Hop (2011) and Gay Easter Bunnies, The Future Liberals Want? There are several societal discourses surrounding holidays and their figures. Was Jesus, a man born in a predominantly non-white area, white? Is Santa, a completely fictional character, allowed to be played by a black man? While those are things I could weigh in on, I’d like to introduce a new one. Based on the movie Hop (2011), I propose that the current Easter Bunnies are gay. Hop (2011) is a movie about a guy named Fred and how he became the first human Easter Bunny with the help of the next bunny in line, EB. These two main characters have mirroring storylines where they don’t live up to expectations placed by their fathers. These plot threads have similarities to a common cliché
…show more content…
Fred and EB kicked off their relationship with a “meet cute” when EB pretended to get run over by Fred, who then proceeded to try and put the bunny out of his misery with a rock only stopping when EB talks. This moment and the rest of the movie plays similarly to the 2007 film The Bee Movie, where a human learns an animal can talk then spends the movie helping that animal towards their goal (becoming a drummer in Hop, and suing the human race in The Bee Movie). In both movies the animals get their dream before realizing they need to go back and help their human friends, and confirmed love interest in the case of The Bee Movie. Along with this, in Hop when EB has his realization of helping Fred, he asks David Hasselhoff for advice, at the end of which Hasselhoff says, “Go to him,” which is a line said in the climax of many romance movies. This spurs EB on to save Fred, and after the final conflict says he wants to share being Easter Bunny with him. In this scene, EB’s father stands between the two soon-to-be Easter bunnies, both of them touching the egg as he says the words “By the power vested in me, I now pronounce EB and Fred O’Hare co-Easter Bunnies.” Very similar to a wedding ceremony in
Fred and EB kicked off their relationship with a “meet cute” when EB pretended to get run over by Fred, who then proceeded to try and put the bunny out of his misery with a rock only stopping when EB talks. This moment and the rest of the movie plays similarly to the 2007 film The Bee Movie, where a human learns an animal can talk then spends the movie helping that animal towards their goal (becoming a drummer in Hop, and suing the human race in The Bee Movie). In both movies the animals get their dream before realizing they need to go back and help their human friends, and confirmed love interest in the case of The Bee Movie. Along with this, in Hop when EB has his realization of helping Fred, he asks David Hasselhoff for advice, at the end of which Hasselhoff says, “Go to him,” which is a line said in the climax of many romance movies. This spurs EB on to save Fred, and after the final conflict says he wants to share being Easter Bunny with him. In this scene, EB’s father stands between the two soon-to-be Easter bunnies, both of them touching the egg as he says the words “By the power vested in me, I now pronounce EB and Fred O’Hare co-Easter Bunnies.” Very similar to a wedding ceremony in