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A wild journey into the origins of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the biggest cult film of all time, its impact on popul | dG1fd2FWYnlPLXI0RG8
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00:00It used to stand where I used to cut hair.
00:04Can you imagine when I was cutting people's hair
00:06if I said to them,
00:07one day, all this will be torn down
00:11and there'll be a statue of me
00:14wearing fishnets.
00:18I was contemplating whether I should get a proper job
00:21or stay as an actor.
00:23I said to Jim Sharman,
00:24I'm writing a little musical which might amuse you.
00:27Called They Came From Denton High
00:29I basically suggested to Richard on the simple principle
00:33that it's a rock and roll horror show
00:34why don't we just call it what it is.
00:38We opened and it was a phenomenal success.
00:42Everyone just went nuts.
00:44From the beginning, I just envisioned it as a film.
00:48Not having money added to the edginess.
00:50It was very hard work.
00:52We completed the film.
00:53And it flopped.
00:54It was like somebody had let all the air out of a balloon.
00:58They suggested,
00:59why don't we run the film at midnight?
01:02We are Rocky!
01:04We are Rocky!
01:06Bam.
01:06Let's do the time for the man!
01:11Everybody was amazed at that kind of success.
01:15It's the snowball effect,
01:16which goes from shout-outs...
01:19Fine, umbrella, you chief bitch.
01:21...to costumes, to props.
01:23Toilet paper?
01:24Rice.
01:24It was like a rock concert.
01:27Touchy, touchy, touchy, touchy, touchy, touch me.
01:30I want to be dirty.
01:36I mean, you would hope at this point in world history
01:41that something like Rocky would be a relic.
01:44You have to turn to your child and explain.
01:46People used to be really afraid of
01:48someone professing that they are somewhere between two genders.
01:51That point when you're trying to figure things out,
01:55you could go to some place
01:57where there are a lot of people that are trying to figure that out.
02:00You can be there and you can be accepted for who you are.
02:03The truth of the matter is, of course, we all are freaks, aren't we?
02:06God made us in different ways.
02:09Thankfully.
02:09I think nothing is going to mean.
02:11I like that none of it.
02:12We all have my friends.
02:14I like that stuff.
02:15I don't know what we could either.
02:17You have to know.
02:18I love you.
02:18ую end or what I don't know.
02:20See you next world.
02:21Bye dad.
02:22Bye.
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