thanks-to-disney-cartoon-with-gay-teenage-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke = Broke: America Says \u2018No Thanks\u2019 To Disney Cartoon With Gay Teenage Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoke-broke-america-says-no-thanks-to-disney-cartoon-with-gay-teenage-hero%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754200&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Remember when Disney just put out delightful movies full of fantastical adventures that everyone could enjoy?<\/p>\n<p>Pepperidge Farm remembers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how one website described a core part of Disney\u2019s new film, \u201cStrange World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMidway through the movie, Ethan and his grandfather share a quiet moment amid a mission to save their world,\u201d Mashable <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/strange-world-gay-hero\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe old man asks if the boy has a sweetheart. \u2026 I readied myself for the question that heteronormative media has trained me to expect: \u2018What\u2019s her name?\u2019 But instead, [Qui] Nguyen\u2019s screenplay dodges this trope and, with it, homophobia altogether. Instead, [the grandfather] says excitedly, \u2018Who is it?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just like that, the gendered expectation that his grandson\u2019s sweetheart is a girl is gone. The word \u2018sweetheart\u2019 itself is gender-neutral, meaning the possibility was cleverly baked into Nguyen\u2019s script. When Ethan answers, his grandfather, whom he\u2019s never met before, isn\u2019t shocked to discover the boy is gay. It\u2019s not an issue. It\u2019s not a thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that is incredibly exciting because this queer teen character isn\u2019t queer as a plot point. The movie is not exploiting his identity as a tool for trauma. Instead, Strange World acknowledges that gay kids can just exist in media and not have their identity treated like grounds for a teachable moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Disney, Americans said thanks but no thanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisney Animation\u2019s Strange World bombed with a five-day opening of $18.6 million after receiving a mediocre B CinemaScore,\u201d The Hollywood Reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/black-panther-wakanda-forever-box-office-strange-world-1235270031\/\">wrote<\/a> over the weekend. \u201cThat\u2019s the worst opening for a Disney Animation Thanksgiving title in modern times after getting pummeled by poor word-of-mouth, and the first of the studio\u2019s to earn anything less than an A- grade from CinemaScore. Overseas, it debuted over the weekend to $9 million from 43 material markets for a global bow of just $28 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>The new Disney film was expected to take in $30 million to 40 million over the long Thanksgiving holiday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disneys-strange-world-on-track-to-lose-100-million\">reported<\/a>. And the movie giant needs to haul in more than $350 million just to break even.<\/p>\n<p>One wag on Twitter broke down the movie\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Main character is gay\u2013 Biracial couple\u2013 No white People\u2013 Climate Change metaphor\u2013 Even the dog is disabled<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disney\/Pixar&#8217;s new leftwing propaganda film &#8220;Strange World&#8221; is bombing at the box office. <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Main character is gay<br \/>\u2013 Biracial couple<br \/>\u2013 No white People<br \/>\u2013 Climate Change metaphor<br \/>\u2013 Even the dog is disabled <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hi9FUBJjmn\">pic.twitter.com\/hi9FUBJjmn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rosie&#8217;s Offensive Dinner Guest (@DarnelSugarfoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarnelSugarfoo\/status\/1596062416214761472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But more than anything, it\u2019s just a bad movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much of Strange World\u2019s audaciousness is front-loaded into its concept, and so little of it comes through in the execution,\u201d Vulture reviewer Alison Willmore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/strange-world-review-disneys-audacious-new-animated-film.html?utm_source=flipboard.com&#038;utm_medium=social_acct&#038;utm_campaign=feed-part\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cIts themes linger in the mind longer than any line or emotional beat in part because those elements feel so rote and secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, the existence of the movie should be applauded, even or especially because it seems to have terrified its corporate overlords into burying an entry from the animation line, which has traditionally been the spine of the brand. But I\u2019m also tired of measuring social progress by Disney films and applauding the ungainly giant for slowly trudging its way toward the future,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad that politics and political correctness have infiltrated everything, right down to Disney, our favorite producer of children\u2019s movies. Let\u2019s hope they take to heart the lessons of the dismal opening of \u201cStrange World\u201d to heart \u2014 leave out all the silly PC stuff and just make a great film.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\">announced plans<\/a>\u00a0for kids entertainment content.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Disney just put out delightful movies full of fantastical adventures that everyone could enjoy? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Here\u2019s how one website described a core part of Disney\u2019s new film, \u201cStrange World.\u201d \u201cMidway through the movie, Ethan and his grandfather share a quiet moment amid a mission to save their world,\u201d Mashable wrote. \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1754203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}