Happiness is not easy! (c) There is one detail in The Rocky Horror Show that spoiled my impression of the film. I remember the dislike of Selma, the heroine of Dancing in the Dark, for the songs that end musicals. She said she didn't check them out, leaving on the penultimate song so the stories would never end for her. So in this "Show of horror" the last song erased everything that happened in the house of Frank Futter. There are words in it that the villains were punished and justice prevailed, and the lovers were reunited, causing me bewilderment.
Brad and Janet become hostages of circumstances and are forced to spend the night in Frank Futter's castle, which is too eccentric even for the owner of a huge, standing in the wilderness of the castle. And on the first night he and both succumb to the charm of the "hospitable" owner.
The lovers, reunited at the end of the film, at the first difficulty run away from each other, hide behind each other at best, at worst – overcome difficulties alone. Everything that happened in the castle seems to me a kind of test of the strength of their union, arranged by a succubus or a deity. And the test, which the main characters of the legends pass with honor and dignity, Janet and Brad do not stand. Moreover, because of pretense or intentional sincerity, which is appropriately called looseness (suffice it to recall the scene where Janet seduces Rocky), this couple want to write in negative characters. Is this called justice?
But Frank Futter himself, a seducer who came from the glorious planet of Transylvania, I want to compare... with Old Gregg from The Mighty Boosh. And they are similar to an absolutely sincere desire to find love, lowered, however, to a very primitive level. And this desire is combined with the cruelty with which Frank and Gregg are ready to hold the object of love or eliminate the obstructors. Frank can deceive, cheat, but in the most important, he is honest, and this causes sympathy.
And so the villains seem to me servants who decided to go to their home planet, and so suddenly rebelled. Brad and Janet do not cause positive emotions, but Frank is so charming that the tongue does not turn to call him a villain.
However, I admire charming villains. And movies full of music, brilliance and gracefully served absurdity.
9 out of 10 Original