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The movie was actually pretty bad, but it's nice to see the director is cool
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To be fair here, it doesn't really resolve the critique over if the character is using transphobic signalling and stereotypes in order to signal disgust and horror to the viewer, which is a critique I've seen elsewhere.
I've seen a specific scene pointed to where the villain is shopping at a pharmacy or other similar store and a child points at him and goes "that creepy man is here again" followed by the villain screaming in rage in his car.
My take it after having seen it is that I don't think the intention was to traffic in transphobia stereotypes, etc. The villain is supposed to a like satanic glam rock weirdo cis man. But at the same time, it's coming out in an atmosphere of extremely virulent transphobia, so I think those readings are pretty much inescapable
Coming to this a month late, as I just watched the movie and did some searching to see what people thought.
I’m not sure if I totally missed something or people were just reading too much into it, but I didn’t get any kind of trans messaging/interpretation at all. I just thought that Nic Cage was supposed to be a Satanic weirdo (and as you said, I took him as a cis-man). Honestly, Cage’s character being trans didn’t cross my mind at all, I just thought that he was a weirdo.