oh, I always thought that scene in BigMamaGoesToYukon was a sort of inside racist joke, based on Jean Cocteau’s 1940s Orpheus. Both films seem to focus on a poet-of-his-age, tasked with seeking and yet retreating from his two loves (Eurydice and the Mysterious Princess, in Cocteau’s classic. A rubber transvestite fat suit and THE LAW, in BigMamaGoesToYukon).
oh, I always thought that scene in BigMamaGoesToYukon was a sort of inside racist joke, based on Jean Cocteau’s 1940s Orpheus. Both films seem to focus on a poet-of-his-age, tasked with seeking and yet retreating from his two loves (Eurydice and the Mysterious Princess, in Cocteau’s classic. A rubber transvestite fat suit and THE LAW, in BigMamaGoesToYukon).
yess. so many layers. so many subtexts.
brilliant.