The Worst...?
Something that Katya asked about the nominations for the Best Tranny Movie ever:
The Silence of the Lambs is a prime example of the "tranny = weird loner" cliche, but at the same time I'd argue that it's a good film. It's genuinely scary, tense and disturbing; and I enjoyed it a lot when it came out. The fact that the killer is a "transsexual" didn't detract from the film for me. I don't think it coloured my opinion of transsexuals. Even when I first saw it I realised that Buffallo Bill was no more a true representation of a TS than Bugs Bunny is a true representation of a rabbit.
Alternatively there are films like "Just Like a Woman", which by most yardsticks is pretty bad. Plodding plot, bad acting and the most tacked-on action ending ever. But simply because it was the first mainstream film I ever saw about "normal" British transvestites makes it an influential film from my childhood.
Films with trannies in serve multiple purposes. For "new" TG's they provide role-models, and good old-fashioned tranny jollies. For "educated" TGs, they're a talking point and maybe in rare cases offer an insight into their own "Tranny Condition". The most recent movie that "spoke" to me as a TV was Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with it's powerful idea that "putting on the wig" was a way for Hedwig to protect herself from the real world, even if in the end she realised she didn't really need it.
So I know that the results of the poll won't really be a definitive list of truly great films about transgenderism. Some of them will be box-office clangers, and others will feature hopelessly cliched TG portrayals. What I'm hoping is when I publish the list people will talk about what the films represent to them, and that might just tell us all a little bit more about what being a tranny means.
There's still time to nominate, if you'd like to take part!
"Could you do a worst Trans* movie in the world ever too, with the most cliched and damaging portrayal of Trans characters ranked? The list would be endless."I've thought about it, and it depends how you define "worst". Yes, there are some terrible examples of cliched portrayals of trannies as psychopathic killers (where the cross-dressing nature of the murderer is used as short-hand for their "weirdness") or sexual deviants or worse.
The Silence of the Lambs is a prime example of the "tranny = weird loner" cliche, but at the same time I'd argue that it's a good film. It's genuinely scary, tense and disturbing; and I enjoyed it a lot when it came out. The fact that the killer is a "transsexual" didn't detract from the film for me. I don't think it coloured my opinion of transsexuals. Even when I first saw it I realised that Buffallo Bill was no more a true representation of a TS than Bugs Bunny is a true representation of a rabbit.
Alternatively there are films like "Just Like a Woman", which by most yardsticks is pretty bad. Plodding plot, bad acting and the most tacked-on action ending ever. But simply because it was the first mainstream film I ever saw about "normal" British transvestites makes it an influential film from my childhood.
Films with trannies in serve multiple purposes. For "new" TG's they provide role-models, and good old-fashioned tranny jollies. For "educated" TGs, they're a talking point and maybe in rare cases offer an insight into their own "Tranny Condition". The most recent movie that "spoke" to me as a TV was Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with it's powerful idea that "putting on the wig" was a way for Hedwig to protect herself from the real world, even if in the end she realised she didn't really need it.
So I know that the results of the poll won't really be a definitive list of truly great films about transgenderism. Some of them will be box-office clangers, and others will feature hopelessly cliched TG portrayals. What I'm hoping is when I publish the list people will talk about what the films represent to them, and that might just tell us all a little bit more about what being a tranny means.
There's still time to nominate, if you'd like to take part!
the worst tranny movie ever
At the End of the Site is a link to the Video.
I guess, noone will find a Movie which ist more worst and gruesome than that. I think that's the definately worst.
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