China blocked the screening of the film because it contains LGBTQ+ characters
Thor: Love and Thunderfourth film about the God of Thunder played by Chris Hemsworth, had its premiere banned from China for containing LGBTQIA+ scenes, becoming the sixth film from the studios to be banned for gender bias. The information is from The Hollywood Reporter.
The film follows lightyear (2022), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), West Side Story (2021) and eternal (2021) on a growing list of major Disney titles to be blocked by due to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ scenes, which often come into conflict due to homosexuality being officially illegal in much of the Middle East and Asia.
The country’s regulatory body points out as flaws in the script the scenes that briefly suggest that Valkyriecharacter of Tessa Thompsonis bisexual, and that Korg, played by Taika Waititiis gay.
During the exhibition of the films for the world producers, the Walt Disney Productionsnow responsible for Marvel Universewould not even have shown it to the censors, knowing that it would not pass uncut.
Sources from two major cinema chains in China told the specialized portal that Thor: Love and Thunder must even face the same fate as lightyearanimation of Pixarbanned in more than 10 Middle Eastern countries for homosexual scenes.
More on Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder hit theaters on July 7 and brings Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson back to the papers of Thor and Valkyrie, Besides Natalie Portman as Jane Foster and the debut of Christian Bale like the villain cap
Directed by Taika Waititifilm follows the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019) and counts with the participation of the team of Guardians of the Galaxy. The fourth God of Thunder movie is now in theaters nationwide.
Source: Rollingstone
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