6. Name a movie in which one of the main characters was a transvestite/transsexual/transgendered. The movie must have grossed at least ten million dollars (inflation adjusted) worldwide.

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Unique answers (1 pt)
PyramidScheme - Woman On Top
wager32 - Silence of the Lambs
aardvarksrus - Kinky Boots
amplify - kiss of the spider woman

Wrong answers (9 pts)
sixfour - tootsie
zhaorx - the hot chick
DukeSucks - just one of the guys
roundtower - Tootsie
legend42 - ...And Justice For All
dudd - Mrs. Doubtfire
CPFB - Brokeback Mountain
chuckleslovakian - Breakfast on Pluto
Siegmund - Tootsie
zimmer4141 - Mrs. Doubtfire
Tokyo!! - hedwig and the angry inch
alice16 - The Golden Compass
bairdo1884 - White Chicks
rake16 - Boondock Saints
cardsman - Tootsie
dawade - No clue
vixticator - hedwig and the angry inch
polka face - Tootsie
TehVader - Boondock Saints

Argue amognst yourselves about what a transvestite is while I finish up with work.

what is wrong with The Hot Chick?

wow at silence only getting 1


hot chick was voodoo ****...he didn't want to be female or vice-versa

10 mil requirement=rigged

I couldn't remember what exactly Dustin Hoffman's motivation is in Tootsie but I remember by the end he had some kind of "identification with the opposite sex" which was what was in the question thread, so I thought it might be allowed.

Here's my clarification from the original thread:

agree with nich

Well, my character was unquestionably a transvestite, arguable to how "main" he was, but his character was pretty crucial to the story- and probably had as much screen time as the Silence of the Lambs character.

But I had a feeling this was coming, after the pre-debate. Just hate to drop in the standings like that, when I could have put like 10 other answers had I known- including at least a couple uniques (has anybody heard of Almodovar here?) had I realized mine would be no good.

Only because movies are my main thing does it suck to lose one like that. But it's cool.

Finkel, Einhorn, Einhorn, Finkel !

oh didn't see your clarirfications.

still don't like the ruling on silence of the lamps

wait a minute, silence of the lambs?

From IMDB

Jame (birth certificate misprint of James) Gumb (Ted Levine) is a fictional serial killer from the movie Silence of the Lambs. He likes to kidnap fat women and keep them in a pit for three days up to a week before shooting or hanging them, then flaying them and sewing their skin together to make a suit. He is known to the FBI as "Buffalo Bill" because "Buffalo Bill liked to skin his humps." He believes that he is transexual and tried to get a sex change but could not because he was proven not to be transexual.

Also, I should read all pages of these threads before I submit my answers.....I would have gone away from Tootsie then..

I suck at this game...

in The Hot Chick. a girl was put into a man's body. that should count IMO.

card,

i think that makes him a transgender

I just don't think he's a main character. no one gives a fk about him, but that's just me, and probably just because dr was so awesome.

80s art house cinema ftw

Well, Hurt did win an Oscar for it...

but good answer.

ah so

is that another sankyuu joke?

And IMO, regardless of my answer, Tootsie should count as good. Even though Hoffman's sexuality remains basically intact, there is enough cross-gender activity and interaction for it to qualify IMO. Just as I would definitely count Some Like it Hot (which I was surprised wasn't mentioned, though I guess I'm old or cinematically injected) and probably White Chicks as well, though I haven't seen it.

This isn't the same thing as Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell dressing in drag for one scene in Tango & Cash, which is what I thought we were disqualifying...

mu

drag != tv

Lol.

'stardust' was my big one pointer, with robert dinero's great trannie scenes...i was psyched to remember it. and less psyched later when i realized i got the title wrong and wrote 'golden compass' instead. duh

I think it's being overly nitty to restrict the usage of transvestite, and extremely lame not to send out PMs to people who would be affected.

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