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Inside Fox's strategy to market 'Love, Simon,' the first film of its kind...[Teen Homosexuality]
LA SLIMES ^ | 3/16/18 | T Anderson

Posted on 03/16/2018 10:39:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

..."The brilliance of the marketing for 'Love, Simon' lies in its honesty and in not shying away from the fact that the film is a gay teen romantic comedy," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for online measurement company ComScore. "While many films that have gay themes or a LGBTQ subtext often hide those elements in order to obscure the true message of the movie in order to make the film more 'commercial' or 'mainstream,' this film is rightly and innovatively celebrating and embracing its themes and point of view."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debasement; film; homosexuality
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I hope it fails.
1 posted on 03/16/2018 10:39:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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It won’t need our hope. It will fail most miserably on its own.


2 posted on 03/16/2018 10:42:13 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pull my thinger..er, finger.

At some point this incessant drumbeat of force fed politics is going to greatly turn off and diminish the available audience.

ESPN has noticed it; but the main purveyors of entertainment have not, yet.


3 posted on 03/16/2018 10:43:53 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Not shocking enough. His “big ass secret” is that he’s gay? It will fail.


4 posted on 03/16/2018 10:44:01 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hardly the first such film.

Look at film festival entries.


5 posted on 03/16/2018 10:44:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn thvictims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Has there ever been a sitcom with homosexual characters or homosexual themes that has succeeded?


6 posted on 03/16/2018 10:45:04 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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Inside Fox's strategy to market 'Love, Simon,' the first film of its kind...

Everyone involved in this needs to be beaten until they scream. In the 1950s, this would have gotten all involved put into jail.

This is sick, and beyond that it is just stupid. What is there idea of a target audience for a movie about a homosexual boy teenager wanting to find another homosexual boy teenager to do what homosexuals do?

I can identify no target audience (except the 1% of mentally ill people known as homosexuals) who would likely pay to see this.

Not only sick, but financially stupid.

7 posted on 03/16/2018 10:45:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

It may make some money, but nothing like its producers are hoping for.


8 posted on 03/16/2018 10:45:22 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: shotgun

If it does poorly, the activists will blame homophobia.

Isn’t it possible to just not want to see such a movie?

I’m not homophobic or bigoted, I just don’t want to see a homosexual themed movie.

I never saw Brokeback either.


9 posted on 03/16/2018 10:45:35 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: a fool in paradise

first major studio flick.


10 posted on 03/16/2018 10:45:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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...a gay teen romantic comedy...

Wow. Talk a bout a niche market...

11 posted on 03/16/2018 10:46:30 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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Has there ever been a sitcom with homosexual characters or homosexual themes that has succeeded?

"Will & Grace" comes to mind.

12 posted on 03/16/2018 10:46:53 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Blue House Sue

Soap.


13 posted on 03/16/2018 10:47:26 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Money before the welfare of our kids. Nice. I hope they lose zillions on this trash.


14 posted on 03/16/2018 10:48:26 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Dilbert San Diego

100% agree. Let the market decide.


15 posted on 03/16/2018 10:49:45 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: SoFloFreeper

They just ain’t gonna’ stop, are they?


16 posted on 03/16/2018 10:50:29 AM PDT by laweeks
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Modern Family.

Which BTW is AWFUL.


17 posted on 03/16/2018 10:50:42 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: Blue House Sue
Has there ever been a sitcom with homosexual characters or homosexual themes that has succeeded?

I think "Will and Grace" was considered successful, and I am told that one of it's main characters is a homosexual, but I don't know for sure, i've never watched a bit of it.

"Are you being served" was a British sitcom (from the 1970s) that lightly touched on the subject and featured a prominent character who was portrayed as probably homosexual. It was an ongoing bit of humor for them to speculate whether "Mr Humphries" was really "gay" or just effeminate.

18 posted on 03/16/2018 10:51:19 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Will there be discussion of rimming, felching, hooking up in public bathrooms, the myriad of diseases transmitted by the fecal oral route, shortened lifespans and child abuse by homo sex offenders? Or will all of the actual behavior be hidden in the closet?


19 posted on 03/16/2018 10:54:43 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Modern Family.


20 posted on 03/16/2018 11:00:41 AM PDT by carton253 (Jesus is everything.)
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