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   Sirius Black to All   
   Re: Emma to Headline Guillermo del Toro'   
   23 Jul 11 13:16:29   
   
   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   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > 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...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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