Postmodernism Of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - amazonia.fiocruz.br

To mark the occasion, this imaginary, rat-infested, leaky-roofed theater is raising the curtain on historically important midnight movies. One of the fascinating things about Rocku Horror is that you can actually pinpoint the moment when it was torn from the fingers of the midnight screening devotees and spread to the general public — when it was belatedly released on home video.

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Going by Wikipedia, the film was available for home source as early as in the UK; being an American, I can only attest that the initial US release on VHS was greeted with controversy, even a certain sense of betrayal by many.

How could 20th Century Fox do that to the film?

How could one commit the sacrilege of watching the movie without all that and at any time of day? Someone could watch Rocky Horror at 8 in the morning!

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Which was nonsense, as demonstrated by its subsequent popularity in the thirty years since, and its transformation into a cultural fixture — fawning, watered-down remakes and all. The film was shot cheaply and quickly, produced by American record producer Lou Adler who had purchased the US rights to the musical after being impressed by it in London and Monty Python and the Holy Grail producers Michael White and John Goldstone, with Australian director Jim Sharman Hofror the camera.

The film is therefore a faithful expansion of the stage production. When I saw a live production of the musical a few years back, the director cleverly projected trailers for the referenced movies before the show began.

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Even accidentally, Rocky Horror was ahead of its time. Throughout the film Sharman is focused on the actors and catching the little comedic gestures and lines perfected during stage performances. The King and Queen of course is Curry, twisting his lips into lascivious appraisals or condescending sneers, casually breaking the fourth wall, belting out his tunes as though trying to shove the camera back with his voice. This is not a message that goes stale, which is why Rocky Horror is still revived on stage and — when this pandemic lifts — will again be playing in theaters at midnights to those who just want to lose themselves for a couple hours. It probably also plays well at 8 in the morning. Midnight Only. Skip to content. Frank-N-Furter Tim Curry prepares to awaken his creation. Bookmark the permalink.

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