From: Emailaaronainsley@countermail.invalid
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:15:11 -0400, VD wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:11:20 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:
>
>> VD submitted this idea :
>>
>>> Another Disneyesque adaptation about AIDS and its sufferers?
>>
>> 8-o
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> There's a strong contingent of critics, of which I am one, that
> believes one of the strongest if not the main focus of Disney's BATB
> is about homosexuality and AIDS, both beasts of mental and physical
> burdens.
>
> I kid you not. ;)
>
> Some telltale signs are obvious: the film is dedicated to Howard
> Ashman, the song lyricist and creative genius behind it, who died of
> AIDS before the film was released. Then there was that song ´Kill the
> Beast,ˇ which seemed like an indictment of the vigilante mentality
> that had taken root in America in the early 90˙s as parents lashed out
> at the AIDS-afflicted children in their neighborhood schools. And
> what was the Beast˙s affliction exactly? He wasn˙t a werewolf. And
> what about Gaston, that hyper-masculine figure who seemed to satirize
> the vain, gay bodybuilder and bathhouse culture of the 80˙s? Finally,
> there was that evocative red rose, with its petals falling, that
> seemed like the life blood ebbing away in the lives of AIDS and HIV
> patients in our communities.
Reach...
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