Is #MeToo having a big effect on video releases of movies that were made long before the movement started? You be the judge:
A controversial casting-couch scene in #ToyStory2 has reportedly been deleted in home-entertainment releases.
That likely means it also won’t appear on the streaming version of the film when Disney launches Disney+ in November. https://t.co/r13TH3JBaY
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) July 3, 2019
Here’s the scene in question that’s being edited out of Toy Story 2:
The #ToyStory2 clip features Tom Hanks’ Woody interrupting a meeting between Stinky Pete & Barbie dolls inside a toy box.
Pete (a villain in the film) ogles, strokes, suggestively talks to the dolls and implies that he can get them parts in “Toy Story 3" https://t.co/r13TH3JBaY pic.twitter.com/PA8u6jOxkS
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) July 3, 2019
Disney is reportedly trying to memory-hole that part of the movie’s closing credits:
The deletion was first noted when Disney re-released the "Toy Story" trilogy on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD & digital HD formats ahead of #ToyStory4’s release in June.
It looks like Disney recognized that its mere suggestion no longer had a place in its films https://t.co/r13TH3JBaY pic.twitter.com/b9uV3qpp2S
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) July 3, 2019
This marks the latest in Disney’s recent history of course-correcting — from updating its Pirates of the Caribbean ride to updating stereotypical narratives for iconic princesses (as seen in the live-action “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast” remakes) https://t.co/r13TH3JBaY pic.twitter.com/i7EFZnLvRg
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) July 3, 2019
The entertainment industry is on it:
Yes, to be clear, a scene *exposing* the sick culture of Hollywood is deemed offensive and deleted. Nice work @Disney https://t.co/414JSWXAJt
— (((Aaron Worthing))) (@AaronWorthing) July 3, 2019
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Wow.
I don't care.
they're only doing this to make themselves feel good. https://t.co/oI4fNDoP5t— Jake Johnson (@JacobyJ56) July 3, 2019
Because of the entertainment industry’s discomfort with Hollywood’s hypocrisy, it appears that humorous scenes in animated movies (and even other films) from the past might have to get flushed in response:
Also known as the biggest laugh of the entire film.
— JustJude??Loves USA no matter who's POTUS (@surfthespectrum) July 3, 2019
I remember this.
It was just a joke.
They're literal Barbie dolls.
— Mathisn’t My Best Subject (@AfroStorm318) July 3, 2019
You CANNOT be serious with this nonsense https://t.co/243VzlvlAS
— Mooreso (@Mooreso1981) July 3, 2019
It’s like the best blooper at the end. That’s all the scene was meant for— a gag. It’s not meant to be taken seriously ?
— Anthony Pinzone (@apinzone12) July 3, 2019
It’s becoming clear that “jokes” are increasingly unwelcome and threatening.