Disney + | “Magic Secrets”: Short film with Disney’s first LGBT couple available for streaming

Some time ago, CinePOP was talking about the arrival of Pixar SparkShorts in the Disney + catalog. However, one absence drew attention. From the moment it arrived in Brazil, Disney + put virtually the entire collection of Pixar SparkShorts so subscribers could watch and resonate these most not-so-well-known name-making shorts in the animation market. However, the short film Out, famous for bringing in Disney’s first LGBT couple, was not included, causing controversy on the internet.

“Magic Secrets” tells the story of Greg and his puppy, which will help you understand yourself better.

And since there were countries abroad that had launched petitions demanding that the short film be removed from the catalog – the most significant had more than 29,000 signatures – some members of the Brazilian LGBT community protested against the service, asking why “Out” had not yet arrived in Brazil. Some people have even branded Disney as homophobic and things like that, believing the short has been deliberately taken off the platform. However, if even foreign petitions weren’t able to censor the story of Greg and his dog, that wouldn’t be the case in Brazil. As it turns out, the misunderstanding happened because the company adopted the weekly launch format. In other words, original content and old studio productions are added every week. Out, which arrived at Disney + Brasil on Friday (12/18), was included in the catalog under the name Segredos Mágicos.

To give voice to Disney’s first LGBT couple, the studio sought out an LGBT couple to voice the characters in Brazil. Photo: Playback / Twitter

In the plot of the short film, Greg is an ordinary man, whose life changes completely after winning a puppy. With the doguinho he gets a new perspective and comes to understand himself better as a person. And all the wait for the arrival of Magic Secrets was worth it, because, as the Disney Almanac points out, the Brazilian version of the short film brings in an LGBT dubbing couple, Lucas Gama and Fernando Mendonça, to give the floor. to Greg and Manuel. It was a wonderful idea, because nothing better than a short film on representativeness to exercise inclusion regardless of the country in which it is released.

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Launched around a year ago in the gringa, SparkShorts is reviving a type of content that has helped solidify Pixar in theaters: animated shorts. Anyone who was a kid in the 1990s and 2000s probably remembers the thrill of going to the movies to see a Pixar movie and being enchanted and entertained by an animated film that was shown before the feature film. Over the past few years, Disney Animations have also come up with short films, usually not as creative as Pixar’s, but still fun. Without needing to hit theaters, the creative minds behind SparkShots were then able to work on more conceptual and independent short films.

For Pixar president Jim Morris, the project is a way to find new ways to tell stories.

“The SparkShots program was designed to encourage the discovery of new storytellers, explore new ways of telling stories and experimenting with new production models. These films are unlike anything we’ve done at Pixar, offering an opportunity to expand the potential of independent artists and their creative filming and approaches on a smaller scale than we normally do, ”commented the president of Pixar, Jim Morris.

“Geri’s Game” is one of Pixar’s most famous and creative short films. In it, an old man is playing chess against himself in the square.

Following this idea of ​​creative, but not so megalomaniacal, films, the collection of seven short films is almost complete in the Disney + catalog. Meet the seven shorts and find out which ones are available!

Wind

This platonic short takes you to a different reality, where the situations are down to earth, but at the same time there is a magic behind it. In it, a boy and his grandmother are trapped in an abyss with no known end. Dreaming of living outside there, they collect different materials to be able to escape and live with quality far from the abyss.

Ribbons

The tapes are perhaps the least pleasant of the short films simply because it touches a reality very close to our world, but which still suffers from prejudices: autism. In the plot, two children are at the edge of a camping lake. The girl is autistic and appears to be isolated from other children. The boy arrives late and is directed by the instructor to team up with the girl so they can play with the canoes on the lake. Upset, the boy accepts the staging and ends up discovering several things about the girl. The girl is the first openly autistic Disney character to communicate non-verbally.

Float

In the plot, a father finds out that his baby is completely different from normal children, because he is able to float. Trying to prevent them from suffering retaliation and prejudice from other people, he decides to hide the baby’s abilities, which comes at great expense. Until things get out of hand and he has to decide between hiding from society and leaving the child to popular judgment or accepting his child as he is and giving him all the support he needs. The message hidden here is very clear and the short film is one of the most incredible in the series.

Kitbull

Using a more stylized animation that does not follow the basic pattern of Pixar animations, Kitbull addresses prejudice by showing the birth of a friendly relationship between two “rival” species in the wild: an aggressive kitten and a pitcher. bull bobalhão. Together, they find that even though they are in different positions in life, they don’t need to hate each other.

Smash and Grab

With a spectacular look, Smash and Grab even looks like an episode of the Love, Death & Robots anthology series. In the short film, two old robots, offline and without much labor value, have been working for years in the engine room of a gigantic locomotive. Tired of slavery, they will put everything at risk to put into practice the dream of freeing themselves from a life outside the engine room.

Purl

Ridiculously creative, thoughtful, and fun, Purl tells the story of a pompous ball of wool who feels sorry to find a job. In the chaos of everyday life, he finds a job in a start-up made up entirely of men. The pace of work is intense and the work environment is far from healthy. As he gets down to business, certain work situations start to arise and he has to decide whether he will tolerate these things being accepted by his office mates or stick to his ideals. After all, how acceptable are certain things to feel included?

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