Chapter 10 Ideology
Camp sensibility is particularly related to gay culture, although it is not unique to that culture. Heterosexual actresses such as May Huis, ugly actresses Carol Burnett and Bette Midler all have this aspect. It is not all the characteristics of homosexuality. For example, Eisenstein, Murnau, Jean Vigo and George Cook are all homosexuals, but their films are not "Camp" at all. (Well, maybe Cook's "Women" count it!) Almodovar is a leader, his comedies such as "Matador" (Matador), "Missed Woman" and "All About My Mother" "All of them are full of "Camp" fun.
Camp movies like to use fun to mock and often put some weird and bold characters in the film, such as the characters in the cult film "Rocky Horror Show". Camp likes to use excessive artistic and artificial processing. , Kitsch, gorgeous-such as Carmen Miranda, who danced in "The Great Friends" with a big basket of bananas, her dance was also edited by Kan master Bersby Berkeley.
Camp also uses a lot of stage metaphors: role-playing, robbing performances, and life-like metaphors, such as Sonia Bragg's tortured heroine in "The Kiss of Spider-Woman". In addition, the gorgeous and tacky sets and costumes (with crude taste) are also Camp’s taste. Camp exalts certain actresses as "little fans" idols, especially the fancy woman movies played by Joan Crawford and Ratner. The original serious characters were made full of craftsmanship by them, and they were all suffering victims, but survived. The important thing is that they not only endured hardships, but also lived in luxurious mansions wearing designer costumes.
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