Surely I'm not the only one that finds it bizarre that they realize she's a girl when her hat comes off. She has a hair cut like a boy! How the hell did seeing here hair clue them in that it was a girl? That part has always confused the hell out of me.
shareYeah, I think that's hilarious, too.
It's especially weird when you consider that most men in the 1790's would have had long hair.
Seriously...her make up is running for Christ sakes! What the heck was up with Walt when he made this piece?
"Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hanged like a dog!" ~Anne Bonney
I thought the same thing when I watched Victor/Victoria, and Julie Andrews removed her headdress or something and suddenly she was supposed to be a guy or something after singing and everyone had previously thought she was a woman, but now she was a guy?
Actually I did the real thing like this when I saw this episode of Ricki Lake's talk show (I promise you I watched as little as possible of this show, but I just caught this one episode) and it was transvestism, drag queens and what have you. "I've got a secret" rubbish.
We see this young couple, both black, and 'the guy' had a secret.
I think the first thing I thought upon seeing 'him' was it was female, then they called the character a male, and I thought he must have been in high school.
The secret? He was really a woman! Oh, wow! What a revelation!!
I looked puzzled and thought, what on earth was all the shock and laughter about? 'It' didn't look male.
The woman, bless her heart, pretty much waited for the buffoon to finish laughing and said she always knew, it was obvious, which it was. People in the audience were standing up and saying they could tell there were breasts under the loose sweater.
It is strange when someone thinks they are convicing with this . . . . . 'deception!'
and yet since theater began, one of the oldest stage tricks/gags/ploys/twists in the world is the gender switch. and the monkeys roll in the aisles, kicking their feet and giggling that they might have felt a tickle of interest below the belt line for something so ridiculous as - get this - one of their own ha ha har har hoo hoo! people have always been saps; i guess they still laugh or gasp or thrill at this idiocy.
for myself, as a kid watching the movie, there was a lot (a LOT) of interest in the play going on between the girl-hidden-as-boy and the two brothers. it was hot! but not surprising, not hilarious, and not shocking...
i always thought he felt a boob while wrestling her
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I totally agree nosnnojsirhc. "Victor/Victoria", "Tootsie", "Some Like it Hot", "Mrs Doubtfire", "To Wong Fu.....Love,Julie Newmar", "Busom Buddies", and on and on and ON!!! "Oh my GOD! He's wearing a DRESS!!! HA HA HA!!!" As the cretins wipe tears of mirth from their eyes! Some idiots are endlessly amused by the oldest gag in the world. Of course we still see the pants falling down gag, and the pie in the face gag.....But not a WHOLE MOVIE devoted to these cliche's. This crap is right up their with the "Evil Twin" and the "It was all a dream scenario" as examples of "Brain Dead Theater" time wasters. Read a freakin' BOOK!
sharenice to read a like-minded post!!
of course, many would respond that, in reading some of the CLASSIC 'books', like Shakespeare, Ovid, etc. - they find the same thing! AGGHHHH!
how to escape the tired old gags?!?!
Well, for one thing in Shakespearean times as well as in Greco-Roman theatre, ALL women's roles were played by men. So how did they do a "gender switch?" Musta required GREAT suspension of disbelief. :)
shareseems every time i read about a male social society's 'secret soiree' or whatever, they do the same thing - dress up in women's clothes and roar at how funny they are. sad. stupid. scary?
shareAnd let us not forget the ever-popular frat guys dressed a chorus line imitating the Rockettes! Oh, the humanity!
shareThere have been some instances where people were able to fool others in thinking they were the opposite sex. Take, for example, Teena Brandon, a transgendered person, who was born female but identified as male. In her late teens, she began dressing as a man, moved to a new town, and acquired a new identity... Brandon Teena! As Brandon, he was able to convince the people of Falls City, Nebraska, that he really was male. He even began dating a local girl. But when his past caught up with him (Teena Brandon had been wanted for petty crimes), his true identity was found out and the two male friends he'd made turned on him and raped him. They were mostly upset that Brandon had fooled them. Brandon's story was later dramatized in the film BOYS DON'T CRY, which won Hilary Swank the Academy Award as Best Actress.
sharefor the cerebral exercise, let us all try to imagine the scenario wherein it would logically precipitate from 'you fooled me' to justification for rape.
shareI always thought he realized that she's a girl because she started to cry pitifully after Fritz wrestled with her. ^^;
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