Synopsis: The film is a combination of pornography and science fiction, and Barbarina is a 40,000-year-old female James Bond, specializing in subduing demons and ghosts in space galaxies. When she is forced to land on a planet, she faces a gay evil queen, a handsome blind angel, and so on
Somehow I found this movie, perhaps because of a report I saw in 2004: American fans chose the "Top Ten Sexy Sci-Fi Actresses", Jane Fonda in the movie "Space Heroes" is now nearly 70 years old, but still beat many young beauties and became the number one sexy sci-fi actress, and the nude shot of Mira Jovovich in "The Fifth Element" is as memorable as Christina Logan's cold love affair in "Terminator 3".
Despite the above glory, the film, which was released in 1968, now seems a bit ridiculous, stupid, and even nonsense. However, it is loved by science fiction fans because of the sense of the times. It could also be because of Jane Fonda's nude show.
Let's start with Jane Fonda: Jane Fonda is an actress, producer, model, and fitness coach.
She comes from a family of famous performers, her father Henry Fonda is an Oscar winner, her childhood family lived in Beverly Hills, and her niece is Brigitte Fonda (I have seen "The Man and the Woman" and "Two-Faced Female Scorpion" look very Fonda) and is also a well-known Hollywood actor.
Jane Fonda has done a lot of business and can make a career every time.
As a model, she has been on Vogue cover many times. As an actress, he won two Oscars (Best Actress Award at the 44th Academy Awards in Willow Lane in 1971, 51st in Honor in 1978), and countless other awards. As a fitness trainer, home video videos sold 17 million copies, the world's first. Jane Fonda is also a fashion icon, with many classic images, many of which have become memories of an era. One of her most famous figures is the film: Barbarella, a heroine with brilliant blond hair, slightly permed, and scantily clad, though not so plump. Subsequently, she also appeared in the famous magazine LIFE at that time with this "gun beauty" dress, making this image more widely circulated. In that conservative era, the image of Barbarina became synonymous with sexiness. Throughout the '70s, this image of Jane Fonda became a household name, and the film was part of jane Fonda's "sexy kitten" era in her film career. In this period, Fonda always dressed up with curly blonde hair, her eyes were full of the confusion of a girl, and her clothes were generally sexy.
That said, Fonda never liked the image.
Years later, when she saw the image on the Ellen show, she firmly stated that she would not go back to that time when she was killed.
Because the look didn't come from Fonda's own aesthetic, but from her first husband, Roger Vadim, the director of Barbarina. He has a fan-like paranoia about the golden curly-haired maiden. Fonda originally had a dark brown color, and it was because of her husband's preference that she dyed blonde hair.
Years later, Fonda said in an interview with Vanity Fair that she cared too much about men's opinions.
She said —"
From the time of my father, I cared a lot about what men thought of me. When I'm around him, I want to get his affirmation.
So Jane Fonda was the first sci-fi movie in film history to appear in the first nude show.
Because the original author, Jean Claude Forrest, created Barbara based on Brigitte Bardot (the film's director Roger Vadim's first wife), but Bardot said she didn't want to play the sexy nude role anymore. Sophia Loren was put on the agenda, and coincidentally she was pregnant, so she turned down Barbara's role. So Raquel Welch became the third candidate, but at that time she was filming Myra Breckinridge's "Mela Forever", which was also the pioneering work that would make her a sexy actress in the future, so she had no skills! By this time Jane Fonda had become Roger Vadim's third wife, declaring that science fiction was a fast-moving genre and using his three-inch tongue to convince Jane Fonda to star in the only science fiction film of her own awkward life, with obvious nude highlights and sexy identities. Jane Fonda said in a later interview that although she had shot nude scenes in some of her previous films, she had to be drunk to pluck up the courage to strip naked at the beginning of the film, so that in the next few shots, she still finished with a drunken feeling. Also in keeping with the principle of "come and go," Jane Fonda recommended John Philip Law (as a blind angel) to Roger Vadim, who became friends during The Rush to Sunset (1967). So the film was finished. Jane Fonda's irresistible combination of innocence and sensuality made the film a cheesy, seductive film, and she was also ranked 98th out of 100 greatest movie stars, and the film ranked 24th out of 100 sexiest moments.
The success of the film sixty years ago made director Roger Vadim obsessed with remakes and was always eager to try. In 1999, news broke that a remake of the film was underway, that Warner Bros. had acquired the rights from Paramount Pictures, and that Roger Vadim had expressed interest in starring as Barbarella alongside Sherilyn Fenn or Drew Barrymore, and that the remake would be more faithful to the original comic. But it didn't happen until the death of the French director and beauty collector in 2000.
1. It is said that the sequel to Barbara was planned to be released in November 1968. Producer Robert Evans said the title of the film would be "Barbara Falls," in which the characters had an underwater adventure.
2. Terry Southern (screenwriter) said dino de Laurentis contacted him in 1990 to write a sequel that was "cheap, but with lots of action and a lot of sex", and possibly starred by Fonda's daughter.
3. At the beginning of the 21st century, a new version of Barbara was proposed, and director Robert Rodriguez was interested in developing one. Universal Plans to produce the film, starring Rose McGowan as Barbara. In the end, it ended up with a budget and various reasons.
There is no doubt that Jane Fonda is very good at this role, as she can both handle lively moments and show the sexiness of the character. In 98 minutes, Jane Fonda's sci-fi fashion show changed into seven outfits, basically revealing a variety of feminine and sexy lingerie shows, which was also unique sixty years ago. Not to mention the nude striptease that begins the movie, which is of course the biggest highlight.