I wonder if it’s possible to write a successful Anti-Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show. Not, like, a homophobia fascism thing! an...
I wonder if it’s possible to write a successful Anti-Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show.
Not, like, a homophobia fascism thing! an awesome order and anchoring thing!
Is it possible for such a thing to exist?
Sparkly gay patriotic traditionalism?
Not specifically or primarily gay traditionalism but I think you may get the idea.
(Also not specifically patriotic, but you may…)
This got me thinking.
I could definitely see something where… Brad and Janet, instead of being striaght-laced suburban prudes, are hipsterish, aimless urbanites, whose most outstanding flaw is not their naivete or their uptightness but their casual nihilism, their “lol nothing matters”, and its attendant lack of fire-in-the-belly.
and in the place of Dr.Frank-N-Furter there would be some sort of… Half-Mad but Terribly Earnest Knight, or a Fatherly, Jovial Barbarian King. Someone who represented traditionalism not as something “Miserable but Good For You”, forced down upon you by the powers-that-be, but traditionalism as… the opportunity to shed the malaise of modernist meaninglessness. (in the same sense that Dr.F-N-F’s hedonism was the opportunity to shed hypocritical notions of propriety) Not “you must believe, or else”, but “look, here is something worth believing in, if you dare to.”
and instead of a hidden castle full of hedonists, it would be… something like the secret meeting place of a knightly order.
Maybe the motif of combat in place of the motif of sex. Confronting the modern man’s overwhelming fear of physical pain, and introducing him to something he never thought he could feel– the thrill of battle.
Am I…. hitting the right notes here?