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When we came up with the idea of translating this blog site to English and creating the English section of the blog site, one of the ideas that first came to mind was that we didn´t want to it to be a merely translated section of the blog, but also a creative one.
For it to be that creative one of the things we had to think of was about the existence if the "bizarro" phenomena in the English speaking world. If there was such, the blog section could be creative. It there wasn´t, then nothing was to be done.
Fortunately enough, the first image which came to mind when thinking about the combination BIZARRO + ANGLO SAXON CULTURE was Australia. Australia in itself is a weird continent, a wild bizarre one. An extravagance, an exotism, and a beautiful one.
It has by the way one of Madrid´s twin sisters, Sidney, known to many as Sodom by the Sea, very different from Madrid but one which shares with this city its openness, its sexual liberty an its outdoors culture. Unfortunately, Madrid has no sea, so Sidney definitely beats Madrid. Thanks God it´s the opposite way down the globe. Sidney´s rivalry would have been a tough one, but thanks to to the geographical distance, it becomes fortunately a natural sympathy between somehow similarly inspired cities.
Another fascinating point was demographical distribution. Being a country where 80% of the population is suburban and lives in 6 cities by the sea (or almost) and where a ridiculous 5% lives in the vaste, strange, savage fascinating interior, known as the Outback ( a further article should be devoted to it) Australia could do anything but attract our atention for weirdness.
But if there is something which definitely sets Australia in th map that is the cultural jewel of Australian cinema. Films such as Mad Max, To Die For and especially Priscilla, Holy Smoke and Muriel´s Wedding definitely confirm us that Australia´s one is indeed a bizarro culture.
Our minds are sparkled by images of wonderful movies like these: drag queens showing off their costumes at the top of bus wagons around the Australian desert, delicious hot Kate Winslet pissing herself all over naked out of sexual excitement (one of the most wild calling sex scenes I ever watched), Harvey Keitel running out in the rocks with the make up on and the lips still fresh red from the lipstick. Leather gay cowboys as out of any Sidney late night party playing bored in the middle of the desert, a thai stripper throwing ping pong balls in the air with the most amazing muscle of her body.. ..
..all this images imediately touched our hearts and brains and made us fall in love with Australia.
If there is a country to that had to be created, Australia is definitely the one.
NOTA BENE: Mila, my lover required from me an extension of this article, an appendix about the Australian actors and actresses who may well deserve the tag of bizarre and make us owe the recognition to Australia as the most bizarro country in the world. Here it goes:
Terence Stamp. Gold Bizarro for being a villain in Superman 2, a killer in The Winter Lisbonne (a Spanish film) and ending as an adorable transexual in Priscilla.
Hugo Weaving. Diamond Bizarro for being first a drag queen in Priscilla, later an evil computer program in "The Matrix". Though his greatest work as a drag queen is obviously as the king elf in The Lord of The Rings (the gayest film ever shot)
Guy Pearce for being a policeman in LA Confidential, a mad scientific in The Time Machine, a drag queen in Priscilla and especially and mainly for that wonderful work in the unforgettable film called Memento.
Despite his macho-rightist unbearable thinking, we ought, yes, we ought, to give here a little space to that crazy ill-thinking maverick called Mel Gibson, at least for being the main character in Mad Max and for being as crazy to shoot films in Hebrew, Latin, Arameic and Maya languages. He may be a terrible right-winger now, but he is crazy enough to deserve the award.
Starting with ACTRESSES, a place of honour even further than the above men, should be given to Toni Collete, for performing the main character in Muriel´s wedding and the wonderful mother we all would dream of in The Sixth Sense. "Mummy, now I´m finally ready to communicate my thoughts to you" I love you, full heartedly.
And we love ABBA.
Nicole Kidman, for "To Die For", working in Spain with Alejandro Amenábar, but mainly for being able to stand that unbearable freak called Tom Crusise, the Michael Jackson of cinema, without the talent of the later.
Kate Blanchet. Life Aquatic deserves all possible awards for all of its members, but if it wasn´t enough for that, all credit would be given to the superstar who has been able to perform (twice) the most masculine queen (Elizabeth I) the freakiest singer/songwriter (Bob Dylan) and last but not least the heroine ot XXth Century Cinema (Katherine Hepburn)
3 comments:
By the way, the word 'weird' is the most bizarre in the English language. 90% of English speakers don't know how to spell it.
Ha, ha, that´s a good fact. But I really prefer "Weird" to "Strange" More musical to me, I think.
And more weird too :-)
By the way, how do you make the comparison?
weird
more weird
the most weird
CAn´t you say "the weirdest"?
oh, dear, my English lessons are far away...
I didn't say "the weirdest" because I was using the word 'bizarre' that it's two syllables long. When that's the case, it's better to use 'more ...' than adding a suffix.
You can say 'the weirdest' and weirder (but also 'more weird' I think both are correct).
De nada :)
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