Priscilla, insane of the desert

Priscilla, insane of the desert ( The adventures off Priscilla, Queen off the Serves ) is an Australian film of Stephan Elliott carried out in 1994.

The film reports the history of two Drag queen S and of a transsexual crossing Australia, of Sydney to Alice Springs, in a large bus which they baptized " Priscilla". Play in the film Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp. The film was written and directed by Stephan Elliott.

subtitle: Finally a comedy which will change your manner of thinking, how you feel, and most important… How you get dressed! "

Synopsis

Mitzi Del Bra, a Drag queen, is tired to play in the pubs and cabarets of Sydney, and agrees the offer to play in a casino with Alice Springs, in the middle of Australia. He convinces his two friends and colleagues to come with him: Bernadette Bassenger - a transsexual from which the boyfriend comes to die - and Felicia Jollygoodfellow - a young person and homosexual irritant and drag queen. They leave thus in this bus, bought with Swedes, whom they rename " Priscilla, Insane of the désert".

Meeting in the course of road the Australian rural attitude (much less tolerant towards homosexuality than the megalopolis), of sexual violences, and succeeding in surmounting the many breakdowns of their bus, the troop ends up reaching Alice Springs, ready to play the show which she repeated during the voyage. But before arriving at Alice, Mitzi reveals that it is in fact married, and that the voyage which it undertook was especially intended to return a maltreatment to his wife, lesbian, who has the casino and which required of him to deal with, for at least end of time, their child, a boy of ten years.

Guy Pearce which plays Felicia, while Hugo Weaving plays the part of Mitzi, and Terence Stamp that of the transsexual, Bernadette.

Cultural impact

The film became a Film worship, in particular in the gay community. The band comprises many tubes of the Seventies - 80, in particular of many references to the group Disco Swedish Abba. This film explores and exaggerates also many homosexual stereotypes. One of the forces of film is also that it does not present the homosexual ones like unhealthy sinners or beings, nor like martyrs stripped of any defects (as in the film Philadelphia ) but rather like people like the others.

The film shows also the Australian Outback in an idyllic way, by showing the beauty of the landscapes, and comprises a scene with the strong capacity symbolic system: the troop dances and plays at one time with a tribe indigenous, describing the one moment time the meeting between two types of people rather excluded by the company, who meet, in the situation from most unexpected and improbable.

But Priscilla holds also its success of a single casting, in particular with Terence Stamp, accustomed to more male and virile roles, and the presence of two future high-speed motorboats, Pearce and especially Hugo Weaving which played in particular in Matrix and the Lord of the Rings .

During the opening ceremony of OJ of Sydney of the year 2000, in the procession was a giant shoe with heel-switches, one of the symbols of film, as a reference to this film and homage to the gay community of Sidney.

Rewards

Cannes festival 1994
  • Price of the public

Golden Globes 1995 Nominations

  • Better Film - category Comedy
  • Better Performance of actor of Comedy: Terence Stamp

GLAAD Media Awards 1995

  • Outstanding Film

BAFTA Awards 1995

  • Better Costumes
  • Better make-up - coiffuresBest
Other Better Nominations
  • First Masculine role: Terence Stamp
  • Better catalog of films
  • Better Better Original screenplay
  • Production Design

Academy Awards 1995

  • Better Costumes

Data sheet

  • original Title: The adventures off Priscilla, Queen off the Serves
  • Réalisation and scenario: Stephan Elliott .
  • Images: Brian J. Breheny
  • Music: Guy Large
  • Production: Al Clark and Michael Hamlyn - United Artists
  • Colors
  • Year: 1994
  • Lasted: 103 minutes

Distribution

  • Terence Stamp: Bernadette
  • Hugo Weaving: Tick/Mitzi
  • Guy Pearce: Adam/Felicia
  • Bill Hunter: Bob
  • Sarah Chadwick: Marion
  • Mark Holmes: Benji
  • Julia Cortez : Cynthia
  • Ken Radley : Frank
  • Went Dargin: the aboriginal
  • Rebel Russell: the woman with the logo
  • June Marie Bennett: Shirley
  • Al Clark: the priest

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