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Genre | Gay & Lesbian Video |
Format | Anamorphic, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Subtitled, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | Roger C. Carmel, Mae West, Calvin Lockhart, Roger Herren, Rex Reed, Andy Devine, Jim Backus, John Huston, Michael Sarne, John Carradine, Raquel Welch, David Giler, Gore Vidal, Farrah Fawcett, George Furth See more |
Language | English, Spanish |
Runtime | 1 hour and 34 minutes |
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Product Description
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After heading to Europe for a sex change operation, Myron Breckinridge returns to America as Myra, a man hating woman after her uncle's fortune.
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish/misc SA
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-MAR-2004
Media Type: DVD
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We can safely call it one of the most notorious films in Hollywood history: Myra Breckenridge, the wild, tasteless, legendary disaster. Sprung from a novel by Gore Vidal, Myra tells the tender tale of a man (damply played by film critic Rex Reed) who has a sex-change operation and goes to Hollywood as a woman--played by Raquel Welch. Mae West creaked out of retirement to play a man-hungry agent (one of her meals is young Tom Selleck), and John Huston is an aging cowboy star, Myra's nemesis. To say the movie endorses the destruction of sex roles in modern society would be giving the rampant incoherence too much credit. Old film clips, plus footage (all too apt!) of atomic bomb tests are spliced into the action, to puerile effect. Almost everybody involved with the film disowned it, especially a horrified Vidal. Is there a cult for this movie? They can have it. --Robert Horton
Set Contains:
Pretty good extras for a celebrated bomb, including an AMC "Backstory" episode detailing the disintegration of shooting, a director's commentary by Michael Sarne (the man most credited for the train wreck), and a bewildered but amused commentary by Raquel Welch, who explains that she thought she was going to play both male and female roles when she signed on for the picture. It couldn't have hurt. --Robert Horton
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.88 ounces
- Director : Michael Sarne
- Media Format : Anamorphic, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Subtitled, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 34 minutes
- Release date : March 9, 2004
- Actors : Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B00018D3YQ
- Writers : David Giler, Gore Vidal, Michael Sarne
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #101,752 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #306 in LGBT (Movies & TV)
- #1,214 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV)
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It was later reported that script changes were a daily occurance and the cast and crew lost track of what the movie was supposed to be and where it was going. They just set up and ran each day with what they had.
It warrants five stars from me just because in spite of how bad it is, it's just plain fun to watch. It also gets five stars for the performances of three of the actors. John Huston, Raquel Welch, and a very young and tender Farrah Fawcett are all just plain magnificent. Huston is such a phony, over the top fake and blowhard you crack up just watching him. He is perfect in this role.
Raquel is magnificent. Sometimes she's a corny sitcom stereotype trapped in a really stupid Saturday Night Live skit. Sometimes she's a deadly soap opera vixen. Sometimes she's a sweet girl next door who has figured out that she is the most beautiful woman in the entire galaxy and decides to go for a piece of the pie while she can. Her seamless stitching together of these roles shows up how awful and inconsistent was the script and direction with which she had to work. She did later admit that she liked her own work in this movie, altho being a good actor in a really bad movie is not the best way to build a successful career.
Unbelievably sweet and gentle, a young Farrah Fawcett just breaks your heart and she delivers the best tagline of all when, refusing to succumb to Myra's attempted seduction, quietly whispers to her "If only you were a man!" If you understand the premise and what's going on up to this point, this line is perfect.
Top billed Mae West, at 77, is a horrid caricature of herself, and her scenes and story line have nothing to do with the rest of the movie. She does sing one full length production number with orchestra and backup dancers and she still has the chops for this piece. It was reported that her presence on the set was disruptive and she caused turmoil by refusing to show up for work before 5:00 pm and demanding a costume change for Myra which was finally refused. The costume in question is the jet black dress worn by Myra in their only scene together. Mae didn't want it in the scene, but Raquel refused to change it.
Rex Reed is perfectly cast but his character is quickly confusing and distracting and some viewers likely will not even realize what he is, which is an ephemeral vision seen only by Myra or the viewers but not by the other characters. His presence is one of several conceptual failures in this movie.
The DVD and audio are perfect, and the way to experience this movie is first to watch it all the way, thru, and then again. later, watch it again with Raquel's commentary on the soundtrack. Her after the fact insight is delightful and helps the viewer understand what he is seeing.
If you want to watch a really fun movie which is so bad it's wonderful, this with three killer good acting jobs by three superb actors, get this movie!
I'd read bits and pieces on the fraught production and general notoriety. People say the book is better, but the movie is a fascinating curate's egg. If not a little odd.
Yup. Recuts and audio dubs are quite prominent. Lots of selective and inconsistent audio bleeps as well. And plenty of linguistic material that earned its "R" rating at the time.
Not to mention people smoking in hospitals.
Raquelle Welch and Rex Reed are amazing in this, but there is nary a bad performance.
But I will say, Mae West is hysterically funny in this, upstanding everyone else at the time.
It is so bizarre, offensive, surreal,
inoffensive, goofily edited, open to interpretation, gloriously self-aware, open to misinterpretation, over the top, weird, goofily edited, insatiably ridiculous, goofily edited and perfectly acted, it was the sort of flaming train wreck that manages to hold one's attention despite it all. The only thing missing are the marshmallows.
Did I say this was goofily edited, with scenes intercut with old movie clips? That's part of the charm.
Wish this came out on blu-ray.
But all that said, it still is a relic from 1970. The weirdest era for movies in general.
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