“Whatever
I am, he made me! I was adorable once, young and full of hope. And now look at
me! I'm this short, fat, insecure, middle-aged THING!”
I am such a man eater the last time I had a boyfriend
was, shit, eight years ago! Yeah folks that’s a long time! I am awkward as hell
and I run this movie blog for fucks sake I do not have a very social life. I met
the guy when I was working at Best Buy and he would come in all the time and we
would talk about music. I was nervous about telling my parents I was seeing
someone. I was not nervous because I thought my parents would not approve. They
were the ones always pushing me to look for a guy! I was more nervous about my
dad being a pain in the ass. Here is the thing about my dad, he thinks he is
hilarious as hell and likes to bust chops. He is totally not funny he does not
know when to stop himself or know when he is going too far. Of course the day I
bring the guy home my dad automatically starts cracking jokes and trying to be
funny. But the beautiful thing about my house is that I have a basement so me
and the guy went downstairs.
The 1996 movie The
Birdcage takes meeting the parents to whole other completely hysterical
level. The kid does not have to worry about his parents embarrassing him with
bad jokes and stories he has to worry about his fiancé’s conservative parents
not approving of his gay father and his father’s drag performing partner. Talk about
an uncomfortable situation.
Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) runs the popular drag
show nightclub The Birdcage. The star of the show is his fabulously feminine
flamboyant partner Albert (Nathan Lane). Albert is in panic mode because he
thinks Armand is seeing someone else that night. Armand manages to calm his
husband down and get him on stage for the show just in time. Armand is having
another man over but it is not a lover. The man is his son Val who is coming
home from school. Val informs his father that he has become engaged to a girl
and her father is a senator who runs on a morality campaign. The girl and her
family are coming down to meet a normal conservative family.
Normal is not in the cards for Armand and Albert. Armand
knows how to put on the masculine act but Albert is full blown feminine without
the sex change. He is outrageously emotional and becomes even more so when
their apartment has to be redecorated to be less gay looking.
The girl and her family are not having an easy time
either. The senator’s partner in their morality league or club or whatever was
found dead in a hotel next to a hooker. All the news media outlets are crowded
around the senator’s house waiting for his comment. The family winds up getting
away from the crowd but a few of the news crews are tipped off and follow the
senator down to Miami. They find out the senator is in an apartment attached to
a drag show club.
The movie is really funny. I do not want to give too much
away.
The Birdcage is
a movie I have wanted to see for a long time. My grandma loves this movie and
so does my friend. My friend and I hung out tonight and told me to put the
movie on as we were searching for something to watch on Netflix. I was cracking
up with it right from the beginning. Robin Williams was fantastic, Nathan Lane
was a panic he was so quick with his lines and his movements, and Hank Azaria
nearly stole the movie from Williams and Lane as their gay house maid. The
whole situation when the senator finally arrives at the apartment was so
uncomfortable and nerve wracking but in such a great comedic way. It was not
filled with dirty or crude jokes it was funny because Armand was trying to look
and act straight and then Albert comes in dressed as a woman pretending to me
Val’s mother! Oh my god that was so funny. The
Birdcage was hilarious and almost twenty years later the idea of
conservatives thinking gays immoral or wrong is still relevant. And parents embarrassing
their kids when they bring over a girlfriend or boyfriend is always relevant
and never ending.
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