Movies Did people really not see the twist coming in The Crying Game?

[FléauDeDieu]

I mean the scene between Fergus and Dil halfway through the movie.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

From what i remember, I didn't see it coming.

 

[HereticBD]

Couldn't say. I watched it long after the spoilers. It's a pretty weird genre bending movie, though.

 

[cincymma79]

That lady had some ball on her

 

[Pittie Petey]

What was the twist?

 

[cincymma79]

What was the twist?

 

[milliniar]

What was the twist?

She was from Mars and came through a star gate

 

[Pittie Petey]

She was from Mars and came through a star gate

I heard the first draft involved Uranus

 

[ricc505]

The twist was exposed everywhere. I think I was on the school bus for grade school and heard it spoiled on the radio. Didn't watch the movie until recently.

 

[cincymma79]

The twist was exposed everywhere. I think I was on the school bus for grade school and heard it spoiled on the radio. Didn't watch the movie until recently.

She didn’t have to be such a dick about it

 

[mozfonky]

most everyone heard about it before they saw it so no surprise. My best friend's brother was raving about how fine "she" was until the dick popped out and my buddy laughed his ass off at his brother.

It was a different era too, that kind of thing was still somewhat taboo 30 years ago.

If I hadn't heard about the movie beforehand would I have known? I don't know, I do know that whenever I see a woman with long assed arms and big hands or wide shoulders I usually think "tranny". Some things you can't fake and one is that women have proportionally shorter arms than men do. The scene where the tranny is singing and moving her arms looks off. Can be the prettiest tranny in the world and there are still vestiges of maleness.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

It was a different era too, that kind of thing was still somewhat taboo 30 years ago.

And should still be.

 

[mozfonky]

And should still be.

ok, but I was making a point that people really weren't ready or expectant to see that then. Sure, we always had musicians to play with the gender roles but I don't think it was really much of a thing in society in general at the time, just a subculture. Now, well, ya, I think it's ridiculous. You can dress up at home, you don't have to do it at work and everywhere else too.

 

[Osculater]

From what I remember, I never saw the movie

 

[Kiniun]

I didn't know anything about trannies or the cross dressing aethetic at the time. I also thought Victor Victoria was about a weird tomboy.

when the "reveal" came i was just confused

 

[mozfonky]

I didn't know anything about trannies or the cross dressing aethetic at the time. I also thought Victor Victoria was about a weird tomboy.

when the "reveal" came i was just confused

I think that was the intended reaction along with perhaps humor and shock.

 

[Kiniun]

I think that was the intended reaction along with perhaps humor and shock.

I thought was kinda funny...in an innocent kind of way... but I was confused as to why he'd pretend to be a chick and not tell the dude he liked. I thought the tranny in the movie was just a homosexual.

Today...the movie would either be in the educational curriculum for kindergarten students or looked at as an important milestone for the ongoing "woman's" sufferage movement.

 

[mozfonky]

I thought was kinda funny...in an innocent kind of way... but I was confused as to why he'd pretend to be a chick and not tell the dude he liked. I thought the tranny in the movie was just a homosexual.

Today...the movie would either be in the educational curriculum for kindergarten students or looked at as an important milestone for the ongoing "woman's" sufferage movement.

I've heard lots of stories about trannies tricking men and getting beat up or killed when they find out. I don't know why they wouldn't tell someone, maybe they are just to into their delusion.

ya, these days it's absolutely sick, the backlash is working against some of that.

Do I care personally? naw, I just tell my friend who has kids that have to deal with this shit, "school is not supposed to be dealing with all of that". I try to tell him (he's an immigrant) just how bad an influence the school and the kids are but they ain't my kids.

 

[Kiniun]

This thread inspired me to listen to main song for the movies soundtrack.

Its actually beautiful in a wistful mournful kinda way.

The song has actually fostered a renewed resonance within me now that I know what travails a Lad in Dress must suffer in a world that sees his identity as either a schtick, an ideology, a crude caricature, or really really shitty cosplay (ofc it all depends on how good the Molly is)

...and (imo) it IS all these things... but dispite the apparent (imo) dysfunction of the whole premise, a good song can grow a bit of empathy in place of disdain and indifference.

 

[William Huggins]

Apparently the story is all about prolapsed rectums, that's why it's called the crying game.......