Why Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) is Amazing!
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a musical comedy-drama play and film conceived by non-binary artists John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. The project deconstructs Aristophanes’ origin of love myth and the “gender binarchy” that limits human potential. This video serves as an analysis of the film’s soundtrack in relation to the narrative and real-world social politics.
Written, edited, and narrated by Jane Brown
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See Also:
► "IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (1978) - The (De)transgender Experience." 2021. • In a Year of 13 Moons ...
► "POSSESSION (1981) - Constructing Identities." 2021. • Possession (1981) - Co...
Chapters:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:26 - Tear Me Down
0:09:26 - Origin of Love
0:18:06 - Sugar Daddy
0:24:25 - Angry Inch
0:42:37 - Wig in a Box
0:47:57 - Wicked Little Town
1:01:59 - Hedwig's Lament / Exquisite Corpse
1:17:05 - Wicked Little Town (Reprise)
1:28:14 - Midnight Radio
1:34:11- Conclusion
1:37:46 - Credits
1:39:44 - Bonus
Bibliography:
► Abramovitch, Seth. “John Cameron Mitchell: ‘Hedwig’ is ‘Not Really a Trans Story.” The Hollywood Reporter. 2019.
► Clark, Connor. “John Cameron Mitchell Comes Out as Non-Binary After ‘Getting Flack’ for Playing Trans Character.” Gay Times. 2022.
► Henderson, Taylor. “Actor John Cameron Mitchell Comes Out as Non-Binary.” PRIDE. 2022.
► Keeps, David A. “To Gospel According to John Cameron Mitchell.” Los Angeles Magazine. 2022.
► Latif, Leila. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch: A Love Story that Broke Taboos.” BBC. 2021.
► Plato. Symposium. C. 385-370 BC.
► Weinert-Kendt, Rob. “John Cameron Mitchell and ‘Hedwig,’ Against the Binarchy.” American Theater. 2019.
Filmography:
► Almodóvar, Pedro. The Skin I Live In. 2011.
► Bradley, David J. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch Cracked My Egg.” 2021.
► Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. In a Year of 13 Moons. 1978.
► Fuentes, Elaine. MCI-LAX. 2023.
► Ghomeshi, Jian. Q. 2007-2023.
► Guadanigno, Luca. Call Me by Your Name. 2017.
► Hiltzik, Robert. Sleepaway Camp. 1983.
► LaBruce, Bruce. No Skin Off My Ass. 1991.
► Legband, Paul. A Man’s Girlhood. 1919.
► Livingston, Jennie. Paris is Burning. 1990.
► Masters, Jeffrey. LGBTQ&A. 2016-23.
► Mitchell, John Cameron. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 2001.
► Negret, Antonio. Riverdale: "Wicked Little Town." 2020.
► Oswald, Richard. Different From the Others. 1919.
► Peirce, Kimberly. Boys Don’t Cry. 1999.
► Raparaptor. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch - ‘The Origin of Love’ and Gender Queerness.” 2020.
► Sharman, Jim. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 1975.
► Soloway, Joey et al. Transparent. 2014-19.
► Waters, John. Pink Flamingos. 1972.
► Żuławski, Andrzej. Possession. 1981. - Фільми й анімація
This is without doubt my favorite channel.
I love how you kept me on the edge of my seat and vindicated my insecure patience. And reaffirmed my teenage taste.
This honestly makes me want to check it out, i had this on my trans/Gender non-comforming films watchlist and i never got around to it.
I got a different message. The whole movie was about how getting a sex change didn't solve anything. He did it to escape his problem. He got a sex change to escape East Germany and his fiance left him for a man with a big dick and the Berlin wall fell. People were dying to escape Socialism/Communism to freedom in the Capitalist society.
Now that he is a castrated gay man he has to figure out how to live his life - as a woman or a man. His dick is gone, so how does he define himself now? In the end hedwig goes back to being a man at the end.
Anyone who has had to deal with betrayed by those closest to you and heal the trauma can relate to Hedwig.
This is such a fantastic analysis; put into words to all my thoughts about how great and thoughtful HATAI is. also i cant believe riverdale is a real show
This movie has meant the world to me since I first saw it in 2002 and had no idea why the end made me cry so hard.
Have you figured it out since?
@@styleissubstance oh yes, I sure have!
so good!
Normalise Rick Worley Slander
It's not the first time and won't be the last time. We used to be friends but he started harassing me for months.
another stone cold banger
Where did you find the clip from 1:07:13?
Deleted scene.
Great video, as always.
I only have one question, not directly related to the film. You said something about religion slowly becoming less common, and mentioned the atheist message of the film, without really going too further into it, and in the first example, describing it as a good thing alongside trans people being more widely accepted.
I remember seeing those 3 videos of yours about your personal journey with film and politics, and in it you mentioned how you came from a secular environment but only started to become more progressive as you also started to experiment with spirituality, or something like that, and how Communists or the left ignore questions regarding the supernatural and things beyond our understanding such as god or religion, which you think is important. I don't fully remember, so sorry if I got something wrong.
My question is, are you personally spiritual, but don't belong to any religion? do you think it's okay for Atheism to become more commonplace, do you think there's something that will be missing from a secular world, and do you think certain fields such as psychology don't take spirituality into account when in fact they should?
Good memory. Whether there is a God or not, religion is a corrupt and oppressive power structure. Ideological corruption is not unique to religion, however. It is a tool that appeals to people's social sadomasochism martyr sensibilities, in order to condition the masses into zombies slaving away at the service of capitalism or whatever other system, all with the justification of "God says so."
I made those three vlogs in quarantine. I already knew I was transgender but I had considerable time to reflect on the parts of me that I have been repressing. Christianity led me to leftism, but mainly because I distrusted people's ability to effectively interpret and preach morality as outlined by Christianity. I grew skeptical of the Church and found personal fulfillment by seeking out answers. Eventually, I came to realize that I can be spiritually fulfilled without practicing Christianity or another form of self-imposed dogmatism bound to our understanding of theological truths.
Even in my own agnostic state, I am not convinced theology is behind me completely. What I do know is what is ahead of me, and theology isn't in my immediate view. Yes, countries are better off being atheistic in terms of governance. Religious nationalism is awful for everyone.
@@styleissubstance Thanks for your answer, sorry if I didn't write back sooner, my notifications didn't show your response even though it's been days.
What does spirituality and spiritual fulfillment mean to you?
Apropos of cruciform analysis and being saved from the Father, do you not inadvertently disclose an obscene "synthesis" in the Conclusion chapter? The sexual order is itself always already murky and operates by nothing but "transitioning", all flights from sex fundamentally being flights OF sex into proactive perversion (of sex itself, which has an abominable agency) relative to which the sexual order sanitizes an absolutely illusory "good sex"; a "meta" instantiation of the "good sex" whereby the phallus spends itself in its victim and is subsequently justified by the byproduct, by said byproduct becoming sexual, no less. Do you not suppose that, indeed, gender or trans people being as normal as women or children constitutes their very grafting onto the sexual order?