The Rocky Horror Fox Remake

[von_geisterhand]

I really don't know how I feel about the casting of an actual transsexual as the "Sweet Transvestite". :-/ I mean, it's blunt and it's obvious and it's gimmicky but then again it's a FOX production for the "youth of today". I don't really think that releasing another film version of RHPS is the sacrilege that some groups may be treating it as. IMHO it is as necessary/valid as, say that recent run of "Jesus Christ Superstar" featuring John Lydon as Herod. I mean, Joel Grey is cool but Alan Cummings is, too, and he's probably more up to the task of performing an entire musical than Mr. Grey. So, meh!
However I also think that Rocky Horror is very much a product of its time and while it certainly has helped people find themselves/their true sexuality back in the day and while undoubtedly people are still finding likeminded individuals through it even nowadays, it doesn't really hold up any longer. Society has moved on and men in drag are no longer the wreckers of civilisation they used to be.
Also, Frank N. Furter is still an alien, per definitionem "The Inhuman Other". And an evil alien at that. Not really a poster boy for tolerance.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Laverne Cox is awesome, though.

[von_geisterhand]

Undoubtedly. I'm not sayin that I don't think she is up to the task. Judging by the trailer (which isn't much, I admit) she has all the va-voom that Frank needs. I'm just saying that you're getting into some dodgy semantics here.

[miss_s_b]

Oh, yeah, not arguing with that. I'll just probably go and see it anyway because Laverne is awesome.