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Barbarella
1968 Jane Fonda
Paramount Pictures Barbarella opened in 1968; it recaptures the spirit of the American comic strips of the early days, a time when even the impossible was possible. The film is marked by the same audacity and originality, the same mixture of fantasy, humour, beauty (and) horror, cruelty and eroticism which made the comic book a wide reading favorite. The physical heroine and the themes of Barbarella reflect not only film and literary techniques, but also certain conflicting ideas of our times.
Barbarella played by star Jane Fonda, is a beautiful girl with long hair, golden skin and a strange, sweet name. Clothes cramp her style, and so she appears in a bare minimum of apparel. Yet she remains mysterious, fragile and invincible and, above all, maintains a sense of innocence. She is a wild creature, realistic and crafty and the archetype of the modern female. She is the modern vamp, the very incarnation of eroticism today. She is the liberated woman, who constantly controls her own destiny rather than submitting to the dictates
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of men and, since she is the mistress of her own fate, she can pick and choose the men she desires. She's something that "armchair psychologists" would look at with arched eyebrows.
The setting for "the film" is the year 40,000 on planet Lythion, where Barbarella has made a forced landing while traveling through outer space alone in her rocket. She handles herself like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in her unique uninhibited fashion, the handsome men who assist her in her outer space adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil
Queen or nor innocent lover, toe Angel Pygar, she just cannot seem to avoid losing at least a part of her skin-tight space suit.
A futuristic romp; Barbarella stars Miss Fonda and co-stars John Phillip Law, Anita Paflenberg, Milo O'Shea, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Marcesu and David Hemmings. The motion picture was directed by Roger Vadim and produced by Dino De Laurentiis in color and Panavision.
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