I'm clicking through the Times and came across this great film title. I'll have to rent it when it comes to DVD. It looks to be the ultimate bad B movie.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/mo...NDERC_BRF.html
I'm really not focusing in on whatever controversy has sprung up, but rather the hilarious title. I'm not looking to get involved with whatever politics are involved here.
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March 27, 2010
Arts, Briefly
Transgender Comedy Not Amusing to Some
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A film selected for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, “Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives,” is having a similar angry effect on some transgender people and their supporters, prompting the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to call for the film’s removal from the lineup. In a listing for “Ticked-Off Trannies,” a comedy by Israel Luna, the film is described as a “campy homage to the exploitation films” in which “a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left for dead,” but then “the violated vixens turn deadly divas.” That summary alone was enough to prompt many angry comments at the festival’s Web site, tribecafilm.com. In a statement, GLAAD said, “The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women.” It urged its members to contact the festival and demand that the film be pulled. The festival responded in a statement: “The filmmakers provided a copy of this film to GLAAD in February, and for weeks the organization had been supportive to the filmmakers. In fact, GLAAD representatives advised the film’s producer, director and cast on how to describe the film to its core constituency.” The festival added that it “looks forward to the film’s premiere” next month.
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