I should have been sleeping so I could get up in what is now, ohh... 3 hours so I could go to Disney. But instead, I was glued to this, i dunno wtf movie that I just watched. And now I wont sleep probably for a week. And I am not sure if it is because my brain melted or if its because it cannot grasp the sheer amount of awesome it just absorbed.
Me!!! Been trying to watch this for YEARS and finally got my chance with TCM. Very fun film and wish there could be more movies that utilize this approach to filmmaking-- too bad my DVD-Recorder decided to kick out midway through the movie.
sharei stumbled across it.
so nice to have a thing like the internet now.
could you imagine flipping this movie on with no reference or info at all?
Criterion should put this out.
It was... bizarre. Yet held my interest. Usually I doze off and wake up once the movie has long ended, but I was actually wide awake all the way through this one.
It is... something else.
One question: was Pearl a woman? Or a man who dressed as a woman?
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Pearl was played by David Carradine (most recently Bill in Tarrantino's Kill Bill films).
As odd as the film is, maybe he is actually supposed to be a woman.
I missed the first, so it may have been explained at the beginning.
there is one scene where's Pearl's "bulge" is seen clearly through "her" dress. I believe she is supposed to be a man dressed as a woman. Which of course means Slue had some odd sexual tastes for one of his supposed machismo.
shareI think it plays into the wackiness (major understatement) of Slue and Pearl if Pearl is in fact a man in drag.
If Pearl is a woman, then she is just a horrendously masculine woman. But being a man in drag brings their characters to a different level.
I would, though, like to know what kind of town would be so messed up to be totally under the sway of one man like Slue.
Odd movie.
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Now they must get everything back. And the real terror begins...
go to the TCM Underground page.
they go more in depth than i realized and even comment on your question directly - i believe it said in the script it was plainly stated that it was a man dressed as a woman, but it's never brought into question in the actual film.
it also said the director had no say in the editing process.
i wish Criterion would do it and have a director's cut as well.
Although nobody ever speaks up to question the idea that Pearl is a woman, we're shown that she feeds the baby by awkwardly rigging a bottle inside her dress, so it seems that the film isn't asking the audience to accept her as a natural woman.
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