The Goddess Bunny
Directed byNick Bougas
StarringSandie Crisp
John Aes-Nihil
Glen Meadmore
Distributed byWavelength Video[1]
Release date
1994
Running time
85 minutes[1][2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Goddess Bunny is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Nick Bougas, which is about the life of a transgender woman named Sandie Crisp, also known as the Goddess Bunny.[3][4]

Overview

The film depicts a tour of the Los Angeles, California underground transgender, lesbian, and gay nightclub scene, as hosted by the Goddess Bunny. The film also explores the life of Crisp, mainly focusing on her transition, as well as her battle with polio as a child.

Controversy

Crisp became a subject of controversy when a video, which featured the Star Fox character Andross singing a Spanish version of "Itsy-Bitsy-Spider" before cutting to a scene from the movie of Crisp tap dancing, was first released in 2005 in the form of an online video on eBaum's World[5] and then reuploaded on YouTube.[6] The video, with the Spanish title "Obedece a la morsa"[5] or, in English, "Obey the Walrus", subsequently went viral,[5][7] reaching more than 5 million views on YouTube as of 2020.[6]

The director, Nick Bougas, is also a cartoonist whose work has been described as racist, antisemitic and homophobic.[8][9][10]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Goddess Bunny". Vhscollector.com.
  2. ↑ "The Goddess Bunny". IMDb.
  3. ↑ "The Goddess Bunny". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25.
  4. ↑ Stuart, Gwynedd (April 29, 2017). "At the Punk Version of DragCon, NYC Queens Honor an L.A. Legend: The Goddess Bunny". LA Weekly.
  5. 1 2 3 "Obedece a la morsa / Obey the walrus". Know Your Meme. 11 April 2010. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  6. 1 2 Obey the Walrus on YouTube, January 21, 2008
  7. ↑ Hughes, Joselyn (January 20, 2010). "7 Hardest Things To Watch That We've Shown On Tosh.0". Tosh.0.
  8. ↑ Ellis, Emma Grey (June 19, 2017). "The Alt-Right Found Its Favorite Cartoonist—and Almost Ruined His Life". Wired. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2019. But internet anti-Semites (or at least people fishing for a reaction) started splicing Garrison's work together with the work of Nick Bougas, aka A. Wyatt Man, a director and illustrator responsible for one of the web's most enduring anti-Semitic images.
  9. ↑ Bernstein, Joseph (February 5, 2015). "The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2018. So. You could stop right there and say that Nick Bougas is the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and not be wrong.
  10. ↑ Malice, Michael (May 19, 2019). The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-250-15467-5. Under the pen name of 'A. Wyatt Mann,' artist Nick Bougas has drawn many explicitly racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic cartoons where there isn't even a pretense of humor.


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