The first time I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show it was like I had been electrocuted. My parents were (relatively) good at keeping my brother and I away from totally inappropriate films and TV shows (although the fact that he and I could recite the whole of Blazing Saddles from very early ages shows that they didn't catch everything), so I was in my mid-teens when RHPS first played out before my innocent little peepers.
I thought it was funny and weird all the way through Time Warp etc - and then Tim Curry appeared and that was it. It was all over. Life would never be the same again.
It's an absurd performance, really, but for me, then, it was the most extraordinary, wonderful, awful thing that I'd ever seen. I didn't know if I was in love or about to be sick. (Bit of both - which is how love feels.) He's strange looking, but completely beautiful. Was he a girl or a boy? Did it matter?
'Have you got any tattoos, Brad? No? Shame. What about you, Janet?' You have to watch it. It's the look he gives her.
It's a very peculiar film, and I've watched it so many times I can't watch it any more. But it occupies a very special place in my heart, and always will.
isn't it terrible - i never really got it. although i think it is hilarious. i think you need to be innocent and impressionable, just like you were too have a good wide-eyed moment. i file this with dirty dancing, grease, footloose and flashdance that noone told me i should be watching. shame tim curry is so hammy now.
ReplyDeletei do remember the first time i watched gypsy though. i was totally in love with natalie wood and wanted to be a stripper. another dream bites the dust...
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