cross dressing
i haven't seen this movie, but is there cross-dressing (male/female) in it?
shareOh, mais oui.
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yes but it is not tranvestitism. Some of the soldiers impersonate women for a music performance and one person dresses as a woman to escape the guards.
shareThe main cross-dressing is when English officers impersonate music-hall girls in a skit. This kind of thing is very standard in England, although it usually strikes Americans as a bit bizarre. (There's another example in the Blackadder segment "Major Star".)
shareSpot on - English people often cross-dressed as a "skit" in the first half of teh twentieth century.
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Men in war don't find it so "weird." There are numerous examples in American films of "shows" put on by servicemen away from home. Men dressing as women in such shows is more of a tradition than an aberration.
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Goes all the way back to Shakespeare's time, if not before.
shareWeird question to ask! What kind of war film would it be without cross-dressing?
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shareLOL billdove.
When I saw this in my French Cinema class, the other students about killed themselves laughing. I didn't understand what the big frugging deal was. The above discussion helps-- I grew up on Monty Python and Black Adder.
In "Stalag 17" the character Shapiro dresses up as Betty Grable at a Christmas party because no one will dance with him. As said above, it's pretty typical soldierly cutting=up.
Yes and it was such fun! The thrill of the men when they opened the trunk of women's clothing and the way all fell silent when one young man appeared in full female dress were brilliant moments.
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