Shrek Movie Clips and Sound Files Shrek, Feona, Donkey, Gingy, Lord, Farquat, Pinochio, and many more In traditional festive legend, Santa Clauss reindeer pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. While the movie Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer has always been a hit, it has left some people wondering. Debbie wrote in to WBZs Curiosity Web page. The Gay Subtext of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Thinking back on the childrens Christmas specials of yore with an adult frame of reference can be a little bit dizzying. There is the suffocating consumerist melancholy of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the existential dread of a magical friends impending death in Frosty the Snowman, and the political allegory of Heat Misers rise to power that is A Year Without a Santa Clause. But nothing, absolutely nothing, is changed with a close, analytical reading of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the 1. I mean, just look at it Rudolph is totally, absolutely, 1. Neil Patrick Harris French kissing Ricky Martin gay. Anyone who even knows what Queer Theory is can tell you that the subtext of the narrative seems to be a pre Stonewall contemplation of the power of coming out and embracing sexual minorities into society at large. The film starts in the North Pole, where traditional gender roles are quickly reinforced. Mrs. Claus does all the cooking and nags her husband about not eating enough. The elves, identical in shape and apparel, are at work on Santas toys, the boys wearing blue and the girls wearing pink. KLg_iosllq8/hqdefault.jpg' alt='How To Watch Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer & The Island Of Misfit Toys Movie' title='How To Watch Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer & The Island Of Misfit Toys Movie' />Rudolph is born to Donner, who immediately hates his sons red nose and thinks that something so different will keep him from leading a heterosexual life where he pulls Santas sleigh and marries a nice doe someday. Rudolph goes along with his parents wishes and wears a black cap on his nose when he goes out to meet the rest of the reindeer for the first time. His father doesnt care how uncomfortable it makes him he is going to play reindeer games with the other boys just like hes supposed to. For a year the Donner family did a good job hiding Rudolphs  non conformity, the narrator tells us, pausing slightly before landing on the right euphemism. This is the closet of Rudolphs parents devising, which he goes along with thanks to the internalized homophobia that he inherited from both his father and Santa, the superego of the North Pole, who is equally distressed by Rudolphs difference. Santa even goes so far as to tell Donner that he should be ashamed of his son and try to change him. Its almost as if Santa is a church elder trying to force Rudolph into conversion therapy. Rudolph cant take it anymore and heads off into the wilderness to live alone. There he runs into Hermey the only elf with any hair, and its a flamboyant blond wave. He also has especially red lips, a feminine shaped face, and eyelashes any doll in Santas workshop would be jealous of. He speaks with a Paul Lynde cadence, as if his ascot is tied on a little too tight. Hes also signaled as different by his professional aspirations He wants to be a dentist rather than a toy maker. Its not that dentistry is especially queer or even the sort of creative job one would expect an open homosexual to have during the Johnson administration, but it hammers home that something sets Hermey apart from his conformist class. Unlike Rudolph, Hermey refuses to live in the closet, so he leaves Santas workshop and heads to the wilderness himself to open up his own dental practice. The woods the two explore could be equated to a traditional cruising ground, like the Rambles in Central Park or Hampstead Heath in London, both notorious for the availability of anonymous male on male sexual encounters. When Hermey and Rudolph run into each other, they reprise their song about being misfits, singing, seems to us kind of silly that we dont fit in. Now that these two young gay men have met each other, they realize that the oppression of sexual conformity theyve been living under their whole lives is a total sham. That sham is once again underscored when Yukon Cornelius enters those same woods. When he meets Rudolph and Hermey, they are both literally facedown in the snow with their asses in the air. Cornelius is what we would now call a bear, an older, hirsute gay man who embraces an over the top masculinity, despite being gay. Cornelius is the original lumbersexual, so much so that its shocking hes not wearing a buffalo plaid flannel shirt and a pair of excessively wide braces along with his traditionally macho workmans wear. The three of them head to the Island of Misfit Toys. The first person they meet is Charlie in the Box, the official sentry of the Island. If Hermey sounds like Paul Lynde, then Charlie sounds like Paul Lynde doing a Charles Nelson Reilly at Liza Minnellis bachelorette party. As the official sentry, he welcomes these three like minded gentlemen into a land where all people of difference are accepted and can flourish. We know its a land of otherness because when Rudolph, Hermey, and Cornelius spend the night, they sleep in a pink room with pink sheets and blankets, coded traditionally female. This is the gay community that all of these men find after leaving the closet behind. Rudolph goes along with his parents wishes and wears a black cap on his nose when he goes out to meet the rest of the reindeer for the first time. You can watch cartoon movies online for free with proper English translation. Directed by Larry Roemer. With Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, Larry D. Mann, Paul Soles. A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them. This is the family of their own making that they devise because their own biological families have rejected them. The problem with the Island of Misfit Toys is that they all long for the acceptance and embrace of society at large. The leader of the Misfits, King Moonracer, tells Rudolph to go back to Santa and convince him that toys like the Misfits are worthy of acceptance and inclusion as well. But Rudolph takes off in the middle of the night, still afraid that his very obvious red nose will bring the wrath of the Abominable Snow Monster, a fanged embodiment of violent homophobia. Rudolph returns to the woods and, as the narrator says, Rudolph would make a friend or two, but it wouldnt last long. Translation Rudolph is promiscuous and engaging in the sort of short term relationships that gay men were expected to have at the time. Eventually, Rudolph learns that the homophobia that was coming for him now threatens his parents and friends. He rushes to save his parents, but is knocked out by the untamable Snow Monster. Hermey and Cornelius swoop in to save them, with Hermey literally defanging the beast. They are essential in this confrontation The two prove to Santa, Donner, and the rest of the patriarchy that gay men can be useful to them, and just as masculine as anyone else. This renders the Snow Monster docile, tamable. He is welcomed into the society of the North Pole just as the rest of the former outcasts are, after they prove their worth. Their difference hasnt been extinguished, but straight people now know that the thing that makes Rudolph so rare is also the thing that can save Christmas. Its almost as if he is their own Carson Kressley, someone who is allowed to be as flamboyant as he wants as long as he isnt a threat to their way of life his gayness can even help transform them into something even more worthwhile. The biggest counterpoint to this reading is that Rudolph has a love interest the shockingly underdeveloped Clarice, who will go on to become an FBI agent who solves the string of Buffalo Bill murders. Just kidding, she doesnt do that. But Rudolph doesnt seem to willingly enter a relationship with Clarice and only starts to speak to her because the other boys urge him to. She represents the desires he is expected to have. This being the early 6. Rudolph cant be entirely gay. Once he proves he is macho enough for the sleigh, he is given a suitable reward a woman to marry and breed with under the auspices of matrimony. Cornelius and Hermey arent given similar whitewashings. Hermey is allowed to become a dentist and remains unattached. Cornelius, always the most passable of the bunch, gets to stay in the North Pole since his masculinity seems to have ushered in a live and let live, or at least a dont ask, dont tell chapter into the culture. 9 Full Divx Movies.