“Paranorman ” is a 2012 stop-motion animated horror comedy film directed by Sam Fell (Flushed Away, 2006) and Chris Butler (Missing Link, 2019), and for many is a Halloween staple. And for some, spooky films are never out of season. It’s a great blend of spooks and comedy, has a fairly accurate take on the Salem witch trials, and uses kickass imagery to display New England’s beautiful scenery. But I’m not obsessed with New England. You’re obsessed with New England.
Set in the fictional town of Blythe Hollow, Paranorman follows the story of Norman, an 11-year-old boy who can speak to the dead. This alienates him from family and schoolmates, leaving him an outcast from all but his friend Neil Downe and his grandmother’s ghost. But he’s quite suddenly thrust into being the town’s sole savior when the dead rise at sunset, and he’s the only one who can (and will) do anything about it. It feels like a cheesy 1980’s horror film fell into a stop motion bath.
Although I do love the dynamic between Norman and his friend Neil, I actually think the best, most well-written character in this film is Neil’s brother Mitch. Mitch is your typical 1980’s jock character:
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He’s shown to love cars, lift weights, and has some of the funniest, stupidest lines in the movie. He even admits in one scene that’s he’s dumb and he knows it.
And at the very end of the film, he’s revealed to be gay. This muscled himbo is gay . He’s not effeminate, he doesn’t lisp or do his nails — he’s almost the exact opposite of the old homosexual stereotype. Mitch is a great gay representation because he correctly represents that gay people are people, and they have facets, differences and don’t fit into a category. He really blasts away that line that too many of us hear: “You don’t look gay!”.
Not that some gays aren’t effeminate. But that’s just the thing, we’re all different sorts in this community, and having a character that was built around a set of archetypes that are usually straight, but then adding in that he’s gay as a side note had this writer celebrating.
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His voice actor, Casey Affleck, definitely has some controversies to his name. But I feel like this doesn’t detract from what a great job the writers did in creating Mitch’s character.
The way he’s revealed to be gay is quite nice, too. Norman’s sister Courtney, who’s been flirting with Mitch the entire film, asks him if he’d like to go see and movie. Mitch’s reply?
I especially love Courtney’s deflated reaction. To me, she reacts just like he said he had a girlfriend. She’s disappointed. It isn’t played for a huge shock reaction. It’s treated like it’s normal.
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Gay representation is out there, but to portray a character who’s gay as a big, happy brute is a rare treat. But maybe his character hits just a little close to home when you are a muscled, gay weightlifter who’s sometimes a little air-headed!
And this isn’t the first spooky movie with LGBT representation, although it is shown in a much happier, modern light in Paranorman.
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Previous ReadingSo You’ve Been Quarantined: 19 Movies to Catch Up on for Each Streaming ServiceNext ReadingSo You’re STILL Quarantined: ANOTHER 19 Movies to Catch Up on for Each Streaming ServiceYou know the moment: Norman’s cheerleader sister Courtney (voiced by Anna Kendrick), having spent half the film cooing over Neil’s jock brother Mitch (Casey Affleck), wraps up the evening by asking the football hero for a date. Nothing fancy, just a movie. Mitch, aloof as ever, misreads the invite and reveals that his boyfriend loves “chick flicks.” Cue rimshot.
It’s a tired joke, a zinger that was already creaky when it was recycled earlier this summer, when it served as a punchline in the music video for Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” But here’s the thing: it’s a joke that appears in a heavily marketed family film. Kids across the country are dragging their parents to see a strange animated horror-adventure yarn, and they’re winding up watching the first openly gay character in a kiddie flick.
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Is too good to be reduced to merely “a kiddie flick.” Its appeal is wide; anyone of any age with a hunger for knockout visuals and terrific storytelling will find much to love here. Butler and co-director Sam Fell keep the subversion going elsewhere, twisting the story into places we don’t expect, while crafting a story that’s
The throwaway nature of the joke is key, not because the filmmakers are trying to slide something past us, but because the quick punchline is played with such flippancy it renders the character’s sexual orientation otherwise irrelevant. In the world of
, Mitch is gay and everyone’s fine with it. This ties in with the movie’s lessons about bullying and fear of those who are different, but it does so subtly, quietly. Maybe it’ll plant a seed in the minds of some younger viewers, who might begin pondering,
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This alone is a very, very cool thing. But here’s even something cooler: the nature of the joke suggests Mitch is out. He’s completely casual about talking in public about his boyfriend. How’s
Gay. That’s a hell of a role model to toss to teens lurking in the closet, and could very well help lead to a generation which has no use for the closet.
I’d like to think we’re on our way to that generation. Some of their parents might object (as this depressing IMDB message board suggests), but at the screening I attended, not one kid seemed to mind. After ninety minutes of watching a study in intolerance and fear, that’s the perfect way to react.
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