It was, but I reckon it would have been rather boring had it just been another male with an edge fighting hostiles.
Movies that play very differently when you switch the genders?
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It was, but I reckon it would have been rather boring had it just been another male with an edge fighting hostiles.
I actually performed in a fully realized stage production of Rocky where Frank, Riff Raff, and Eddie where played by girls. It worked surprisingly well.
That's the first one that popped into my head when I read the thread title.
And to top it off? It's supposed to be a comedy. It's a really fucked up movie.
I can't get past the idea of being raped by Isla Fisher.
"Miss Congeniality"
The entire movie is exactly the same except that the FBI agent they select is a male one with slight enough features that he could easily pass for female. If you watch what Sandra Bullock's character goes through in the course of her "transformation" into a beauty queen it's pretty much everything a man would have to go through to play the role of a woman.
Frank pulled out a strap-on to use on Brad, if that's what you're asking.
But, yeah.
It's not rape if you're drooling with anticipation.
It's not rape if you're drooling with anticipation.
Pfft. Tell my local DA that.
Knocked Up: Female lead impregnates a man, resulting in a very different movie.
"Junior?"
Given that the premise was that the alien was trying to reproduce, I think the male version would be a bit longer. Nine months longer...
Nah, it was a super-accelerated pregnancy scenario . . . .
I could stand to watch more of that
^Especially since it was originally going to be a vehicle for Tom Cruise. He just isn't enigmatic enough to convincingly play a character like Salt. Someone like Clive Owen might be more likely to make it work.
It almost teters on chauvanist propaganda. "See! This is what happens when you let a bunch of women into space!"
Somehow, I have a hard time seeing any rich woman being that sentimental. Or have I just been totally jaded about the romantic possibilities of male prostitution by The Man from Elysian Fields? (Of course, I don't think Pretty Woman works to begin with. Richard Gere seems to actually not like her that much and always seems too painfully aware of how much money he has.)
Yeah. Here's another example of that double standard in my favorite webcomic, Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire: http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-07-22 .
This one I have a much easier time imagining Jane Lynch in the lead role.
Making that change with Eddie probably wouldn't make any difference because Meatloaf already kinda looks like a real ugly, butch lesbian anyway. Riff-Raff isn't so overly sexualized, so it wouldn't really matter. But if you make Frank a woman without doing the same for Rocky, then you take the gayest character in the history of musical theater and turn it straight. (But then, if you turn Rocky into a woman, do you also switch who Brad & Janet end up sleeping with?)
It almost teters on chauvanist propaganda. "See! This is what happens when you let a bunch of women into space!"
Somehow, I have a hard time seeing any rich woman being that sentimental. Or have I just been totally jaded about the romantic possibilities of male prostitution by The Man from Elysian Fields? (Of course, I don't think Pretty Woman works to begin with. Richard Gere seems to actually not like her that much and always seems too painfully aware of how much money he has.)
Yeah. Here's another example of that double standard in my favorite webcomic, Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire: http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-07-22 .
This one I have a much easier time imagining Jane Lynch in the lead role.
Making that change with Eddie probably wouldn't make any difference because Meatloaf already kinda looks like a real ugly, butch lesbian anyway. Riff-Raff isn't so overly sexualized, so it wouldn't really matter. But if you make Frank a woman without doing the same for Rocky, then you take the gayest character in the history of musical theater and turn it straight. (But then, if you turn Rocky into a woman, do you also switch who Brad & Janet end up sleeping with?)