Chase: Hey guys! Today I am talking to you about the Rocky Horror Picture Show remake.
I just wanted to put this wig on honestly because I just bought it because, like, Halloween and stuff like that
but I'm not going to keep on during the video, but it looks good on me, right? Like, legit, I miss my pink hair so
much. I think I'm gonna grow out my hair. I feel right when I wear this wig. I feel right. Is that weird?
Maybe I'm just not tr- maybe I'm non-binary. Sorry I'm just talking shit cuz I did make a video recently about
non-binary identities. Y'all should watch that [laughs]
Okay, we're good now. This is my real hair this isn't a wig. I know that it matches the background, but like, I need to
change that. Um today, yes, I'm talking about Rocky Horror and the horror that is the remake.
So, if you've never seen, I don't even know why I'm putting a spoiler alert honestly because, like, the remake,
not the remake, the original, was SO long ago, um, but if you don't want, if you, honestly watch it before you have
my reaction to it maybe? I don't know. Let's just go into it.
So, Rocky Horror Picture Show hasn't been like, pivotal in my identity and I knew about when I was 10, nothing like
that. I actually only found out about Rocky Horror 5 years ago when I ended up going to the show on
Halloween, where they do, where like the audience participates and stuff like that, and seeing that and the
audience participation to a movie that to me seems so weird to society and, but society was okay with it.
It was like, moving for me. So it is, kinda I guess, pivotal in my identity and like, understanding that like, the world
is okay with SOME things that are weird and, kind of not really, not everyone loves this movie, but I just, I don't
know, I- I really loved it. I really love Rocky Horror Picture Show. Um, because I really like weird things, and I think
that for the time that it was made, it is incredible that it is STILL so popular. Do you know what I'm saying?
I don't know. Let's just- I want- I just really wanna talk about the remake.
So I legit never write the script for my videos EVER. I can't. I can't read. Some people read scripts, like Kat
Blaque, I think even has a teleprompter. 'Bless' her. I can't do it. I have notes though, because I feel like I go on
and I don't want this to be a hundred year video so I have little notes. So, I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about my
impressions of it first. So, it's a remake done by Fox, okay, and I was like 'oh Fox, it's gonna be on TV,
like, they're not going to be able to show everything.' This movie is super sexual, super queer, super like, it,
it walks on the line of inappropriate and not. You know, and I was like hm. But Fox has also produced all those
weirdo shows, like, the, I'm pretty sure Scream Queens is on, um, Fox, and isn't American Horror Story a Fox
production? Is- I think- I think it is. And that is some spooky ass shit. Maybe it's not. I don't think it's Fox.
Oh my god I'm like all over the place sorry. I should really google that.
Whatever. Fox has produced some really bad things but some really, like, weird things, and some really gory
things. So, I don't know, I figured, I was like [tss sound] I don't know, this isn't going to go well for us.
Um, and then I found out that Laverne Cox was actually gonna play the role of Doctor Frank. N. Furter and yo, my
first initial reaction was 'what the fuck'. Literally I was like 'why is a man being played by a woman who is trans'.
I was like 'this is so inappropriate'. But then I was like 'you know what, she accepted the role, she knows what
she's doing. I trust her'. This is what I said to myself. I trust her. Literally. So I was like 'well just wait, I'm excited
to see how it looks cuz I love Rocky Horror, the remake and the sequals and whatever, any type of movie are
never as good as the first' BUT I was giving it a chance okay. I don't wanna be super critical in the beginning.
Ahhh, but then I watched it. So it was me, Zuzia and Ash and we were all sittin in my room and we all sighed and
said 'alright, let's do this'. Not, you know, giving it a chance. I was giving it a chance, especially me. So we
started playing it and I'm going to say that I was very confused by what time in, like, what-what time
what time- time? What time? Like, what year are we supposed to be in? Because they were mixing a lot of
things from like, the 50s, the 70s and now. So, it was really confusing and maybe that was their plan, to do like
like, futuristic and present and past. Maybe that's what they wanted to do because Rocky Horror is kinda weird
and I could understand that they could do that but like, yo, it was confusing as hell. But not to make this video
super long, I wanna focus on one aspect that really really really really bothered me. So we had to pause the movie
um, multiple times throughout watching it because we just needed to rant, honestly. And one of the things that I
realised throughout the entire film was, or the remake, I don't know if they were categorising it as a film, um, is
that it's super straight, and that bothered me. And it doesn't like, it's not like, it's not. Let me talk here.
It doesn't bother me because, like, I'm queer and I don't wanna see straight people, or I don't want things to be
straightified, but like, yo, if you watch the original Rocky Horror, so many people have been able to identify with
certain parts of this movie and be like 'oh it's okay to be queer. It's okay that like, I identify as this and I'm kinda
weird and I should' whatever. Blah blah. But, it really bothered me that there were certain aspects of the film
that because Laverne Cox is a woman, they changed so much of the script and I get it. It's a remake. It's not
supposed to be copy paste. But yo, you're using like, almost all the same lines, like [eek] I can't.
So, because Laverne Cox is a woman, they changed all of the lines to 'she', instead of referrring as Doctor
Frank N Furter as 'he'. I literally did not notice this until the end. I was like 'wait a minute did they just say she?'
and they were like 'yesss?' Um, but like, what really bothered me is, okay so, there is a scene in the film
where Doctor Frank N Furter goes up to Janet's bed when Janet is sleeping, and yeah there is like, it's kinda
sexual assaulty and, um, because like he doesn't like force himself on um, Janet or Brad for that matter but it
is kind of like 'oh, no I don't want to' 'oh, yes you should' 'oh okay', like it's not very consenty but the point of that
scene is that Doctor Frank N Furter is a man and he's strange and he is like a transsexual transvestite from
you know, Transylvania, like it's kind of confusing but it's okay because his character is confusing and kind of
breaks these gender lines. And he goes into bed and we assume that they have sex or something happens and he
does Janet. Something like that. But then, the scene right after is that he does the same thing to Brad. So he goes
into bed with Brad and Brad's like 'oh, never, I would never, I have never' but then he's like 'but doesn't it feel
good' and they end up doing something and after you see a scene of like, Brad smoking so you assume they
had sex. So the fact that it was like, Brad having sex with a man was like [gasps] 'so scandal' but in the remake
Laverne Cox is a woman and they really desexualised this completely, because like, in the movie, in the original
um, Doctor Frank N Furter is like 'but do you want him to see you like this?' and like lifts up the leg of Janet and it
like, he's on top of her but in the remake it's like 'but would you want him to see you like this?' and he just
slaps her ass. Um, he, sorry, I mean Doctor Frank N Furter, Laverne Cox, she. But um, it was just so
desexualised and so straight and I say that because maybe, and this is my theory, I don't fucking know if
people agree with me, maybe I'm just stretching it a lil too much, but it's okay for two lesbians to be on TV and
like, 'oh I'm cheating on my husband with a girl but it's okay because it's a girl' cuz you know, Janet and Laverne
Cox. Cool. But then you have Brad, and if Doctor Frank N Furter was male do you honestly think that they would
put that on TV? Like I know it's 2016 and I know that like, Fox created Glee and Glee is like, the gayest show ever,
but still, I don't know. I- I couldn't help but like, analyse this too m- I mean, I'm analysing it too much I know
but it was just something that really bothered me where, since Doctor Frank N Furter is now a woman and goes to
sleep with Brad, it's a straight thing and when you find out that Janet had sex with Rocky and it's like super
scandalous, she like finds out that Brad also had sex with Laverne Cox or Doctor Frank N Furter and it's like
the most scandalous thing ever and it just- it doesn't make sense because in the original, it makes more sense
because it was like, a man so yeah she would be scandal- I don't know. I don't know. I'm I'm- yeah.
Anyway let's move on from that. Um, I think that the remake is just like an insult honestly, to the original and
it is not sexual at all, and Laverne Cox's outfit is just like, hiding everything, whereas Dr Frank N Furter in the original
is very sexy [laughs]. Um and I honestly feel like there are so many little things that are not included that kinda
make the movie, like um, Riff Raff and Magenta doing that like, elbow thing which is like, kind of incesty, like
that wasn't in the remake. Why wasn't it? And, I don't know. Um I just feel like I had so many more feelings
about this and now they just kinda like [laughs], like I just, yeah I don't know.
Anyways, honestly, like, I don't wanna make this video like, super long but um, I feel like the remake is extremely
straight and extremely not sexual and it hurts, but when I was watching it, it made me really excited to see the original
Rocky Horror, which I did rewatch two days ago. That's why I wanna make this video um, because rewatching
the original after seeing the remake is like a breath of fresh air and I don't think I will ever watch the remake again.
And yeah, that happens to a lot of things that are remade but I'm so disappointed and it is so scary that so many people,
this is gonna be their first experience with Rocky Horror and they're gonna get this like, super washed-down,
super, super washed-down like, straight version of Rocky Horror, and that just sucks for me. Like, especially like,
Dr Frank N Furter literally makes a man in the original. That is so gay. Because like, it's a man with a man and
like yeah sure, Dr Frank N Furter like, kinda crosses those lines of gender, like 'oh' but you could still know
that it's a man. They use he pronouns, like whatever let's not even get into gender policing and stuff like that.
But in the original, Laverne Cox is a woman, uh the original, the remake and it's not her fault. It's not her fault
She didn't write this. She's playing a character and she's even said like 'I don't always play characters I identify with'.
Cool. Whatever. Um, but it just sucks so bad that because Dr Frank N Furter is now a woman that creating
a man is like 'oh that's, yeah that's fine cuz it's like a straight thing' and yeah maybe the role had been offered
to a male person who maybe rejected it, which I think happened. I think Adam Lambert was actually offered
the role. I don't know if that's true though I saw it on the internet, the internet makes up a lot of shit though.
And he rejected the role saying that it shouldn't be like, a white, cis guy to do it. Cool. Awesome. Um, and he was given
another part. He was given the part of Meatloaf. What's? Eddie? Eddie. Meatloaf? Um, but I don't know. I feel like
casting a woman as Dr Frank N Furter was just very problematic because now you had to change the entire script
and the new audience and people watching this won't see this as a queer film anymore. And I think that that's
the issue. And maybe you don't like, see the original as a queer film but I know that I do and I know that a lot of people
do and I know that people who go to the shows um, to watch it and the audience participation identify it as a queer film.
Um, even if they don't identify as queer but it's just. I don't know. Maybe I'm gonna get in trouble for this [laughs]
But you guys, maybe you don't agree with me. Maybe you absolutely loved it, but I thought it was a shit show
and I can't even tell you one part of it that I liked. Um, I found that the music was loud, like the music was louder
than their singing and um, it was hard to like, hear them sometimes and it's just, I don't know. Or maybe, no that's
the opposite. The singing- I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to say. Um, I'm just disappointed and I
wish that it had been done better or not at all. But I get it. Bring something new to like, a whole new generation of people
who don't even know what it is, but now they think it's like a, I don't know. Now I feel like if they watch the original
they'll just see like, a bunch of weirdos. Like, yo, even the people in the background, like I don't even know what
they're called though, like the audience or the people who are going to like, see the unravelling of Rocky
they're not even- they're not even that weird. Yo, you look at the original. I will say one thing. Holy shit I forgot even
to mention this. I will say one thing okay. Very happy, very happy with the- with the um, what's the opposite of lack?
Not lack but like, with- with the diverse, with the amount of diversity of people in the new version, okay. I will say that
Super happy. Laverne Cox is black, um, the criminologist, no not the criminologist. Oh my god what's his name?
Okay, I can't remember him. Um, but um, there's other characters. The people in the background, they're also
like, a mixed diverse. There's a lot of people who are black in the remake. Which is fuck, yes cuz there's like
no representation. You literally watch the original, which I watched and I was like 'oh my god I didn't even notice'
but there's one person who is black in the background of that audience, when they're unravelling Rocky or whatever.
One. And I was like 'that's it?' [inhales]. I get it. It's like, another time and stuff, it's like the 70s but still, I err
Um, but I don't know. It just, um, I am really happy that there was a lot of diversity but I feel like if they didn't do
that they would have got in even more trouble. Like honestly, like, come on it's 2016 don't you fucking dare
just put white faces on this. Um, but yeah. So I'm glad that they had a little bit more diversity than the original
but that's probably the only good thing about it. Uh, please watch it and if you have watched it, please let me know
your comments. I'm saying like, watch it if you want to and comment on this video. But yeah, let's have a conversation
about this. Let me know what you think and we will uh, talk about it later. Alright, don't forget to watch my other videos
with this background where I kinda like, rant about things and like talk shit. I'm scared that everyone's gonna hate me.
But I love you, so have a great week. Bye.