Jay Benedict

Jay Benedict

  • Born: 1951-4-11
  • Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Colten 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      "Victor/Victoria": The Story of a Fake Man Who Plays as a Woman

      http://blog.trivialfilm.com/2012/12/victorvictoria.html

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      This is the only non-winning film I've seen in recent months, but it gave me a lot of fun! It seems that the good and bad of a movie cannot be measured by awards at all. It's stupid to be superstitious about XX awards!

      The...

    • Salma 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      [Film Review] Victor Victoria (1982) 7.5/10

      Hollywood mainstream cinema's dichotomic gender conventions are rambunctiously breached in 1982, Sydney Pollack's TOOTSIE has a bruised male ego get a fresh start by purporting to be the opposite sex, and Blake Edwards' VICTOR VICTORIA is the obverse, a woman in drag, pretending to be a man who...

    • Alexzander 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      Orthodox Hollywood musical comedy is like a paper written in the most standard format, with precise words and sentences. The discussion of gender floats on the surface of simple and straightforward melodrama. Compared with the likes of Almodóvar and Ou Ron, there is less personal experience and emotional texture, and in many places, it is too conservative.

    • Dell 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      Tragedy isn't the only thing that reminds you of the beauty of life; a good comedy can be as contagious as it is to inspire excitement and admiration - who co-created such a classic? In 1995, the couple brought this story to Broadway, and the musical is still being staged around the world.

    Victor Victoria quotes

    • Victoria: Well it's probably for the best.

      King Marchand: That's as bad as "love is a two-way street."

      Victoria: What it lacks in originality it makes up for in prophecy.

    • King Marchand: [Looking to start a bar fight; to the bartender:] Milk.

      Bartender: [Sarcastically] Would that be cow's milk, monsieur, or mother's milk?

      King Marchand: How about your sister's?

      [Fight starts]