Would you say the same thing if they would have taken a well known homosexual character and made him hetro in the remake
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kyliesca — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 09:27 AM)
I agree, the uproar and whole controversy about Sulu being gay in this movie is silly when you consider just how insignificant and subtle that little detail was in the actual movie itself. All of Sulu's homosexuality only amounted to just a few seconds of screen time in the entire movie and it was very easy to miss, if you don't pay attention, you might think it was just Sulu with his brother or something like that, and not a gay couple together.
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ecanarensis — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 04:04 PM)
Really, the only thing that bothered me about the (incredibly brief) scene was that they felt it necessary to end it by zooming in on the guys' arms around each other's waists. Might as well have had subtitles screaming "LOOK, WE MADE SULU GAY, ISN'T THAT COOL OF US?!?!?!?"
As for the furor about it, I'm not at all surprised. Tired & weary that so many seem to feel it necessary to fure, but not surprised. sigh -
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kyliesca — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 09:27 PM)
According to Simon Pegg, they wanted to include a gay character into this alternate Star Trek universe because ST is suppose to be inclusive, and they didn't want to just create a new character and make him gay because then that character would just be seen as the mere token gay character. So they wanted to turn a character whom we're all already familiar with gay, and they decided it would be Sulu, maybe it's because George Takei is gay, I don't know, but that's the decision they went with.