Filmography
Jun. 4th, 2007 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_lady_lilyBarbarella
This is such a cult item I figured I couldn't get away without watching it. I'm actually surprised how well it has aged - and, of course, I finally understand where Duran Duran got their name from.
It is a Very Silly Film. In a world several centuries into the future, where the vast majority of humans have stopped killing each other in wars so long ago that the thought of weapons makes our heroine quite queasy and sex is achieved through a pill, Barbarella is sent off to find the missing scientist Durand-Durand, possesser of the Positronic Ray, and thus stop war and general barbarity returning to the galaxy. She lands on a strange planet, has a bit of an explore, gets caught by a tribe of marauding children with quite scary biting dolls, gets rescued by hunky man in furs, discovers Real Sex, goes to the city of SoGo, has sex with an angel in its labyrinth, discovers what has happened to Durand-Durand, nearly gets bitten to death by budgies, survives the destruction of the city and flown away by said angel with the Black Queen who has, by a quirk of fate and the betrayal of her Grand Vizier, triggered said destruction of planet. I should point out the Grand Vizier is actually called a Concierge, but Grand Vizier felt better.
It is a silly film. And there are lots of breasts, and Barbarella undresses in the opening credits in what is supposed to be outer space weightlessness, but is quite clearly Jane Fonda writhing on plexiglass. But the dialogue is appealing daft and tounge-in-cheek, the whole thing reeks of camp, and it is Very Silly.
Four stars for sheer entertainment value, and for the fact that it has aged surprisingly well, all things considered.
This is such a cult item I figured I couldn't get away without watching it. I'm actually surprised how well it has aged - and, of course, I finally understand where Duran Duran got their name from.
It is a Very Silly Film. In a world several centuries into the future, where the vast majority of humans have stopped killing each other in wars so long ago that the thought of weapons makes our heroine quite queasy and sex is achieved through a pill, Barbarella is sent off to find the missing scientist Durand-Durand, possesser of the Positronic Ray, and thus stop war and general barbarity returning to the galaxy. She lands on a strange planet, has a bit of an explore, gets caught by a tribe of marauding children with quite scary biting dolls, gets rescued by hunky man in furs, discovers Real Sex, goes to the city of SoGo, has sex with an angel in its labyrinth, discovers what has happened to Durand-Durand, nearly gets bitten to death by budgies, survives the destruction of the city and flown away by said angel with the Black Queen who has, by a quirk of fate and the betrayal of her Grand Vizier, triggered said destruction of planet. I should point out the Grand Vizier is actually called a Concierge, but Grand Vizier felt better.
It is a silly film. And there are lots of breasts, and Barbarella undresses in the opening credits in what is supposed to be outer space weightlessness, but is quite clearly Jane Fonda writhing on plexiglass. But the dialogue is appealing daft and tounge-in-cheek, the whole thing reeks of camp, and it is Very Silly.
Four stars for sheer entertainment value, and for the fact that it has aged surprisingly well, all things considered.
