Victor Victoria

Victor Victoria

  • Director: Blake Edwards
  • Writer: Blake Edwards,Hans Hoemburg,Reinhold Schünzel
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: March 19, 1982
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Victor/Victoria
  • "Victor" is a musical romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards , starring Julie Andrews Edwards , James Garner , and Robert Preston . It was released in the United States on March 16, 1982.
    The film is adapted from the German film "Victor and Victoria" directed by Lei Schenzel in 1933. It tells the story of a female singer Victoria pretending to be a male singer dressed in women's clothes and performing in a nightclub, which caused a series of misunderstandings and adventures   .

    Details

    • Release date March 19, 1982
    • Filming locations Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Buckhantz-NMC Company, Peerford Ltd.

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $28,215,453

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $139,634

    Gross worldwide

    $28,229,046

    Movie reviews

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    • By Salma 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      [Film Review] Victor Victoria (1982) 7.5/10

      Hollywood mainstream cinema's dichotomic gender conventions are rambunctiously breached in 1982, Sydney Pollack's TOOTSIE has a bruised male ego get a fresh start by purporting to be the opposite sex, and Blake Edwards' VICTOR VICTORIA is the obverse, a woman in drag, pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman.

      Such follies are conveniently timed in the interwar years of Paris, a gay...

    • By Mona 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      In the face of true love, gender counts as a ball

      Compared with "My Fair Lady", this film, also a drag comedy of the 1980s, is much less famous. In fact, the two films are very good-looking, comedy is very strong, indistinguishable.

      The two films have something in common: both take place in the entertainment industry, the protagonists are desperate, and they both reach the pinnacle of life through cross-dressing. In the end, they all chose to end the camouflage and be their true self. At the 55th Academy Awards, both films received...

    • By Arch 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      Crazy World

      Filmed in 1982, Victoria, played by Julie Andrews, lives in Paris in the 1920s, impoverished except for an unappreciated talent. She ran into Toddy, a male singer who had just lost her job. Toddy was witty and humorous, smart and tactful, and very loyal. I felt a little disappointed when I knew that he was gay and could not be a pair with the beautiful Victoria.
      Because Vitoria's clothes shrunk after washing, Toddy lent her ex-boyfriend's clothes to Vitoria to wear, and unexpectedly found...

    • By Giuseppe 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      Brief comment

      The opening of the movie gives people a very comfortable feeling. The shots of several sketches are slowly switched. With the Crazy World played by the harmonica, it is very comfortable and relaxing.
      The movie version has far fewer songs than the musical, and the only ones that impress are You and Me, Le Jazz Hot and Crazy World. Le Jazz Hot is Victoria's first performance as Victor. It's easy to think of All That Jazz, but there's no irony in it, it's just pure cool and spicy. You and Me...

    • By Colten 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      "Victor/Victoria": The Story of a Fake Man Who Plays as a Woman

      http://blog.trivialfilm.com/2012/12/victorvictoria.html

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      This is the only non-winning film I've seen in recent months, but it gave me a lot of fun! It seems that the good and bad of a movie cannot be measured by awards at all. It's stupid to be superstitious about XX awards!

      The film tells the story of a woman who pretends to be a man and then pretends to be a woman. In the 1930s in the United States, the heroine was a down-and-out female singer...

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    • By Alexa 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      #vicviewing diary#1. Andrews's disguise as a man is the most handsome after Garbo and Dietrich. But in terms of acting skills in drag games, Uncle Hoffman's aunt in Tootsie is more amazing; 2.80 is really the era of sexual liberation, gay and les appear so many in such orthodox movies; 3. Andrews is There is a kind of beauty that has been precipitated by time. This Victor/Victoria plus the image of the grandmother in the princess diaries made me become a fan from a...

    • By Hayden 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      I looked at it and found that I have seen it myself, but it is worth watching again. The characters' stories are very cute, and the show is nice to listen to and look...

    • By Shakira 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      The film won the 55th Academy Award for Best Adapted Score and was nominated for Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction and Costume Design. A lighthearted and humorous plot. A woman who pretends to be a man disguised as a woman, or a pure girl who pretends to be a fake girl, why is this sentence so hard to...

    • By Chelsea 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      I really want to write an ancient version of the story. A man pretends to be Kunsheng in Yue Opera for a living (most men in Peking Opera pretend to be women, and Yue Opera more women pretend to be men), and finally finds true...

    • By Izabella 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Rent a disc or a movie...

    Evaluation action

    "Victor" is definitely one of MGM's best musicals. But it's rarely seen as a standard musical, for one reason it's so exotic—good-looking, but atypical. In many classic musicals, it seems so out of place. It allows people to see how musical films can be made without the narrative logic of Hollywood. The film is different from the story setting of ordinary musical films that are divorced from reality. Although its time back is set in...
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    Movie quotes

    • King Marchand: [working out at a gym] Hey, Squash...

      'Squash' Bernstein: Yeah?

      King Marchand: Can I ask you a... personal question?

      'Squash' Bernstein: Go ahead.

      King Marchand: How long, I mean... exactly when did you know you...

      'Squash' Bernstein: How long have I been gay?

      King Marchand: Yeah.

      'Squash' Bernstein: Oh, God, I can't remember when I wasn't!

      King Marchand: I've known you for fifteen years...

      'Squash' Bernstein: You know a lot of guys, boss, you'd be surprised.

      King Marchand: But, you were all-American! I never saw a rougher, tougher, meaner, sonofabitch football player in all my life.

      'Squash' Bernstein: Boss, if you didn't want the guys to call you queer, you became a rough tough sonofabitchin' football player.

      King Marchand: [suddenly colliding with a large man and his companion] Why don't you watch where you're going, huh?

      Large Man's Companion: [after translating to the Large Man in French] He says that it was your fault and suggests that you apologize.

      King Marchand: Oh, he does, does he?

      'Squash' Bernstein: Come on, boss...

      King Marchand: No, no, no...

      [to Companion]

      King Marchand: Well, you tell him if he'd like an apology, he can just get him some gloves and I'll see him in the ring.

      Large Man's Companion: [translating] Just give him ten minutes. He will be delighted to oblige.

      [they walk off]

      King Marchand: "He'll be delighted to oblige." Who the hell does he think he is?

      'Squash' Bernstein: Guy Langois, the French middleweight boxing champion.

      [King freezes]

      'Squash' Bernstein: But don't worry!

      [whispers]

      'Squash' Bernstein: He's gay.

    • Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: You called. I am Charles Bovin, Private Investigator.

      Labisse: Good. There is something I want you to find out.

      Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: At your service.

      [sits on one of the bar stools]

      Labisse: Be very careful.

      Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: Monsieur, I am always careful.

      Labisse: That stool is broken.

      Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: [beat] It is?

      [stool breaks down]

    • [to Victoria]

      Toddy: Remember, you're a drag queen!