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He comes up with the scheme and leads him and Victoria to great wealth and fortune. Up to this point, it could be argued that Toddy is the lead of the film. It's a lighthearted romp from 1982 but it acknowledges that gender is a construct and people can express masculinity and femininity in different ways that aren't always tied to biology. She can slick her hair back and act as effeminate as she is (albeit a couple octaves down) and be the sissiest gay man turned drag queen in Europe. There’s no one way to be a man and there’s no one way to be a woman.
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There’s no montage where Toddy teaches Victor how to become a man.
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Here’s where the movie really won me over. How will anyone believe she is a man? She doesn’t know how to act like a man. Victoria should pretend to be a gay man named Count Victor Grazinski who performs as a drag queen named Victoria. Toddy turns to the only logical conclusion. She has an incredible voice, but no hook for an act. Victoria looked enough like a man to fool Toddy’s f**k-buddy. Toddy: I am personally acquainted with at least a dozen men who act exactly like women and vice versa. Victoria : I mean, as opposed to the way women act. Toddy : Contrary to the popular conception of how a man acts, there are different men who act in different ways. It's absolutely wild Mary Poppins herself starred in a film where she played a singer who could conceivably pass as a twink-y drag queen.
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From then on, they're more than best friends, they’re co-schemers. The bond between woman and gay best friend is crystallized when Victoria dresses in Toddy’s one-night-stand’s clothes and punches said trick once he comes back in a threatening manner.
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This only deepens when Victoria spends the night and takes care of Toddy when he has a fever. When the two happen upon each other during an extravagant meal they hope to get for free, a friendship begins. Her talents as a soprano don’t necessarily match his bawdy rendition of “Gay Paree.” Unfortunately, Toddy’s own talents (and penchant for mocking patrons) gets him fired from the same gig Victoria was hoping to land. Toddy meets Victoria (Julie Andrews) as she fails an audition at the club that he works at. You can’t judge a book by its cover but Victor/Victoria let’s you know who it is (a gay ass movie!) from its opening moment. The movie leads with its homosexuality as it pushes each of its characters to reconsider how they identify and who they love. Though Victor/Victoria is first and foremost a Julie Andrews vehicle, it’s fitting we open on Toddy (Robert Preston) in bed with a hot, younger man. Robert Preston opens the movie in bed with a younger man. This was my first time watching Victor/Victoria and it made for a delightful and hilarious Saturday afternoon romp.
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However, it uses its queer characters to help the straights find their own unique shading on the sexuality spectrum. In only one film that we've discussed to date, My Best Friend’s Wedding, do they also get to be the ultimate hero of the story.īlake Edwards 1982 musical comedy Victor/Victoria, like most gender-flipping movies, relies a bit too much on the gender binary.
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Rarely are they actual plot drivers who get to carry their own subplot. More movies should end with a gay best friend performing drag, like Robert Preston in Victor/Victoria.Many of the gay best friends in movies we've discussed to date have been supporting characters to give color to the protagonists, act as a sounding board, or fill out the world of the story.
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In this series by Christopher James we investigate the 'Gay Best Friend' trope in movies.