Did you know, movies are really hard to get made, to find the money, to find a company to make it & then to actually make it, finish it & get it released - It's Tough!!
So when, in the opening scene of your 'masterpiece', you let the actor down & irritate the audience, so much so that they don't want to continue watching, do you think you should have thought about it a little more?!?!
I prefer 'live' singing, but one of the tricks in a drag artists bag, is to 'lipsync' to a song or even a film scene & get every word mouthed perfectly. Have you seen Rupaul's Drag Race, fail in the closing lipsync battle & you're booted off the show.
Our lead here then, an 80 year old, veteran artiste, not suffering from any memory loss that I can perceive, performs a drag classic, Gloria Gaynor's, I Will Survive. The poor actor, Darren Nesbitt, a veteran performer of 60 years, did not know the words. OK, fine, shoot him from the front, with screens or cue cards in front for him to read, NOT from behind & the side so you can see he doesn't know the words & he's not able to read them!!! This shows so little care not only towards the actor, but the audience as well, does the director, Jamie Patterson, think we're stupid & that we won't notice? If he cares that little about the viewer right from the start, I lose all confidence in the rest of the film, there's so much else to watch today, you can't let your audience down for even a second.
Skipping ahead a little & for what it's worth, Nesbitt, of course does a great job, but 'Faith', his protégé or drag daughter, is as flat as a pancake, so thank movie, but I'll pass.
If I was lucky enough to ever 'make' a movie, I would make sure that I didn't fail in under 60 seconds, what a shame!
