Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Chitty
Featured Actor Joined: 4/29/05
#1Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:02pm
Does anyone else get a weird vibe when they look at him in photos from the movie? He looks just weird and I get a creepy vibe. Don't know what it is.
Updated On: 7/3/07 at 01:02 PM
#2re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:11pmOMG yes! Mommy, I'm scared!
#3re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:14pmMe too, sister. I am more creeped out when I hear him speak in the role.
#4re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:23pm
Define "creeped out."
Is it made uncomfortable by something that is out of the mainstream?
Made uncomfortable by something that is different?
Those damn differences! You just never know what to expect!
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#5re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:27pmI'm with you, Chitty! I don't know if I'm going to be able to see Hairspray in theatres... Seeing pictures of Travolta in ads on the internet creeps me out enough, I don't know if I'll be able to handle him on the big screen.
#6re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:29pmcreeped out (noun) - heebie jeebies. from the latin: heebvs jeebvs.
PED
#7re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:34pmheebie jeebies - is that an STD?
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#8re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:37pmYeah that one picture of him on the main page and in someone's avatar really creeped me out.
#9re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:37pmPLEASE bring back Anne of Green Gables.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#10re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:37pm
Which is creepier?
This:
or
This?
#11re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:38pm
Yes, I know. The photos and clips have me skeeved out, almost so much I consider not seeing the film. He is not prominently featured in the trailers I have seen, and I think for a reason. The voice he uses is like nails on a chalkboard too-he looks like a man in dress with that fake high pitchy tone of voice. It is bad, bad, bad. I mean when Harvey or Divine played it, I was truly able to suspend my disbelief easily. What bad casting. Oh, and please don't anyone tell me I need to wait to see the movie. His mere image gives me the chills as well as his voice, I dont need to see 2 hours of it to know it bites.
#12re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:39pmis that barbra streisand?
PED
#13re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:39pm
No, Foster, it's a movie:
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#14re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:40pmHOT!
#15re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:13pmGoing from the snippets I've seen, this could well be his worst performance ever. And I say that having seen Staying Alive...
#16re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:18pmGotta go with the flow here-he's a pretty creepy looking and sounding man acting as a woman. I'm not interested in seeing this film either. I'd rather remember Divine. AND Ricki Lake as Tracy.
#17re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:19pmYeah, the picture that was featured on the home page of BWW of Travolta as Edna scared the crap out of me. I don't understand how the creative team let that bad make-up job show up on film.
#18re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:21pm
The early reviews are positive for Johnny T however.
Still, yikes!
#19re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:22pmThat's cause they don't know no better. Sigh.
#20re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:25pmI'm with you, Jane. Divine was simply, well, divine. I'm a big fan of the original film, and when I first saw it I didn't realize it was a woman. I'm not at all familiar with the musical, but I shudder to think about this movie, partly because of Travolta. Someone once mentioned that he looks like an oversized Cabbage Patch doll with sad puppy eyes and I think that about hits the nail on the head.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#21re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:27pm
Travolta doesn't make his first appearance for another 10 minutes or so, as Tracy's overly protective, sheltered mother, Edna, but once you get over the transformation, not to mention that disconcertingly odd accent that sounds something like a cross between Carol Channing and Cher, he wins you over.
Outfitted with noticeably more curvaceous padding than predecessors Divine and Harvey Fierstein, Travolta still manages to pull off some nimble moves that are somehow reminiscent of those dancing hippos in Walt Disney's "Fantasia."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9451
#22re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:30pmpoor Johnny's eyes are close set to begin with. double the size of his head, and he looks like a ragdoll sewn by the blind.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#23re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:39pmor a cabbage patch doll left out to rot in the sun.
#24re: Creeped Out By Travolta in Hairspray
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:50pmThis is supportive mom's daughter. I totally agree with all of your posts. Does anyone else notice the wierd southern accent he tries to use? What's that about?
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