One of my favorite movies! Julie Andrews played such squeaky clean characters in the 60's and made a few naughty ones in the 80's - she has a voice for the ages. I love that her best friend is Carol Burnett. ROBERT Preston has passed away now, what a great talent.
This came at the perfect time for me. I love this movie and I loved your reaction! To clarify, I believe in olden times hotels commonly provided a service where you could leave your shoes outside your door and have them shined by the next day. The guy probably didn't feel comfortable leaving his shoes out with so many shady characters roaming the corridor, so he kept trying again, but no luck.
@@Madvisionn Haha I didn't get this joke until my parents explained it to me. The guy keeps seeing all this shady activity and is worried they will steal his shoes if he leaves them outside!
Hello!! Omg I’m a longtime silent watcher of your Ted Lasso reactions and when this video came up IT MADE ME SO HAPPY!! I love how Ted Lasso introduced you to the magnificent being that is Julie Andrews and Victor/Victoria is such a great film to start with!! Usually most people’s introduction with Julie are either Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, or Princess Diaries (aka the films mentioned in Ted Lasso and some of her most well-known work), that’s also why Julie has always been coined as a wholesome actress. Honestly, what I’d give to watch Victor/Victoria again for the first time and seeing that you loved it made my heart happy!! Just a few fun facts that hasn’t been mentioned yet in the comments, Blake Edwards, the director of the film, is Julie’s husband in real life and they’re married for 41 years until Blake passed. They made a number of films together and also took Victor/Victoria to broadway. I could honestly talk about Julie Andrews the whole day. She’s definitely one of my all-time favorite actresses, her journey is really quite something, she’s been through a lot both on her career and her personal life, and she’s an amazing human overall. I ADORE Robert Preston!! Julie and Robert (and Blake as the director) made 2 films together, the other one is S.O.B. (1981), a comedy/satire about the Hollywood movie-making industry… it’s a hoot!! I’d really like to join your patreon but I don’t have the budget for it right now but hopefully soon!! In the meantime, I’ll be here on youtube supporting your content. 💖💖💖
@Madvisionn P.S. in "S.O.B." the normally clean-cut Julie Andrews shows her boobies. This turned the world upside-down for the clean-cut, wholesome types! S.O.B. is a great satirization of Hollywood. Blake Edwards made a lot of cool movies.
LOVED your reaction. I'm not a fan of musicals, but this one is so great. And it's amazing that this kind of movie was done in the beginning of the 80s.
As a queer person this is amazing. I think everyone forgets Andrews spent her whole life in theater where queer people were all over the place. I think this predated the Birdcage by a couple years.
It even pre-dated the Jerry Herman Broadway musical *La Cage aux Folles* (1983), which is based on the 1978 French movie of the same title that was also the basis for *The Birdcage* (1996).
It was incredible I saw this when I was 12 with a friend we loved this so much he came out to me. Asked me to keep it to myself as he knew his parents would be shocked. He left home at 16.
Julie Andrews second movie, after Mary Poppins, was also with James Garner. It was called The Americanization of Emily. They later made a TV movie together.
this is a favorite of mine. back when this was released it was very rare to find the lgbt+ community represented in such a "normal" way. i dont like phrasing it that way but cant think of a better way. it meant a lot and was very refreshing for many of us. i highly recommend watching the broadway version of "victor victoria". julie andrews does star in it. unfortunately robert preston died not long after making this film, and leslie ann warren was unavailable to be in it. but the new cast did a wonderful job. there are some new songs, and it is a true musical. the songs arent just performed as acts in a club, they are integrated into the story. the story changes a bit too. so it would be a different experience than the film. also, it was filmed on stage during live performances, so it is a totally different energy.
This movie is so awesome on so many levels. I love it when youngsters watch it and realize there is stuff like this out there. Blake Edwards made a lot of hilarious movies. He was married to some chick named Julie Andrews. 😊 Julie Andrews was beyond popular back in the 50s-2000s. She's had a phenomenal career. If you never knew her before, and you love the theater, you should check her out. She was singing in front of the Queen at a young age. James Garner was a he-man TV western star in the 50s & 60s. In the 70s he played TV detective Jim Rockford in "The Rockford Files." He was a "man's man" type of guy. The Rockford Files was a huge show in the 70s, as was "Maverick" in the 60's. Robert Preston was beyond awesome in this movie. Alex Karras is an American football Hall-of-Famer and was the lead adult character in the 80's American sitcom "Webster." This movie is an all-time classic in this hetero's opinion. Soooo great
Others have rightly recommended *Mary Poppins* (1964), starring Julie Andrews, and *The Music Man* (1962), starring Robert Preston. I think you might also enjoy a lesser-known Julie Andrews musical, *Star!* (1968), and her gay-friendly tv movie, *Our Sons* (1991). Lesley Ann Warren also appeared in other musicals -- most iconically in the title role in the second television production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's *Cinderella* (1965). Julie had played the same role in the original production in 1957. Lesley Ann later had leading roles in two live-action Disney musicals, *The Happiest Millionaire* (1967) and *The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band* (1968).
No. Regarding the guy with the shoes. Very fancy hotels used to offer a service. If you left your leather shoes outside your hotel door, they would pick them up and shine them for you. The man keeps trying to leave his shoes outside his door. But every time he opens the door, he sees someone doing something suspicious in the hallway. He doesn't want to get involved in whatever is happening in the hallway, so he retreats back into his room. He opens the door and tries to leave his shoes again. And again, someone else is doing something suspicious in the hallway. It's just silly. He can't seem to leave his shoes without witnessing someone doing something they shouldn't be doing.
Norma(Leslie Ann Warren) also played Miss Scarlet in the film CLUE. Oscar winner Julie Andrews also performed this on Broadway and watch her in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins her two biggest films. James Garner did the tv show The Rockford Files and films and ironically according to some reports was secretly gay. I believe Robert Preston was Oscar nominated for this film. The late Blake Edwards the director was Julie Andrews husband. To shed her more demure image, her husband directed her in the adult comedy S.O.B. where she had a topless scene!
Okay now that I watched: Victor Victoria came out in 1982 and was an adaptation of a German film of the same name that came out in 1933 (before things got ugly and repressed in Germany). A dozen years later in 1995 the movie was adapted into a broadway show bringing Andrews back as Victor/ia and adding songs some of which (as you mentioned) are more character driven and not just stage performances. While most of the concepts have remarkably remained pretty progressive (even as this story is now 90 years old) - the love story at the center with James Garner is my least favorite part. I think it could have been handled so much better then it was. Like you said - I think his lines about not caring if Victor/ia was a man or a woman would be much much more substantial if he hadn’t BROKEN INTO HER ROOM AND VIOLATED HER PRIVACY in order to protect his homophobic ego. He made no actual moves until he saw her naked. But I digress - I can’t stand Garner in anything he is in. If you loved Robert Preston he is the music man in “the music man” movie which is worth it just to watch him. I friggin love that THIS is how you stepped into Julie Andrews - she did this movie partially to tarnish her goody two shoes reputation from “Mary Poppins” and “the sound of music” both also worh watching but I love that you are doing it backwards. ALL THIS SAID - I am going to join your patreon as soon as I am employed again. Times are ugly right now but you are the first TH-camr I have ever wanted to make that step for. Sadly I’m not into a lot of the shows you watch but the Six Feet Under and musical connection is enough for me. If you love Sondheim - might I make one suggestion? Fallsettos. It is a long conversation and I would love to have it but let me just say it’s a combination of 3 shows written by William Finn starting in the late 70s about a gay family. It’s been my favorite thing since I discovered it over 30 years ago and it was recently brilliantly revamped on stage and is AVAILABLE to stream. I love the OG cast which includes Chip Zien (OG baker from into the woods) but the new cast is also brilliant. Anyway - I will stop. I could send you a lot more but I will wait until I am a member. ❤
Omg you're the sweetest, hope you'll be not broke soon LMAOOO also I just realized I have seen Sound of Music I just didn't know Julie Andrews was the lead actress... STEPHEN SONDHEIM IS MY FAVORITE BROADWAY COMPOSER/WRITER. Thank you so much for the support 💖🙏
Just wanted to let you know...if you liked Robert Preston in Victor Victoria....you should watch him in The Music Man. He is wonderful in that. Much love 💘
49:53 yes sadly Robert Preston passed away in 1987 from lung cancer Bernadette Peters who worked with him on Mack and Mabel and Barbara Cook (Marian the librarian from the music man) in which he was famous for the role Harold Hill both sang at the 1987 Tony Awards as a tribute to him, Blake Edwards was Julie’s husband for many years and remained married until his death in 2010, please continue watching musicals on this channel, please watch the Music Man (the 1962 one)
You might like Robert Preston starring as Harold Hill in the musical “The Music Man”. If you don’t have a lot of time just watch him singing “Ya Got Trouble “
In a high class hotel like this, you could put your shoes outside the room to be polished by members of the hotel staff and then put back in front of your door.
Hi! In the 21 min some, the getting the (i don't know how is called) hat of and showing their hair doesn't give away is a man. There was a law that a men could perform as a woman but, at the end of the show, it had to take off their wigs or hairdos to prove to the public they were men as to not "lie to them". Very awful really, as Victoria has short hair and its her own she can't take of the wig but, as per law, she take of the hat. That marks that they are a "man in disguise". Lovely reaction as always! 😘
i've seen a few comments about James Garner here, if anyone want to check out a young Garner there is Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (i think 1960) it also has Audrey Hepburn & Shirley McClaine, however you may want to strangle writer Lillian for the ending
Yeah, I also always notice cinematographer Dick Bush in the credits for some reason. 🤗 He did a bunch of Ken Russell's films. Pretty sure you'd enjoy most of Russell's movies, Imad. Lair of the White Worm, Lisztomania, The Boy Friend, etc.
@@Madvisionn Ken Russell's movies _sorta_ align, style-wize, with a lot of Bollywood, is why I mention him. I haven't seen many Indian movies, only because they're _all_ *so damned* long. I *dig* em (seen maybe 6 or 8..?), but...hence a lot of your reactions are outside my experience. One of the few I know and *LOVE* and suggest is Don (1978). It's a dilly, says the old man who doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@Madvisionn Russell's films didn't suffer from the censorship of Bollywood, of course. One I mentioned has Roger Daltrey riding a ten foot phallus. Another, The Devils (1970), features a historically accurate nun orgy...which got it banned in Britain for, like, 20 years. His films certainly aren't boring. Tommy ('75) is his most famous musical and a decent introduction...if you're inclined.
The scene at the end, I always figured, is more the difference between high and low drag. Toddy's from the gutter, yano? He does burlesque drag. Victoria was doing High Drag. Female Impersonation(TM) in a way in modern times I mostly see the other way around in Japanese musicals with male roles played by actresses. Have you seen the clip of Dracula musical with the girl playing not-genderbent Dracula? Or any of the Sailor Moon musicals with a female playing Tuxedo Mask? That's Male Impersonation(TM) not drag. So yeah, Toddy is having more fun with it, but not because he's a "real man" and thus funny pretending to be a woman. He just doesn't have a classy bone in his body and is absolutely ruining this classical piece of theatre with his panto proclivities, yano? Not the difference between male and female, the difference between camp and melodrama. Since the whole story started when Toddy met Victoria when she was bringing her classy high arte skills to a strip club, it's full circle for it to end with Toddy bringing his strip club skills to The Theatre(TM). Only pity is Norma's not there playing the mattadore too, she's the het version of the kind of performer Toddy is which is why the Chicago song is like it is.
To quote one of Julie's lines from a "rap" number she did with Carol Burnett on their third joint television special: "I'm afraid my ba-zooms are rather hard to hide."
"The Inspector has exposed the impostor! You will all be arrested for perpetrating a public fraud!" (You even said something agreeing with that idea.) NO!!!! It's a drag show! The entire art form is about subverting gender expectations about what is masculine, what is feminine. It is a performance. What is the difference between putting on a wig and portraying yourself as a woman, or taking off a wig and portraying yourself as a man? You get no guarantees about the performer's binary identity at a drag show. You get gender-bending entertainment. Who gets to say when it is performance and when it is real life? The idea of fraud suggests that people in the audience have a right to know the "truth" and are being misled. The entire performance is a MASK hiding reality! The audience has zero expectation of getting factual reality about anything. NO FRAUD. It's entirely illusion. Like a magic show, or a circus. Does a magician get accused of fraud because he didn't actually cut the lady in half? (Of course not.) Drag is not about reality, and no one in the audience should expect they are being shown reality.
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This was soooooo goood I AM LIVING FOR IT RN 😂❤❤
What's your favorite quote from this movie?
Favorite quote..."I just love French men. So do I." 😝😊
Wait, you live on this planet and you only know who Julie Andrews is because she was mentioned on Ted Lasso? Kill me now. 😱
One of my favorite movies! Julie Andrews played such squeaky clean characters in the 60's and made a few naughty ones in the 80's - she has a voice for the ages. I love that her best friend is Carol Burnett.
ROBERT Preston has passed away now, what a great talent.
This came at the perfect time for me. I love this movie and I loved your reaction!
To clarify, I believe in olden times hotels commonly provided a service where you could leave your shoes outside your door and have them shined by the next day. The guy probably didn't feel comfortable leaving his shoes out with so many shady characters roaming the corridor, so he kept trying again, but no luck.
Loll ok thanks 😆 I'm like is he okay
in the olden days, you put your shoes outside your hotel door and in the morning the were returned polished
WHATTT 😳
@@Madvisionn Haha I didn't get this joke until my parents explained it to me. The guy keeps seeing all this shady activity and is worried they will steal his shoes if he leaves them outside!
Lesley Anne Warren should have won the Oscar.......
100%
"See you in church" became a favourite phrase for a dear friend of mine. 😄🥰
Her headpiece is magnificent!
Hello!! Omg I’m a longtime silent watcher of your Ted Lasso reactions and when this video came up IT MADE ME SO HAPPY!! I love how Ted Lasso introduced you to the magnificent being that is Julie Andrews and Victor/Victoria is such a great film to start with!! Usually most people’s introduction with Julie are either Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, or Princess Diaries (aka the films mentioned in Ted Lasso and some of her most well-known work), that’s also why Julie has always been coined as a wholesome actress.
Honestly, what I’d give to watch Victor/Victoria again for the first time and seeing that you loved it made my heart happy!!
Just a few fun facts that hasn’t been mentioned yet in the comments, Blake Edwards, the director of the film, is Julie’s husband in real life and they’re married for 41 years until Blake passed. They made a number of films together and also took Victor/Victoria to broadway.
I could honestly talk about Julie Andrews the whole day. She’s definitely one of my all-time favorite actresses, her journey is really quite something, she’s been through a lot both on her career and her personal life, and she’s an amazing human overall.
I ADORE Robert Preston!! Julie and Robert (and Blake as the director) made 2 films together, the other one is S.O.B. (1981), a comedy/satire about the Hollywood movie-making industry… it’s a hoot!! I’d really like to join your patreon but I don’t have the budget for it right now but hopefully soon!! In the meantime, I’ll be here on youtube supporting your content. 💖💖💖
YOU'RE THE SWEETEST ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for the facts
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@Madvisionn P.S. in "S.O.B." the normally clean-cut Julie Andrews shows her boobies. This turned the world upside-down for the clean-cut, wholesome types! S.O.B. is a great satirization of Hollywood. Blake Edwards made a lot of cool movies.
LOVED your reaction. I'm not a fan of musicals, but this one is so great. And it's amazing that this kind of movie was done in the beginning of the 80s.
As a queer person this is amazing. I think everyone forgets Andrews spent her whole life in theater where queer people were all over the place. I think this predated the Birdcage by a couple years.
It even pre-dated the Jerry Herman Broadway musical *La Cage aux Folles* (1983), which is based on the 1978 French movie of the same title that was also the basis for *The Birdcage* (1996).
@@oliverbrownlow5615 right, thank you!
It was incredible I saw this when I was 12 with a friend we loved this so much he came out to me. Asked me to keep it to myself as he knew his parents would be shocked. He left home at 16.
Julie Andrews second movie, after Mary Poppins, was also with James Garner. It was called The Americanization of Emily. They later made a TV movie together.
this is a favorite of mine. back when this was released it was very rare to find the lgbt+ community represented in such a "normal" way. i dont like phrasing it that way but cant think of a better way. it meant a lot and was very refreshing for many of us. i highly recommend watching the broadway version of "victor victoria". julie andrews does star in it. unfortunately robert preston died not long after making this film, and leslie ann warren was unavailable to be in it. but the new cast did a wonderful job. there are some new songs, and it is a true musical. the songs arent just performed as acts in a club, they are integrated into the story. the story changes a bit too. so it would be a different experience than the film. also, it was filmed on stage during live performances, so it is a totally different energy.
This film in 1982 was ahead of its time. A mainstream movie musical with openly gay people is fantastic.
This movie is so awesome on so many levels. I love it when youngsters watch it and realize there is stuff like this out there.
Blake Edwards made a lot of hilarious movies. He was married to some chick named Julie Andrews. 😊
Julie Andrews was beyond popular back in the 50s-2000s. She's had a phenomenal career. If you never knew her before, and you love the theater, you should check her out. She was singing in front of the Queen at a young age.
James Garner was a he-man TV western star in the 50s & 60s. In the 70s he played TV detective Jim Rockford in "The Rockford Files." He was a "man's man" type of guy. The Rockford Files was a huge show in the 70s, as was "Maverick" in the 60's.
Robert Preston was beyond awesome in this movie.
Alex Karras is an American football Hall-of-Famer and was the lead adult character in the 80's American sitcom "Webster."
This movie is an all-time classic in this hetero's opinion. Soooo great
Years ago In the fancier Hotels you could leave your shoes outside your room at night and by morning they would be cleaned and polished.
Glad you liked it! Excellent performances all around for all the leading actors and a fun movie overall. Thanks for a great reaction!
Glad you enjoyed it
Others have rightly recommended *Mary Poppins* (1964), starring Julie Andrews, and *The Music Man* (1962), starring Robert Preston. I think you might also enjoy a lesser-known Julie Andrews musical, *Star!* (1968), and her gay-friendly tv movie, *Our Sons* (1991). Lesley Ann Warren also appeared in other musicals -- most iconically in the title role in the second television production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's *Cinderella* (1965). Julie had played the same role in the original production in 1957. Lesley Ann later had leading roles in two live-action Disney musicals, *The Happiest Millionaire* (1967) and *The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band* (1968).
If you like Lesley Anne Warren. You should see her in the movie Clue.
49:14 that bar was in fact filled with the stuntmen. But what a way to start a fight.
34:24 this song was used as a device to establish location.
No. Regarding the guy with the shoes. Very fancy hotels used to offer a service. If you left your leather shoes outside your hotel door, they would pick them up and shine them for you. The man keeps trying to leave his shoes outside his door. But every time he opens the door, he sees someone doing something suspicious in the hallway. He doesn't want to get involved in whatever is happening in the hallway, so he retreats back into his room. He opens the door and tries to leave his shoes again. And again, someone else is doing something suspicious in the hallway. It's just silly. He can't seem to leave his shoes without witnessing someone doing something they shouldn't be doing.
My favourite movie of all time!!! Yay!!!!
The Follies Bergere in Paris. Was around then too. The original was made 1933 set in Berlin
Norma(Leslie Ann Warren) also played Miss Scarlet in the film CLUE. Oscar winner Julie Andrews also performed this on Broadway and watch her in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins her two biggest films. James Garner did the tv show The Rockford Files and films and ironically according to some reports was secretly gay. I believe Robert Preston was Oscar nominated for this film. The late Blake Edwards the director was Julie Andrews husband. To shed her more demure image, her husband directed her in the adult comedy S.O.B. where she had a topless scene!
The last scene in the movie was improvised.
Really? The dress was actually made for Robert Preston and taken in for Julie Andrews version of Shady Dame.
Okay now that I watched:
Victor Victoria came out in 1982 and was an adaptation of a German film of the same name that came out in 1933 (before things got ugly and repressed in Germany).
A dozen years later in 1995 the movie was adapted into a broadway show bringing Andrews back as Victor/ia and adding songs some of which (as you mentioned) are more character driven and not just stage performances.
While most of the concepts have remarkably remained pretty progressive (even as this story is now 90 years old) - the love story at the center with James Garner is my least favorite part. I think it could have been handled so much better then it was.
Like you said - I think his lines about not caring if Victor/ia was a man or a woman would be much much more substantial if he hadn’t BROKEN INTO HER ROOM AND VIOLATED HER PRIVACY in order to protect his homophobic ego. He made no actual moves until he saw her naked.
But I digress - I can’t stand Garner in anything he is in.
If you loved Robert Preston he is the music man in “the music man” movie which is worth it just to watch him.
I friggin love that THIS is how you stepped into Julie Andrews - she did this movie partially to tarnish her goody two shoes reputation from “Mary Poppins” and “the sound of music” both also worh watching but I love that you are doing it backwards.
ALL THIS SAID - I am going to join your patreon as soon as I am employed again. Times are ugly right now but you are the first TH-camr I have ever wanted to make that step for. Sadly I’m not into a lot of the shows you watch but the Six Feet Under and musical connection is enough for me.
If you love Sondheim - might I make one suggestion?
Fallsettos. It is a long conversation and I would love to have it but let me just say it’s a combination of 3 shows written by William Finn starting in the late 70s about a gay family.
It’s been my favorite thing since I discovered it over 30 years ago and it was recently brilliantly revamped on stage and is AVAILABLE to stream. I love the OG cast which includes Chip Zien (OG baker from into the woods) but the new cast is also brilliant.
Anyway - I will stop.
I could send you a lot more but I will wait until I am a member.
❤
Omg you're the sweetest, hope you'll be not broke soon LMAOOO also I just realized I have seen Sound of Music I just didn't know Julie Andrews was the lead actress...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM IS MY FAVORITE BROADWAY COMPOSER/WRITER.
Thank you so much for the support 💖🙏
52:00 this scene was improvised.
One of your best, most fun reactions! Much Love.
Thank you so much
Just wanted to let you know...if you liked Robert Preston in Victor Victoria....you should watch him in The Music Man. He is wonderful in that. Much love 💘
OMG VICTOR VICTORIA!
I am gobsmacked.
I’m not a patreon but I may need to figure it out because I would LOVE to list some gems for you.
AHHHHHHHH
Robert Preston's last film was the last star fighter.
The shoes left out in hall for shoeshine. Hotels did that.
49:53 yes sadly Robert Preston passed away in 1987 from lung cancer Bernadette Peters who worked with him on Mack and Mabel and Barbara Cook (Marian the librarian from the music man) in which he was famous for the role Harold Hill both sang at the 1987 Tony Awards as a tribute to him, Blake Edwards was Julie’s husband for many years and remained married until his death in 2010, please continue watching musicals on this channel, please watch the Music Man (the 1962 one)
Awww
You might like Robert Preston starring as Harold Hill in the musical “The Music Man”. If you don’t have a lot of time just watch him
singing “Ya Got Trouble “
16:46 1 of those 3 guys is Blake and Julie's son.
That cockroach was frozen. They used a hairdryer to thaw out the roach.
7:19 I love that line.
You should check out Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music"
I have seen the sound of music, beautiful movie
8:53 and that line
In a high class hotel like this, you could put your shoes outside the room to be polished by members of the hotel staff and then put back in front of your door.
47:18 the detective is in fact Blake and Julie's doctor. They said that if their doctor was as good a doctor as he was actor, they wouldn't be alive.
Hi! In the 21 min some, the getting the (i don't know how is called) hat of and showing their hair doesn't give away is a man. There was a law that a men could perform as a woman but, at the end of the show, it had to take off their wigs or hairdos to prove to the public they were men as to not "lie to them".
Very awful really, as Victoria has short hair and its her own she can't take of the wig but, as per law, she take of the hat. That marks that they are a "man in disguise".
Lovely reaction as always! 😘
i've seen a few comments about James Garner here, if anyone want to check out a young Garner there is Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (i think 1960) it also has Audrey Hepburn & Shirley McClaine, however you may want to strangle writer Lillian for the ending
50:31 a hilarious part
Yeah, I also always notice cinematographer Dick Bush in the credits for some reason. 🤗
He did a bunch of Ken Russell's films. Pretty sure you'd enjoy most of Russell's movies, Imad. Lair of the White Worm, Lisztomania, The Boy Friend, etc.
Lol thanks
@@Madvisionn Ken Russell's movies _sorta_ align, style-wize, with a lot of Bollywood, is why I mention him.
I haven't seen many Indian movies, only because they're _all_ *so damned* long. I *dig* em (seen maybe 6 or 8..?), but...hence a lot of your reactions are outside my experience.
One of the few I know and *LOVE* and suggest is Don (1978). It's a dilly, says the old man who doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@Madvisionn Russell's films didn't suffer from the censorship of Bollywood, of course. One I mentioned has Roger Daltrey riding a ten foot phallus. Another, The Devils (1970), features a historically accurate nun orgy...which got it banned in Britain for, like, 20 years.
His films certainly aren't boring. Tommy ('75) is his most famous musical and a decent introduction...if you're inclined.
As a souvenir, Blake gave Julie a solid gold cockroach.
@39:42 ''I don't care if you are a man''
That scene would have been so much better if he hadn't already known that she wasn't a man !
The scene at the end, I always figured, is more the difference between high and low drag. Toddy's from the gutter, yano? He does burlesque drag. Victoria was doing High Drag. Female Impersonation(TM) in a way in modern times I mostly see the other way around in Japanese musicals with male roles played by actresses. Have you seen the clip of Dracula musical with the girl playing not-genderbent Dracula? Or any of the Sailor Moon musicals with a female playing Tuxedo Mask? That's Male Impersonation(TM) not drag.
So yeah, Toddy is having more fun with it, but not because he's a "real man" and thus funny pretending to be a woman. He just doesn't have a classy bone in his body and is absolutely ruining this classical piece of theatre with his panto proclivities, yano? Not the difference between male and female, the difference between camp and melodrama.
Since the whole story started when Toddy met Victoria when she was bringing her classy high arte skills to a strip club, it's full circle for it to end with Toddy bringing his strip club skills to The Theatre(TM). Only pity is Norma's not there playing the mattadore too, she's the het version of the kind of performer Toddy is which is why the Chicago song is like it is.
Strapping them down was veeerrrrrrryyy uncomfortable for Julie.
To quote one of Julie's lines from a "rap" number she did with Carol Burnett on their third joint television special: "I'm afraid my ba-zooms are rather hard to hide."
Anyone spot their son?
This film is not "inclusive" enough for todays standards. It is perfectly diverse.
See the movie Cabaret with Liza Minnelli
I did react to it
"The Inspector has exposed the impostor! You will all be arrested for perpetrating a public fraud!" (You even said something agreeing with that idea.) NO!!!! It's a drag show! The entire art form is about subverting gender expectations about what is masculine, what is feminine. It is a performance. What is the difference between putting on a wig and portraying yourself as a woman, or taking off a wig and portraying yourself as a man? You get no guarantees about the performer's binary identity at a drag show. You get gender-bending entertainment. Who gets to say when it is performance and when it is real life? The idea of fraud suggests that people in the audience have a right to know the "truth" and are being misled. The entire performance is a MASK hiding reality! The audience has zero expectation of getting factual reality about anything. NO FRAUD. It's entirely illusion. Like a magic show, or a circus. Does a magician get accused of fraud because he didn't actually cut the lady in half? (Of course not.) Drag is not about reality, and no one in the audience should expect they are being shown reality.
Bro please react to ' soorarai pottru ' requesting from the last 6 videos .
The IMDb rating is 8.7.
U definitely enjoy the movie.
48:10 excuse me? Did that come from experience?
Bro you are not reacting allu arjun songs
A full Allu Arjun movie reaction coming tomorrow!
Stupid comets on excellent film . Format of the post is to analyze before the scenes or musical numeral were finished.