Pixar CCO defends cutting Elio's gay themes

[weed 76,884]

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/pete-docter-pixar-lgbtq-storyline-elio-therapy-1236681692/

 

The director of UP says they "didn’t want to expose its young audience to things they weren’t ready to see or hadn’t discussed with their parents."

Edited 3 hours ago by weed
changed CEO to CCO lol

[zevthepaparazzo 1,592]

4 minutes ago, weed said:

The director of UP says they "didn’t want to expose its young audience to things they weren’t ready to see or hadn’t discussed with their parents."

So being gay is not appropriate for young audiences?

the same way heterosexual sex isn't?

[weed 76,884]

Just now, zevthepaparazzo said:

So being gay is not appropriate for young audiences?

the same way heterosexual sex isn't?

Kids can understand running away with an old widower  having a crush on a boy as a boy, what da heck!!

[Jtn8 11]

This is why Pixar sucks now. 
It used to take on hardish subjects with dignity. Now just pretty pictures. 

[BrandyFinest 277]

Expect for more CEO's and the like to say drivel like this for upcoming years. 

 

Also I dont care what Pixar has to say about whats "appropriate for the kids!" or not,  isn't a major plot point at the start incredibles a failed suicide attempt?

IDK about you, but I'd rather show my kid gay people than attempted suicide ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[27monster27 15,089]

Pixar hasn't been a true cultural phenomenon for awhile now anyway. They can make as many sequels as they want to beloved classics. Their time is leaving, and hopefully the current situation they are in can push it further, though I fear for MAGAs backing.

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[BrandyFinest 277]

26 minutes ago, zevthepaparazzo said:

the same way heterosexual sex isn't?

don't forget that buzz lightyear boner innuendo in toy story 2. Het's can be sexual all they want while the most pristine and uncontroversial queer person is suddenly a sexual figure, and can only be talked about in a sexual context. I hate it.

[robotvoiceinalice 1,991]

it just feels like we've gone backwards interms of progress, and its really sad to see 

[LOVEDRUG 11,070]

39 minutes ago, Jtn8 said:

This is why Pixar sucks now. 
It used to take on hardish subjects with dignity. Now just pretty pictures. 

For a while now their films have just been a series of increasingly simplistic, uninspired ideas.

Elemental was literally "what if there were two people and one was made of fire and one was made of water?"

It's hard to believe it's the same studio that made WALL-E and Coco.

[Hadrian 1,164]

Braindead take. I didn't have to discuss being gay with my parents to know that I liked dudes.

[Lord Mayhem 2,930]

So seeing a boy have a crush on another boy would incite THERAPY??? Disney who tf hired this person?  

[hELXIG 44,491]

Okay another ****ing evil piece of **** that I want to see crumble 

Good thing I stopped streaming and supporting all these giant evil companies

F.UCK DISNEY

F.UCK PIXAR

Their artists and storytellers that work for them are genuinely talented people. But the companies themselves and the ones who run them are pure evil. I only stream the pirate way now so they don't get any money or engagement from me

 

[artdoll 46,884]

2 hours ago, weed said:

The director of UP says they "didn’t want to expose its young audience to things they weren’t ready to see or hadn’t discussed with their parents."

Almost like the inclusion of that scene would open up a discussion of that exact subject and allow children to learn that being in a non-heterosexual relationship is OK and completely normal. Not to mention it'd be a learning opportunity for said children to know that there are gay people in the world. 

[weed 76,884]

14 minutes ago, hELXIG said:

Okay another ****ing evil piece of **** that I want to see crumble 

Good thing I stopped streaming and supporting all these giant evil companies

F.UCK DISNEY

F.UCK PIXAR

Their artists and storytellers that work for them are genuinely talented people. But the companies themselves and the ones who run them are pure evil. I only stream the pirate way now so they don't get any money or engagement from me

 

Girl I wanted to still believe in Pixar after Disney bought them (even though I just googled and it happened in 2006 but somehow I have memory of being like "ew!" even though I was about 9 lol...) but whew they have fallen down the drain. 

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[phantasmas 11,520]

looked him up and he was born during the time of the Hays Code which had strict rules in place for film studios (no same sex relationships, no dissing the church, no white slavery) 

so im not surprised when old heads like him dont wanna see gay stuff on screen because they were told it was bad their whole lives 

not an excuse tho, just food for thought