whenever a liberal blames disney homophobia on china I blow up another AO3 datacentre
damm my stepdad is really homophobic. must be catering to the nefarious Chinese
it’s an absurd conspiracy. i use douban (like chinese letterboxd) to follow film reviews and there’s absolutely no lack of gayness in what’s released in china. like, moonlight was released in chinese theatres? and you can go on douban and find chinese gay people talking about all sorts of lgbt films? they’re not being censored. it’s all right there online.
people also like to point out some disney films doing poorly in china as a mark against them. but most westerners probably haven’t even heard of ne zha at all despite it being china’s most successful animated film, and they definitely haven’t heard about 30,000 miles from chang'an despite it being one of the best animated films i’ve ever seen.
it’s actually not that strange that disney isn’t always a huge hit in china. like, chinese films rarely get western attention, so why are you expecting western films to get so much chinese attention? especially when we all know disney’s been spamming out a crazy amount of pointless remakes lately?
but yeah anyway my top chinese film recommendation is angels wear white by vivian qu and everyone should watch it.