The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film about two drag performers and a transgender woman who travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
- Written and directed by Stephan Elliott.
Bernadette Bassenger
[edit]- [to Shirley] Now listen here, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon, and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!
- [to Felicia] That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock.
- Believe me, Bob, these days gentlemen are an endangered species. Unlike bloody drag queens who just keep breeding like rabbits.
- [to Felicia] It's funny. We all sit around mindlessly slagging off that vile stink-hole of a city. But in its own strange way, it takes care of us. I don't know if that ugly wall of suburbia's been put there to stop them getting in, or us getting out. Come on. Don't let it drag you down. Let it toughen you up. I can only fight because I've learnt to. Being a man one day and a woman the next isn't an easy thing to do.
Tick
[edit]- [to Felicia] Is it true when you were born the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?
Dialogue
[edit]- Bernadette: No, I'll join this conversation on the proviso that we stop bitching about people, talking about wigs, dresses, bust sizes, penises, drugs, night clubs, and bloody Abba!
- Tick: Doesn't give us much to talk about then, does it?
- Felicia: Do you know why this microphone has such a long cord?
- Man In Crowd: Why?
- Felicia: So it's easily retrieved after I've shoved it up your ass.
- Bob: If you don't mind me asking, what kind of cabaret act do you do?
- Felicia: We dress up in women's clothes and parade around mouthing the words to other people's songs.
- Bernadette: Stop flexing your muscles, you big pile of budgie turd. I'm sure your mates will be much more impressed if you just go back to the pub and fuck a couple of pigs on the bar.
- Bob: Bernadette, please.
- Frank: Bernadette? Well I'll be darned. The whole circus is in town. Well I suppose you wanna fuck too do you? Come on Bernadette, come and fuck me. That's it. Come on. Come and fuck me. Come on. Fuck me.
- [Bernadette knees Frank in the groin]
- Bernadette: There, now you're fucked!
- Felicia: [in sweet voice] Mummy, maybe a trip to the outback will help me get over this little... phase I'm going through. And you never know, I might meet some lovely country girl. [in tough voice] I hereby christen this budget Barbie camper... Priscilla. Queen of the Desert! [smashes champagne bottle against bus]
- Bernadette: That's gotta be the understatement of the century.
Cast
[edit]- Terence Stamp - Bernadette Bassenger
- Hugo Weaving - Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra
- Guy Pearce - Adam Whitely/Felicia Jollygoodfellow
- Bill Hunter - Robert "Bob" Spart
- Sarah Chadwick - Marion Barber
- Mark Holmes - Benjamin "Benji" Barber
- Julia Cortez - Cynthia
- Alan Dargin - Alan
- Ken Radley - Frank
- Daniel Kellie - Young Bernadette
- Leighton Picken - Young Adam
