Lets Do the Timewarp Again Trope

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The Rocky Horror Picture Prove: Let's Do the Fourth dimension Warp Over again is a 2022 made-for-Goggle box remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Bear witness, which showtime aired October 20, 2022 on Flim-flam.

This new take on the 1975 cult film (which director Kenny Ortega considers every bit a tribute to the original rather than a standard remake) features Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Victoria Justice as Janet, Broadway alumnus Ben Vereen as Dr. Scott, Adam Lambert as Eddie, and Tim Curry (the original Frank-North-Furter) as the Criminologist.

This version stays very true to the original, even including elements from the stage musical (such as the Usherette), only features a new concept in which the entire picture show is shown at a movie house to an In-Universe audience (full of Rocky Horror fans), who would occasionally yell out a few of the pic's iconic callbacks.

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The Rocky Horror Motion picture: Permit's Do the Fourth dimension Warp Again contains examples of:

• Abominable Auditorium: The Framing Device of fans walking into a Gothic mansion of a cinema called the Castle ^note Casa Loma in real life. Merely given the fanbase, information technology's the kind of thing they'd like. The In-Universe movie is set in the same castle with the now dilapidated Castle movie theater sign withal outside.
• Actor Allusion: Riff Raff'southward pilus color may remind some people of Carlos from Descendants, another Boob tube motion-picture show Kenny Ortega was involved with.
  • During the dinner scene earlier they eat Eddie, Columbia says, "I hope it's not meatloaf again." as a reference to Meat Loaf playing Eddie in the first film.
  • During Wild and Untamed Thing, the dancer in the long coat standing next to Ben Vereen, adjusts his bowler hat and strikes a Bob Fosse-esque pose in reference and tribute to Vereen's starring Broadway turns in Pippin and Fosse.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Several characters undergo this. Janet (every bit played by Victoria Justice) goes from blonde to brunette, Columbia sports pink pilus instead of the traditional ruby, Riff Raff's pilus is now gray instead of blonde, Magenta's pilus goes from red to magenta, and Frank is now a Fiery Redhead.
• Adaptational Gender Identity: Frank Due north. Furter, who'southward commonly portrayed as a transvestite, is portrayed by trans actress Laverne Cox, and has his pronouns inverse accordingly. Despite this, she still calls herself a "Sweet Transvestite" in her "I Am" Song.
• Adaptational Modesty: Rocky wears sheer boxer shorts for most of the film rather than the speedo from the theatrical version. Columbia is fully clothed for her "Rose Tint My World" number.
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The police force statements in Crim's book are the same every bit the original picture show, including mentioning Frank being male person.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Frank is at present a woman but still calls herself a "Sweet Transvestite" in the titular song.
• And You lot Were There:
  • Riff Raff and Columbia's actors, Reeve Carney and Annaleigh Ashford play a couple in the picture palace at the start with Carney being the guy The Usherette makes takes his feet off of a seat.
  • Like in the original, Laverne Cox, Reeve Carney, Christina Millian, Annaleigh Ashford, and the Transylvanian ensemble appear as extras during the "Dammit Janet" number. Information technology's fabricated very clear towards the finish of the flick that these groundwork characters are actually Frank and the others in disguise (in the original, information technology's only hinted at).
• Creative License – Geography: Brad proposes to Janet on Mary Shelley's grave exterior Denton church. In reality she was buried in Bournemouth, England.
• Ascended Meme: Nosotros see some of the Audience Participation that fans shout at the kickoff movie and Columbia saying "I hope information technology'southward non meatloaf again." is also based on what fans shout during the dinner scene.
• Audience Participation: In the nearly epic expansion of the original motion picture's version, the Framing Device is a cinema which is showing the remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show, complete with the audience using most of the cues that can still use to the remake.

• Bookcase Passage: When Riff Raff leads Brad and Janet up to the ballroom, he takes them through a surreptitious passage that emerges from a fireplace.
  • Rocky'southward gym equipment is hidden in a secret room behind some shelves.
• Bowdlerise: Since this was a prime number-time TV-14-rated production, a lot of things are gentled down (Eddie's decease, and the presentation of his corpse; the contents of the ashtrays in the Zen Room; the Medusa device freezing its victims in identify instead of turning them into nude statues). The costumes are somewhat less revealing, and the ready design a bit less... phallic. Amusingly, the post-coital cigarette shared between Brad and Frank is removed completely, likely due to No Smoking as a result of being scheduled before the Watershed.
  • To be fair, the "Medusa device freezing its victims in place" part may have been a reference to the original play....that and/or the obvious upkeep issues.
• By the Hair: Frank pulls Brad by the pilus to stop him reaching his glasses when she surprises him in bed.
• The Cameo: President of The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Social club, Sal Piro plays the wedding photographer at the start. Likely to make up for his blink or you'll miss it cameo in Stupor Treatment.
• Colorblind Casting: Dr. Scott and Eddie are related but played by actors of different races, same goes for siblings Magenta and Riff Raff.
• Cue Card: Riff Raff reads from cue cards that Magenta holds during the scene where he addresses to Dr. Frank Due north Furter that Rocky has escaped.
• Decomposite Character:
  • Due to Tim Curry's poor health, The Criminologist has an assistant played by Jayne Eastwood who does all his dance moves for him.
  • In the stage play a faux cinema worker called The Usherette sings "Scientific discipline Fiction Double Feature". In the original picture she'southward replaced by a pair of lips on a black background. Here The Usherette sings it at the start just the Night Reprise is sung at the finish by two pairs of lips (The Usherette'due south and Frank's).
• Foreshadowing: Before the car breaks down, the radio mentions that UFOs have recently been sighted.
• Framing Device: Starts and ends with The Usherette in a cinema, watching the movie.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Yous can pause and read Brad, Janet and Scott's police statements. The writing's as fleck blurry but information technology'south easier to read than in the original movie.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": Brad sings Dammit Janet while a funeral procession is going by in the background.
• Gender Flip: The graphic symbol Frank is at present referred to with female person pronouns and played by Laverne Cox.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: The costumes for "Rose Tint My World", equally well equally a dusting of golden makeup on the actors in that number.
• Adept Colours, Evil Colours: Co-ordinate to a behind the scenes look run during the commercial suspension only humans clothing blue, the costume designer even referred to the color of Janet's clothes as "victim blue", Transylvanians are more likely to wearable cherry colors. Columbia wears multi-color hair and wearing apparel with both.
• Grave Sense of humour: During Dammit Janet, Brad and Janet lean confronting Frankenstein creator, Mary Shelley'southward gravestone. ^annotation Not the real one.
• Greek Chorus: Also as The Criminologist, the moving-picture show has The Usherette and a false-shadowcast Studio Audience.
• Guy-on-Guy Is Hot: Brad and Rocky, so Brad, Janet, and Rocky, in the pool scene.
• Handshake Substitute: Brad and Ralph do a fist bump at the hymeneals.
• Hide Your Lesbians: Averted cheers to the gender-flipped Frank Northward Furter, as in the original Columbia/Magenta is just teased or hinted at but Frank/Janet and Frank/Columbia are explicit.
• Lightning Can Practice Anything: It strikes Rocky and brings him to life.
• Logo Joke: Like in the first motion picture, we hear the 20th Century Play a joke on music played on a pianoforte instead of an orchestra but we see this in the cinema on the screen rather than it existence the first thing we see.
  • They didn't bother with a Play tricks logo or an RKO tower during the floor show and instead had a mock Empire State Building and had Frank lying in a replica of Male monarch Kong (2005)'s manus.
• Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Toward the end of "I'm Gonna Make You lot a Human being, Function 2", the pianist plays Felix Mendelssohn's "Human action V Prelude" of A Midsummer Night's Dream every bit a wedding recessional while Frank and Rocky walk together paw-in-hand as "bride and groom" while flower petals shower on them.
• Magical Security Cam: The Criminologist has photographs of scenes we saw earlier in Frank'due south castle.
• Marshmallow Hell: Frank does it to Janet in her sleeping accommodation.
• Mic Driblet: Frank does this afterward announcing that "Eddie has left the castle" subsequently killing him.
• Monochrome to Color: When Bead starts singing "In one case In A While", it starts with his face on a blackness and white monitor but zooms in and fades to color.
• Mythology Gag: Numerous. Not surprisingly, Tim Curry gets the first one in the show - a subtle throwing up of two fingers when the audience at abode is surely cheering. At one point during "Science Fiction Double Feature", we get a cursory shut up of the Usherette's lips as she sings, a nod to the famous red lips that opened the 1975 moving picture. The lips, now framed in black, sing the reprise of said song during the closing credits.
  • Likewise, we have this line during the dinner scene:
  • Rocky existence born in a soda fridge is a nod to the original phase show, in particular where Frank kept Eddie after he took part of his brain to employ on Rocky (with some productions also using the top of said fridge as the slab Rocky is laying on when he is created).
  • Combined with Brick Joke: During "Planet, Schmanet, Janet", while Frank chastises Janet, she crawls to some telephone booths... with bodily telephones! This may lead the audience to wonder, "Wait, I idea castles didn't accept telephones!"
  • The in-universe screening of Rocky Horror starts with the logo from the original flick, complete with the distinctive piano-based version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.
  • The fanfare that plays before the "Don't Dream It, Be It" portion of the Floor Show is the exact same fanfare from the original moving picture.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Ben Vereen as Dr. Scott.
  • Though this might be deliberate as Richard O'Brien prefers Dr. Scott to speak in an American accent because he's pretending to exist American. It was Jim Sharman who insisted that he have a german accent in the first movie.
• Plot-Sensitive Button: Without any apparent fine tuning or calibration, the Medusa Transducer can freeze and unfreeze whoever Frank wants, simply by pulling the lever. Rocky, especially, gets frozen within pretty much no time to calibrate the machine.
• Race Lift: The new Frank, Dr. Scott, and Magenta are black; Rocky is played by Russian-Indian actor Staz Nair. There are also rather more not-white actors playing the Transylvanians.
• Raised Lighter Tribute: The audience do this during the chorus of Over At The Frankenstein Identify.
• Remake Cameo: The Criminologist is none other than Tim Curry himself!
• Screaming Woman: The Criminologist'south banana unleashes a long scream after she hears a clap of thunder. Columbia and Janet also take their moments.
• Shot-for-Shot Remake: Information technology's pretty similar to the first pic apart from the lips singing Scientific discipline Fiction Double Feature being replaced with the Usherette from the original play.
• Show Within a Show: The whole thing is being watched by an audience in a cinema.
• Sistine Steal;
  • The stained drinking glass window in Rocky's weight room shows the two easily about to touch fingers with a lightning commodities between them.
  • When Frank and Rocky are killed, their bodies are positioned to resemble Michelangelo'south famous painting, "The Cosmos of Adam" (with Rocky in Adam'due south position and Frank in God'due south).
• Sliding Calibration of Fourth Wall Hardness: Goes a degree softer than the original pic by having a in-universe audition who are also watching the flick, complete with the usher grapheme from the play who looks directly at the camera while singing.
• Stock Sound Effect: Believe information technology or non, the "Chimes" sound effect institute on iPhones is used as the church building bells, and some people have actually chosen the film out for using this.
• Studio Audience: It occasionally cuts to people in a cinema shouting abuse at the screen merely like the fans in real life.
• Taxidermy Terror: Some stuffed animals in the foyer on the style in, most notably a huge bear.
• Telefrag: When Riff Raff and Magenta beam off to the Planet Transsexual in the Galaxy of Trasylvania, they demolish ane of the castle's towers on the mode out.
• Teleportation: Riff Raff and Magenta turn into energy and beam off into the sky (demolishing one of the towers in the process) a few minutes before the castle beams off to the planet Transexual.
• Truer to the Text: "Science Fiction Double Characteristic" existence sung by an usherette happens in the original play. The first moving picture uses a pair of lips due to Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn arguing over who would sing it.
• Visual Pun: When a preview of the new "Dammit, Janet" sequence (which is mostly gear up in a cemetery) was put on the Internet, fans couldn't resist to pointing out in comments sections that Brad and Janet are literally dancing on graves.
  • When Brad talks about "pulling our aces" when he and Janet are getting undressed, a few ace cards are seen when his pants get pulled downwardly.
• The Voiceless: The Criminologist's banana never talks.

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