Folks, this is broad, ridiculous comedy that we're not supposed to take seriously-at all. Paglia adds a faux-serious über-intellectual touch as the most perfect choice for "intellectual" commentary on unusual/abnormal sexuality in film to the most lowbrow of lowbrow flicks. Two of my favorite motifs were Pat's instrument that she played on-stage with Ween: A FREAKING TUBA!!! How freaking perfect is that? And having Camille Paglia as on-air commentary is meta hilarious. There were times when her pure selfishness and disdain for other's comfort and happiness made me LOL to the point where I was crying-Julia Sweeney really went "balls-out" (sorry) with her over-the-top comedy chops. I think that the loutish Pat is far the funnier-she takes herself so seriously, and even if she wasn't a mysterious he/she, her outlandish and unearned self-confidence would be great comedy in and of itself. Another message on the IMDb message board noted that Pat's personality on SNL was much sweeter, whereas she's really quite a self-absorbed, obnoxious oaf in "It's Pat". This movie is in no way meant to be sophisticated, and the fact that it appears cheaply made simply adds to the fun. Julia Sweeney's show "Older and Wider" will be at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on February 1, 2020.That "It's Pat" gets such low ratings is a classic example of humour-challenged viewers misunderstanding classic broad farce and absurdity. This interview was edited for length and clarity. But 95 percent is fantastic: I get to see the world as a movie, and I just get to watch it. Once you're over the hump, you're like Casper the Friendly Ghost, and you walk around, no one pays attention to you. Same for men, dyeing their hair and trying so hard to accentuate their masculinity way beyond the years they should be doing it. I live in Hollywood, and you see these beautiful blondes with the tiny waist, and they turn around, and they're 80 years old. I think this especially after the high fertility years. It reflects a patriarchy and the stratification of our society and all kinds of stuff about our society that I don't like. And I struggle with that, even with (people in) the trans community who are doing that. I don't like women who wear a ton of makeup and put their breasts on display. ![]() So it's hard for me to know whether I'm saying I apologize for it.įirst of all, ohmygod I'm so for androgynous people. You don't often have a character hit the public consciousness and become part of pop culture. We were gonna make fun of Pat being weird. And I when I wrote the Pat jokes, I was concentrating on laughing at the people who were uncomfortable around Pat.Ĭhristine Zander, who wrote all the sketches with me at Saturday Night Live - we made a pact at the very beginning that we weren't making fun of androgynous people. But I also thought it was a funny character, and I had a lot of fun doing it. I think I was unenlightened in a lot of ways. On the other hand, OF COURSE I'm upset that I created a character that made some people feel more victimized than they might otherwise have felt. For me to just offer an apology because it makes a situation like this feel better - I resist that. Is it that I should have known then not to do a character like that? I need to understand what the apology really is. But I also acknowledge that there was a byproduct of what I did that made a certain group of people maybe feel bad. I don't want to automatically offer an apology without really feeling like I did something wrong. If people felt bad about Pat - like Abby McEnany, who I'm working with now on Work in Progress - I am sorry about that. If Pat knew that people thought Pat was androgynous looking, Pat would be offended by that and immediately say what Pat was. ![]() In my mind, Pat was androgynous absentmindedly. I knew about people who looked androgynous, but they were affecting the look.
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