MM38 - 90’s Trans Representation feat. Louise Weard
Added 2025-05-28 11:00:12 +0000 UTCToday Will and Hesse are joined by filmmaker Louise Weard to discuss two controversial 90’s films that bend both genre and gender: Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game and David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly. We dive into the sexual politics, regular politics, and, of course, the famous twist. Join us as we answer the question once and for all: Are these movies transphobic??
Comments
I’ve never seen The Crying Game and I had it mixed up with Boys Don’t Cry and I was extremely confused when they started talking about Forrest Whitaker & the IRA
Max Fennig
2025-10-26 19:49:52 +0000 UTCI had never seen crying game before/didn’t know any of the cultural baggage around it I’m pretty much completely in line with hesse. I understand the guests opinion on it but going in and judging the movie just for what it is without the other buzz around it I didn’t see “the reveal” as anything special or a gag or something, I just sympathized with dil.
Elliot Hashington
2025-07-11 19:58:18 +0000 UTCWhat if Dill had a duck penis? Now that be a twist
Jimmy McMillan
2025-06-22 23:49:51 +0000 UTCLouise was a great guest. Nice to hear some gentle disagreement and debate. Don’t get me wrong, I love Movie Mindset but sometimes it can be a lot of agreeing with each other and praising each movie, I like hearing some argument about movies sometimes.
Evan G
2025-06-09 00:15:34 +0000 UTC..cva
Christian Torgersen
2025-06-08 12:06:52 +0000 UTCMy dumbass was confusing Ray Stevenson and Stephen Rae for a sec, muhaha
Nate Christy
2025-06-02 04:25:25 +0000 UTCRegarding the image of Jody that Stephen Rea has in his head: Jody is playing cricket and bowling in that sequence, but particularly Jody is *spin* bowling, a style of bowling where the ball changes direction after it bounces (I guess kind of like a curve ball in Baseball) You can imagine the significance of this in a movie like the Crying Game
Adam Foster
2025-06-01 07:36:43 +0000 UTCDoes Will have an English degree
LEAH NELSON
2025-06-01 00:14:50 +0000 UTCI didn’t think the bedroom scene in M Butterfly was racist at all: the point was that when Rene’s wife pantomimed the opera, he acts repulsed. Seeing his fantasy reflected back at him in this way makes it uncomfortably clear that it isn’t real. China for him is a kind of Zone where your projections can become real.
Jason Matthews
2025-05-29 23:21:53 +0000 UTCThe Jeremy Irons "Could a father not marry his son?" interview is SO funny, because on paper it's all bog-standard homophobic talking points, but with Jeremy Irons saying them it sounds like he's discovering a new dimension of carnal depravity in real time. It sounds like Jeremy Irons is alone on the moon, being ravished by visions of dog incest
Michael S. Judge
2025-05-29 17:46:18 +0000 UTCthis Bernard Boursicot guy is a weeb on a level that might never even be approached
etienne
2025-05-29 16:15:48 +0000 UTC
