The Rocky Horror Picture Show Analysis

“I’m just a sweet transvestite, from transsexual Transylvania,” Lyrics like these shocked audiences around the world in the mid-70’s. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” a culture shock that now has grown into a pop culture classic was received with mixed reviews and unimpressive box office appeal. The musical comedy-satire-spoof of the horror/sci-fi genre was released nationwide September 1975 with advance screenings in cities like London and Los Angeles. Sadly the success of the film didn’t begin until 1976, especially since around the same time movies like “Jaws” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” were dominating the box office. It later moved to midnight showings on Friday and Saturday nights which is where it quickly gained cult film
Like Dr. Frankenstein, only fiercer, he creates a “simulation” of the perfect male specimen: Rocky Horror, whose sole reason of creation was for release and acting out sexual desires. Frank’s world is full of oxymorons, where everything pretends it’s something else and where parts of past films paste a never-ending, theatrical old-time burlesque show. Pop Culture, Like Frank-N-Furter are obsessed with Sex and Violence. Society Turns violence and sex into spectacles for all to enjoy, like violent videos games and daytime talk shows about infidelity for
Frank-N-Furter: “He'll do press-ups and chin-ups do the snatch, clean, and jerk he thinks dynamic tension must be hard work such strenuous living I just don't understand. When in just seven days. Oh, baby I can make you a man,” became the most sold mail order product in history and was even featured in comic books. The ads slogan was even “in just seven days I can make you a man!” Another famous bodybuilder, Steve Reeves, who was most notable for his role in “Hercules,” became a gay icon of the late 50’s thanks to his hunky muscles that glistened on the silver screen. This makes Frank’s great creation a manufacture of pop culture phenomenon’s Atlas and Reeves.
The New culture, thanks to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has offered us a release from the hectic real world. Even though brad was unraveled by the madness and “shamelessness” of Frank, Janet was somehow freed like a phoenix rising from the dark ashes of insecurity. Her once square, idealistic idea of what she should be and act like was infected by Frank’s dark and twisted fantasies which transformed her not into another Rocky but into a evolved image of himself; she would neither be a straight-minded and “traditional” but neither be taken over by insanity completely like