Anti cliche?
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transI just wanted some opinions on this...
Since watching the 10th anniversary special edition of Clerks the part of my brain that always wanted to make a movie has been flaring up again, albeit this time with more of a "They did it, why can't you?" edge.
And even though I have no experience in film making, no money as such to budget it with, no camera, no lighting, no actors, no script, no real concept for a film at all, I did have an idea for a scene.
The 'making of' film from Clerks X had the fantastic peice of advice about making movies based on what you know. Hence Clerks was based on Kevin Smiths own experiences working in a convenience store with his friends, and some of the conversations were directly lifted from real conversations in his past.
So I started thinking about making a film based around a bunch of female students from totally different courses whom happen to be friends due to fairly random factors, and it occurred to me that one scene might be quite interesting.
To base the film upon my own experiences it would require one of the characters to be trans, that's a given. But every film on Earth which has a main trans character usually has a focal scene near the start of the character dressing up. Even in Transamerica we open on scenes of makeup andnail polish being applied, just like the scenes in all the sex-change documentaries where we see girls preening themselves to maximum passability (or in the case of Boys don't cry, the scenes of Brandon looking tough in the mirror and binding), it's one of the oldest cliches of transgender filmmaking.
It thought it might be interesting if instead we enter into the 4 characters who are merely introduced exactly as they are presented and at some point during, have a de-transition scene, where the TS character is forced to undo all the good work to meet family or go to work in boymode. As far as I know there has been no film released which captures that look of disappointment I see in the mirror when I have had a whole weekend en femme and then have to go back to the old facade, dripping with water as the inks and oils drain away revealing more clearly the razor marks and darkening around follicles on the face.
I think such a scene would be a great scene, and a nice reworking of a cliche which has over time become rather tacky and cringe worthy to those of us who have seen it often enough.
What does everyone else think?
Since watching the 10th anniversary special edition of Clerks the part of my brain that always wanted to make a movie has been flaring up again, albeit this time with more of a "They did it, why can't you?" edge.
And even though I have no experience in film making, no money as such to budget it with, no camera, no lighting, no actors, no script, no real concept for a film at all, I did have an idea for a scene.
The 'making of' film from Clerks X had the fantastic peice of advice about making movies based on what you know. Hence Clerks was based on Kevin Smiths own experiences working in a convenience store with his friends, and some of the conversations were directly lifted from real conversations in his past.
So I started thinking about making a film based around a bunch of female students from totally different courses whom happen to be friends due to fairly random factors, and it occurred to me that one scene might be quite interesting.
To base the film upon my own experiences it would require one of the characters to be trans, that's a given. But every film on Earth which has a main trans character usually has a focal scene near the start of the character dressing up. Even in Transamerica we open on scenes of makeup andnail polish being applied, just like the scenes in all the sex-change documentaries where we see girls preening themselves to maximum passability (or in the case of Boys don't cry, the scenes of Brandon looking tough in the mirror and binding), it's one of the oldest cliches of transgender filmmaking.
It thought it might be interesting if instead we enter into the 4 characters who are merely introduced exactly as they are presented and at some point during, have a de-transition scene, where the TS character is forced to undo all the good work to meet family or go to work in boymode. As far as I know there has been no film released which captures that look of disappointment I see in the mirror when I have had a whole weekend en femme and then have to go back to the old facade, dripping with water as the inks and oils drain away revealing more clearly the razor marks and darkening around follicles on the face.
I think such a scene would be a great scene, and a nice reworking of a cliche which has over time become rather tacky and cringe worthy to those of us who have seen it often enough.
What does everyone else think?