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Could the subject matter be told today?

posted 9 years ago by mlhmovies
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As I was watching this I was thinking 'now THIS is the type of film I'd like to see remade, not many people know of it and it could still shock today's audiences'
But then I got to tthinking about the subject matter and political correctness and I thought...could this stroy actually be told today!
Transgender is something that now we understand and accept and actually to most of us it's just another part of life!
However thinking back to the early nineties when Hollywood was experiencing such homophobic/transphobic stigma with films like Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct, how tollorant would the LGBT community be if a film focusing on a transgender psychopath was remade?

The stigma with previous movies was 'Hollywood makes out that all the psychos and serial killers are gay/trans etc' Not strictly the case of course, but on the backs of two big nineties blockbusters it was something that was a big part of awareness and acceptance!

Of course here we have a film that is based around a repressed transgender character who kills out of repression and desperation, back in the 60s it was easy to pass it off as a depthless reason to give a character motive to commit serial murders, but I don't think it could be done today!

What do we think people?

[–] omalley-10 8 years ago

I think that contrary to being seen as anti-transgender, this film would be embraced by that community (though I say this as an outsider). The fact that Warren was forced to live since infancy as the "wrong" gender is at the heart of all the trouble. An actual transgender child is usually forced to live with their birth gender, which was not the case with Warren, but the point of being forced into an unnatural gender, is the same.