Rocky Horror Picture Show Essay
Jasmine Garcia
Tim Garnica
Theatre 150 Summer
Professor Breit
Aug 11, 2010
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Musical/Cult Classic 1975 R
A story of creation, love, hate, adventure, and, most of all, sex; the story begins in Denton, Ohio as Brad Majors and Janet Weiss ( Dammit Janet), after getting engaged, travel to see "the man who began it," Dr. Scott, but wind up at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite alien from the planet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania (Sweet Transvestite). And they meet Riff Raff, Magenta, and Columbia which leads to "doing the Time Warp again!" They discover they have been there on a "special night." Frank's creation is to be born! As Rocky has been revealed (Sword of Damocles / I Can Make You A Man), rebel Eddie, Frank's last-recent creation, ponders in on his motorcycle (Hot Patootie-Bless My Soul) whom Frank kills. In comes Dr. Everett Von Scott, he's come for Eddie (Eddie's Teddy) which results in the discovery of …show more content…
"Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh. Erotic nightmares beyond any measure...."Don't dream it. Be it. Don't dream it. Be it...." ...."Don't dream it. Be it. Don't dream it. Be it...." Such an interpretation, of course, is close to the conservative claims that the media are the corrupters of youth and culture. Frank-N-Furter here appears as a brilliantly Satanic figure who indulges in the essence of evil in which he shamelessly reveals in his own corruption and corrupting influence.But The Rocky Horror Picture Show also offers a way out, although it provides us with only the slightest information to understand what it is telling us. While Brad is undone by his exposure to the mad hedonism and shamelessness of Frank-N-Furter, Janet is freed by it. It is obvious that, as a result of her experience, she will neither be mad like Frank-N-Furter nor boringly traditional and narrow-minded, as she and Brad were when they
Tim Garnica
Theatre 150 Summer
Professor Breit
Aug 11, 2010
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Musical/Cult Classic 1975 R
A story of creation, love, hate, adventure, and, most of all, sex; the story begins in Denton, Ohio as Brad Majors and Janet Weiss ( Dammit Janet), after getting engaged, travel to see "the man who began it," Dr. Scott, but wind up at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite alien from the planet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania (Sweet Transvestite). And they meet Riff Raff, Magenta, and Columbia which leads to "doing the Time Warp again!" They discover they have been there on a "special night." Frank's creation is to be born! As Rocky has been revealed (Sword of Damocles / I Can Make You A Man), rebel Eddie, Frank's last-recent creation, ponders in on his motorcycle (Hot Patootie-Bless My Soul) whom Frank kills. In comes Dr. Everett Von Scott, he's come for Eddie (Eddie's Teddy) which results in the discovery of …show more content…
"Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh. Erotic nightmares beyond any measure...."Don't dream it. Be it. Don't dream it. Be it...." ...."Don't dream it. Be it. Don't dream it. Be it...." Such an interpretation, of course, is close to the conservative claims that the media are the corrupters of youth and culture. Frank-N-Furter here appears as a brilliantly Satanic figure who indulges in the essence of evil in which he shamelessly reveals in his own corruption and corrupting influence.But The Rocky Horror Picture Show also offers a way out, although it provides us with only the slightest information to understand what it is telling us. While Brad is undone by his exposure to the mad hedonism and shamelessness of Frank-N-Furter, Janet is freed by it. It is obvious that, as a result of her experience, she will neither be mad like Frank-N-Furter nor boringly traditional and narrow-minded, as she and Brad were when they