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amazing how this 3,700 year old Babylonian legal code is making more sense than our current justice system
"Block this ad" isn't good enough, I need a feature that directly tells the company "this was so shit that it lowered my opinion of your product"
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Dir. Beeban Kidron
This was such a formative movie
This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.
To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.
This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.
Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.
If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.
Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.
And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.
And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.
When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.
Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.
“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”
And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:
And you can FEEL her pride.
All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.
the fact that some of you history-ignorant children in the notes are trying to shit on groundbreaking historical queer cinema because it doesn’t meet 2021 standards is infuriating. sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to the elders in the room for fucking once
This. If you have never lived in a world where queerness was universally pathologized and criminalized to the point that even IMAGINING a world where it wasn’t constituted a radical and potentially dangerous act, you don’t have any business judging those of us who have for how we survived it and how we found (or still find) comfort in the few imperfect representations we got.
You don’t have to like it. You probably aren’t capable of “getting” it. And to be honest, I don’t want you to! I am glad that young queer people will never know exactly what it was like “back then.” But what you also will not do is refuse to learn your own history and then shit on everything that came before you, because like it or not what came before you is the reason you will never have to get what it was like back then.
On Wesley Snipes’s role Noxeema and John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez.
“I grew up in the ‘70s and even within the street culture, there was a lot of flamboyancy,” Snipes told TODAY of his perception of drag before filming. “Pimps wore the same furs as theprostitutes wore.
“Some of the great musicians of the world, like Parliament-Funkadelic, were very androgynous. So it wasn’t really new for me to see men dressed as women or men dressed as drag queens.”
Snipes attended the famed LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and then State University of New York at Purchase. He wasn’t a dance major, but most of his friends were. “That exposed me to the world of glam, vogue, drag, transgender and gay people, LGBTQ… but it wasn’t in fashion those days. But it existed and I was around it.”
Not only did “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” pave the way for “To Wong Foo,” so did films like the 1968 documentary “The Queen” and “Paris Is Burning,” the 1990 doc that chronicled ball culture of New York and the various Black and queer communities involved in it.
Even though he was known for his action roles, Snipes’ portrayal of Noxeema wasn’t the first time he played a drag queen. In 1986, he made his Broadway debut in the play “Execution of Justice,” playing Sister Boom Boom, a real-life AIDS activist and drag nun who acted as the show’s voice of conscience. Snipes pointed out, “Sister Boom Boom did not have Noxeema’s makeup kit.”
On whether he got any pushback for stepping into Noxeema’s pumps, he said, “Not so much professionally but the streets weren’t feeling it, and there were certain community circles. The martial arts community… they were not feeling it at all.”
“In fact, when the movie came out and they would come down the street, I would see them in Brooklyn sometimes, they started listing all my movies. I noticed they would always skip that one. I would correct them, ‘Now you don’t got the full count!’”
Lesser-known than his co-stars at the time, Lequizamo didn’t really anticipate becoming a transgender icon, but he did know that they were working on something special when they started filming.
“Drag didn’t really exist in movies,” Lequizamo, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal, told TODAY. “There were straight men pretending to be women to get out of trouble or into trouble but this was not that. I was trying to make Chi-Chi a real life trans character and Patty and Wesley were trying to be real drag queens.” Never fully articulated in the film, Chi-Chi Rodriguez has always been perceived as transgender, something that ending up making an indelible mark on LGBTQ people in the late ‘90s as trans representation in media was limited.
“Chi-Chi was a trans icon, but she also showed us that gay men and trans women can both perform and work in drag side by side, and that those relationships are symbiotic,” Cayne explained.
“It was a powerful thing. I get lots of fan mail from LGBTQ teens telling me how my character helped them come out to their parents,” Leguizamo said. “They didn’t feel like they were seen, so that was a beautiful gift from the movie.”
Lequizamo also articulates that if “To Wong Foo” were cast today, a trans actor should be cast in his role. (And that just may happen, since Beane is developing a musical for Broadway.) “Anybody can play anything, but the playing field is not fair that way,” he said. “Not everybody is allowed to play everything. So until we get to that place, it is important for trans actors to get a chance to act which they don’t. In the project I’m doing, I’m making sure that the person playing trans is a trans person so we can make it legit, make it real. That just needs to be done right now.”
Source: How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic
a monumental film in the library of queer history.
it was formative for modern society, too.
there are a lot of action fans out there who learned from their idols that respect doesn’t cost a damn thing to give. i know plenty of people who aren’t queer saw trans women and drag queens presented as people to them for the first time in wong fu. suddenly, strange and foreign queer identities that had only been presented to them as jokes if they’d even heard of them, seemed a little more relatable, and very human.
we’re all just people.
snipes, swayze, and leguizamo were willing to play people a lot of their fans didn’t respect yet or didn’t even know how to respect and demand they figure it the fuck out.
This is a HUGE reblog but I watched this as a little girl on cable TV and I’m so glad I did. GO WATCH THIS AS SOON AS YOU CAN
I’d love it if To Wong Foo was inescapably broadcast once a year, like A Christmas Story.
For every terf that sends me anon hate, I just reblog this post again.
So when I was about 7, my mom rented To Wong Foo from the convenience store up the road.
And when I say that movie changes my life, I mean it.
As a closeted queer kid in a bible belt, never had I seen people like that represented anywhere.
Drag queens amazed me.
It was as though they had this superpower to seamlessly glide through gender. To be male or female at will. I was fascinated.
Vida also had such a massive impact on me as a person. I cannot stress that enough.
She was the first true role model I remember aligning with as a proud queer person. It amazed me how fearless and powerful she was.
This movie changed my life.
It became my favourite movie as a kid, I knew all the songs, and I rented it so much from that convenience store that they eventually just gave me the copy as I had “more than paid for it”. I remember being so enthralled by that.
Anyway, this film was a magic discovery for a queer kid in the Bible belt. And even beyond that, Vida taught me so much in that film about how to love and accept other people exactly as they are.
Vida forever.❤️
My favorite thing about the Knives Out movies has to be how aware the movies are of being movies. The writing is so ironic and self-aware it is insane. The death of a crime writer in a big house with a family despeate for his inheritance. An isolated tropical island with the deadly games of a rich fanatic. Wake Up Dead Man takes the cake. They named their main character Judas Duplenticy and had half of the movie explicitly told through his retelling of events. Benoit Blanc holds up a crime book and proclaims to the other charcters that these sorts of things never happen in our very real world, and I'm stuck on the other side of the screen waiting for a the office type fourth wall break that never comes
from what we can tell "full movie online free" seems to be some kind of 21st century prayer
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Mrs. Jennings from Sense & Sensibility. I want to be her when my kids grow up and leave the house
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The fact of the matter is that I do not want to do it
"do what?" you might wonder. well. [gestures broadly]
Let's not cooperate with mama
Always lovely to see how universal the experience of getting a very unwilling and strong minded toddler into the car seat can be.
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Oh god. It’s Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory, a children’s cartoon that I am now learning went off the air in 2003, a time which my calculator is telling me was nearly 23 years ago. Oh, god. Oh dear god. Oh dear fucking god
Teaboot, I’m going to find a way to fight you in a Denny’s parking lot for this.
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romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering
finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813
My proposal for a terrible and inconvenient piece of dual theatre
Basically when the pieces interact, the curtains open and the two plays become one. This would be awful to time and would probably suck mad shit, however I think I should be allowed to try and make it anyway
This would
A) Be a nightmare for stage manager trying to sync the transitions
B) Tech and effects would be crying pissing themselves trying to run two shows at once.
C) Adaptation. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is about 2:30 hours and Hamlet in full is 4 hours but is usually abridged down to about 3. There are also lengthening and shortenings of scenes in Hamlet in R&G. Off-stage scenes need to be synced with on stage appearances.
I’m also legally unsure of how this would work??? To get this produced you’d probably have to prioritize Stoppard text at the expense of Shakespeare
I also agree that this is terrible idea that must be done
agreeing w people in notes that the audience needs to be able to walk around between the two sides of the stage.
this would be a logistical nightmare and a brilliant theatrical coup, I need it thankyou
I was literally in this in 2003!
We didn't just do it on opposite sides of a stage; it was in various rooms of a building that represented the castle of Elsinore (it was a church, but architecturally was a little castle-like) and the audience could walk freely from room to room to see what different characters were up to at the same time: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern fretting in one space, Hamlet monologuing in another, maybe Claudius and Getrude plotting somewhere else, etc. We cut most of the third act of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead because it doesn't take place in or near Elsinore.
I played Guildenstern. It was great fun. I learned how to fake-flip a coin so it would always come up Heads, just in case an audience member decided to get close enough to see them. (They didn't.)
It was totally a nightmare for the stage manager to keep everybody on track so that the timing worked out. I feel really bad for the actress who played Ophelia, since they did her burial scene outside (in Philadelphia, in December!) and she had to obviously be motionless the whole time.
Please someone make this happen
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Suspicious.
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