Sweet Transvestite
I’ve been hearing murmured buzz about this for a few months now, and finally took the time to Google it last night.
Needless to say, I am appalled. I am horrified. I am also not terribly surprised.
The first time I saw Rocky Horror, I was about six. My Uncle Sal let me watch it (because he’s awesome), and I thought men dressing up like women and jumping into other men’s beds was the coolest thing EVER. I promptly learned how to do The Time Warp, showed my first grade teacher, and the phone calls home about “Samantha’s odd behavior” began. I watched it every day after school all through elementary, dressed up as Magenta for every Halloween throughout Junior High, and by the time I was 14 was attending the midnight showings in the East Village. I wanted to grow up to play Lips.
And now, here comes MTV, threatening to not only remake the 1975 classic, but add new songs.
“I have no view on whether it should be remade, but it doesn’t have my blessing”, says Richard O’Brien, better known to us Transilvanians as Riff Raff, whom also wrote the original book, music, and lyrics.
Thankfully, there isn’t any recent news on the subject, but help voice your opinion against the remake by signing the petition at Stop the Remake. My name is on there, and we can all jump to the left with little peace of mind.
Tags: Rocky Horror, stop the remake
May 8th, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Oh please say it isnt so….Why tamper with perfection?
Now THAT would be one hell of a remake!
If they want to make a remake then why does it have to be MTV? Why?
How about nix MTV and throw in Tim Burton instead!
May 8th, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Oh noo. This movie DEFINITELY should not be remade.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:41 PM
D:
I’m hoping its one of those rumors that gets kicked around and never happens. Like the horrifying Rock ‘n’ Roll High School remake by Howard Stern (blecccchhhh) that was thrown around for awhile and never came to fruition. I signed the petition regardless.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:06 AM
I’ve been hearing about this remake for awhile, so my hopes are that they talk about it forever but never actually do it.
The idea of it freaks the hell out of me though, I probably watched it at the same age that you did, although I’m fairly sure whoever let me watch it fast-forwarded through the entirety of Meatloaf’s performance because they didn’t want my ‘young mind perverted by the violence’.
Although I think they chose the wrong parts to skip. I was the only kid at school who could both do the time-warp and recite an entire Monty Python’s skit. I was kind of a strange child…
The fact that they plan to add new songs just seems like further sacrilege.
May 9th, 2009 at 9:58 AM
There’s just no way that film is going to make sense as a remake, let alone resonate with the current MTV viewership. MTV has long ago lost touch with alternative culture how could they possible hope to accomplish this?
Part of me kinda hopes it does get remade. It would be hilariously awkward.
May 10th, 2009 at 3:55 AM
Oh come on, first Drop Dead Fred, now this?
Preparing for a Zac Efron look-alike skipping around preppily in a corset and singing about his undying love for himself.
*Retch*.
May 12th, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Wow, I though I was the only person who saw Rocky Horror aged six. My sister and I used to recreate the show, using our soft toys as the characters. I kid you not – my black fluffy cat played Frank, my favourite teddy was the Narrator, and a toy deer stood in for Janet.
I think it explains a lot of how I turned out.