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• The man I made in seven days — for The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  Written by silviabrigida on 03.07.2010

  Rocky Horror is a hit. That touch-a kind of musical that only makes you want to jump of your seat and start shaking your things. To hell with your problems, who wants to have a good time?
  Well, if you want, you may need to read this. It happened once upon a time in a distant galaxy called Transylvania, which from its peculiar planet Transsexual came the master lead of this tale. A transvestite scientist who got here through unusual technologies and decided to create him a man. Not any man but a pink-shiny, well-tanned and blond muscle man, which his job would be to relieve the master’s tension with full desire. Frank-N-Furter is the name of the scientist, his goal was to build this creature in only seven days and then name it Rocky.
  Now before this creation thing, let me tell you the beginning from another point of view. It has two personalities – Brad Majors and Janet Weiss incorporated by, respectively, Barry Bostwick and that wonderful Susan Sarandon. Brad and Janet are the funniest couple ever; it’s that “you’re so straight, that you’re gay” kind of thing. They manage, in a brilliant way, to make fun of their heterosexuality that it’s almost impossible not to laugh. They met each other thanks to a wedding of friends they had in common. Through this wedding they fell in love with each other and decided to get marry too.
  An interesting fact about this movie is that things happen fast and we don’t get lost in it. That’s because of the fancy narrator (that’s also a criminologist) played by Charles Gray, who not only talks but appears in the movie. After he gives us a little peep, we can see Brad and Janet driving to visit Dr. Everett Scott, which was their high school teacher.
  An ordinary couple of lovebirds having the time of their lives until…
  Wait! What’s the hurry about?
  Brad and Janet were having unusual talks when a lot of rain came down. In a power like the sky was falling or something. Just then they got a flat tire. What else could it possibly happen? And that’s a great scene, the sequence which they pass through mysterious people with motorcycles just before of the flat tire situation. They decide then to get out of the car and look for where those people were going to, so they can get some help, let’s say using the telephone or something. It’s very funny there, facing all the rain, Janet protecting her hair by holding a piece of paper that doesn’t seem to be wet above her head. Anyway, the next minutes they find each other looking at a exotic, enormous and peculiar castle, a sensation mysteriously different from everything they have ever felt.
  Until now we have been amused with two songs. The first was in the opening credits, in which a mouth appeared singing “Science Fiction/Double Feature”. These lyrics received such a smart touch with a lot of interesting pop culture references, if I can put it this way. The second was when Brad showed his love for Janet through the song “Damn it, Janet”.
  Now, back to the rainy part, Brad and Janet walks to the front door of the castle in an effort to get some help. What does it seem that they’re going to find? Of course, it’s exactly what you thought. This peculiar castle was nothing more than that scientist’s home sweet home. Brad and Janet are welcomed with all kinds of fellows wearing funny clothes. Not if it was enough, their master – the scientist Dr. F. – makes his first apparition wearing stilettos, corset, the whole outfit and singing “Sweet Transvestite”.
  Do you want to know what this party’s all about? I’ll tell you.
  They were celebrating the glorious conquest of their master. That creature or should I say blond and very healthy human being was almost joining their lives. The la-dee-dah I’ve been telling you from the very beginning, it’d take seven days for him to be made into a man.
  Doesn’t this story drive you wild with desire?
  Don’t you need to know how it ends?
  I must take my hat off, agree and get down on my knees (maybe do a little dancing too) for there’s NOTHING like Rocky Horror Picture Show – a British musical/horror/comedy film that parodies science fiction and B-movies in a gore universe of complex characters. Fitting so well in this raving red-blooded-sensation, Frank-N-Furter is played by that talented Tim Curry and never a transvestite was so original in its nature. The set decoration is pure art. Even the pool (HELL, I want that pool!) has the famous Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” painted on its bottom. So nice to remember that.
  It’s very interesting if you relate this whole “touch of life” concept with the fact that Frank-N-Furter’s able to create life his own way and in seven days. Would it be religion criticism?
  If you want, Rocky can be the secret to life itself. From the single need of using a telephone to rolling down a pool with desire and untamed things. Among great songs written by Richard O’Brien and directed by Jim Sharman, it has the hilarious pursuit of a straight couple trying to get out of a transvestite scientist’s claws. Although they can, I don’t really think they ever resisted the desire.