Myra Breckinridge (1970) Queer Film (F)

Deranged gay – trans film critic Myron Breckinridge (played by gay film critic Rex Reed) undergoes gender‑affirming surgery in Europe and returns to California as the eponymous super-hot Myra (now played by Raquel Welch). Because Myron/Myra is convinced that the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s was responsible for the “false binary of man and woman,” he/she sets out to destroy Hollywood from the inside out.

A disastrous adaptation of Gore Vidal’s novel – directed, if that’s the right word, by Michael Sarne – the film takes Vidal’s gender‑bending satire and mangles it, though the novel was hardly a sacred text to begin with.
With an unfortunate Mae West in a cameo as talent scout Leticia Van Allen, John Huston, and a pre-fame Farah Fawcett.
In the end, Myra doesn’t scandalize, seduce, or shatter the patriarchy—she merely sashays in, strikes a pose, and promptly bores herself...

...and the audience.

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