Symposium Shizzle

words spoken in the film:
Frank: 'Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it? Don't dream it, be it.' Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975 Film)

key words
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/keywords

Themes we could discuss:

Surrealism - reflects dream like imagery

Gay Interest

Homicide

sexual discovery - link to Freud

incestuous overtones

scene based on painting

Mad scientist

Artifically created man - link to Frankenstein - romanticism movement
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, and the famous character of Frankenstein's monster have influenced popular culture for at least 100 years. The work has inspired numerous films, television programs, video games and derivative works. The character of the monster remains one of the most recognized icons in horror fiction.

Transvestite - gothic look - link to romanticism - publish source could be the 'Gothic Nightmares book' - link to film is that the characters could of felt they were in a nightmare of this genre.


After first slide say ... "Armed with our publish sources it's time to go back in time to anaylsis the creation of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

Just another thing i read - thought could help us conclude the presentation...
For years, with its phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has made dont dream it, be it the motto for its ever-growing cult audience. The film continues to be regarded by critics and audiences as the only no-holds-barred, ultimate theatre experience, which has seemingly drawn a repeat audience of cult film followers year after year. More than just a movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) has become a community, a loud, profane, exuberant collection of cult film freaks freaks: the beautiful, the creative, the lovers and the lost. Despite its first success as a play and then initial failure when produced as a mainstream film, RHPS has become a successful paradigmatic cult classic due to its strange and unusual theatrical exhibition and the films blend of thematic, visual and verbal elements, which parody accepted societal conventions.

Comtemporary example

why certain films (The Rocky Horror Picture Show [1975, Jim Sharman], El Topo [1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky]) were able to achieve cult status as midnight movies and what drives audiences to perform elaborate rituals at film screenings. (play dress up!)contemporary cult film, the notoriously awful The Room (2003, Tommy Wiseau
Beetle juice (1988)