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There was a real trend in the mid nineties with films like "The Birdcage," "Too Wong Foo," "Its my Party," and "Love! Valor! Compassion!" exploding onto the screen as America began to feel more at ease with its gay brothers and sisters. And as we watched these movies, a whole `Gay Comic Genre' was really born. Also we can't forget about the popularity of gay stand up at that same time.
"Priscilla" did indeed avail itself of this trend, and every gay humor trick in the book. It also managed to slip us some really amazing visual, comic and compassionate moments. Except for rabid, card-carrying homophobes, this Australian road-movie-with-a-difference is a charmer. The three are: aging transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp), youngish occasional bisexual Tick or Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and gay-all-the way Adam or Felicia (Guy Pearce), the youngest.
The trio's specialty is to appear on-stage dressed in the most outrageous, garish, feathery female outfits, undulate and sort of dance while lip-synching to 1970s disco songs, from ABBA to whatever comes close to Z. They do their lavish karaoke excellently, and the musical selections are a constant treat. Bernadette is the wisest and quietest of the three, and most serious --she hardly ever cracks a smile. Mitzi is a bit mercurial, sometimes solemn, and sometimes buoyant. Felicia, the wildest of the bunch, is full of animal spirits, a prankster who gets often on the others' nerves. But still, there is essential harmony among those divergent types.
Remarkably, their characters, with all the flamboyance, misadventures, mean hearted blokes, and desert creatures (not to mention some very musical Aborigine) kept them admirably cool, show quiet tenacity and retain their sense of humor, so that no matter what the circumstances, there is never panic or hysteria. In a peculiar way, this steadiness blends in well with the beautiful, barren landscapes which often take on a surreal look. This is an entertaining and touching movie. Recommended to anyone with a great sense of humor!
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Considering the scarcity of honest to goodness real looks at the drag queen world from the movie camera angle, this movie is a flower above the rest. All three involved on the long open road trek aboard the "S.S. Priscilla" are totally involving and do not allow a moment for the audience to ho-hum. Like Bernadette comments, "Yes. . a bloody good performer 7 days a week."
My only critical observance is that, being I have been to some real live authentic drag shows myself, I have observed mostly professional like performances with the best of them. And considering that this troop of gals is on high par with the elite Le Girls, I sometimes wonder why they allow their final antics after each performance sink into a yearning for audience approval of where they just performed. Most real professional performing drag queens do not sink into a quest of approval, or wanting to be loved, especially after they just brought the house down to the knees of the dance idolizing fans before them. Usually the performances that triggered enthusiastic crowds brought high applause rather than discerning jestures, odd looks, and a raving audience isolated in the dark corners of the theater. These are not the real drag shows that I have seen, that belted swell songs and left audiences gasping for more.
Other than that, this movie is far better than the rest in drag show material, behind the scenes, and around the tour bus that ventures where no drag queens have dared gone before.
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You'll laugh your butt off with this movie. If you've seen Too Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar, then you'll like this one! It's a similiarly fate trip but a different story. The characters of this one is our experienced lady Mitzi Del Fra/ Anthony "tick" Bellrose, the transexual friend Bernice Bassanger, and the young flamer Felicia Gollygoodfellow/Adam Whitely are an amazingly unusual trio of "gay men". It all starts out when Tick gets a call from a person out of his past. His wife, yes he was married at one point like some gay men, says she needs some help with something. Tick figures if he's going to go preform and help her out he'll bring along some back up. So he calls his loving friend Bernice, who is happy to get out of town and away from the emptiness of her husbands recent demise, and drags along his hot young "friend" Adam. While on their way from Sydney Austrilia (where the movie takes place) they venture inwards to Alice Springs and have one hell of a time in the out back. They get stranded, meet some interesting people, make some interesting impressions, and Bernice finds a new love in a small town mechanic who helps reach their destination. Now hopefully I have said too much to ruin this but I'm not going to say what surprise awaits Bernice and Adam when they Meet Tick's Wife at the hotel she runs. If you want anything more like the names of the actors that are in this the Internet Movie Data base (imdb.com) has a nice synopsis about the movie there. So get the popcorn, the soda, and make sure you have nothing to distract you from the constant jokes, catty comments, and strange events in this movie.
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GREAT: What an adventure for a bunch of Queens.
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Esta "road movie" también encarna un recorrido antisolemne por las emociones humanas. La eterna búsqueda de la aceptación de los otros, sería el story line más corto que se me viene a la mente, los tres protagonistas de esta cinta -al igual que el resto de las personas en este planeta- buscan la aceptación de sus congéneres. La historia del travestido bisexual y su hijo me parece la más conmovedora y hermosa. Ojalá que esta sociedad homófoba tuviera la sabiduría del niño de la cinta... En terrenos técnicos la realización es impecable en más de un sentido, el tono de la película es ligero y de una profunda belleza. Los momentos más alucinantes estéticamente son el de Guy Pearce cantando un aria de ópera montado en el techo del camión y el del trío disfrazado de avestruces. El soundtrack condimenta la película de un modo único. Las actuaciones son espectaculares y las locaciones mágicas. ¡Vaya, en resumen una película indispensable para quienes disfrutan del buen cine! Lo único malo de este filme es que inspiró a los norteamericanos a hacer la repudiable Reyes o Reinas pero por lo demás es una joya excepcional.
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