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Thread started 09/03/06 6:04am

DaveDare79

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Barbarella - the movie

I heard Barbarella is one of P's favourite movies. Is it worthy seeing?

From Wikipedia:

Rock-funk artist Prince also has a history of referencing and being inspired by the film Barbarella. His song Endorphin Machine from The Gold Experience album clearly relates to the sexual torture machine Durand Durand uses on Barbarella in the movie. There are even sketches of the Endorphin Machine showing it to be nearly identical to the device in the move. His album O (-> contains between song segues presented and the adventures of a reporter (played by Kirstie Alley) trying to interview Prince. In one such segment his voice is distorted. He explains he is using a "tongue box", which is a device found in Barbarella. Also his band "The New Power Generation" contained for many years a keyboard player named "Tommy Barbarella", a name certainly approved if not chosen by Prince himself.
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Reply #1 posted 09/03/06 7:27am

MickG

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It's awesome. I've been a fan of that movie since I seen it on HBO or some shit like that, strangely that was back when I was like 12?
News: Prince pulls his head out his ass in the last moment.
Bad News: Prince wasted too much quality time doing so.
You have those internalized issues because you want to, you like to, stop.
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Reply #2 posted 09/03/06 7:29am

MickG

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That's the movie where Barbarella gets it on with an angel right?
News: Prince pulls his head out his ass in the last moment.
Bad News: Prince wasted too much quality time doing so.
You have those internalized issues because you want to, you like to, stop.
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Reply #3 posted 09/03/06 7:32am

Soulsista

Anybody seriously into the band Duran Duran has probably already seen this flick. It's an absolute "cult classic" and not to be missed!!!!!
I mean come on - the "orgasmitron" !? lol That is funny stuff.
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Reply #4 posted 09/03/06 10:51am

metalorange

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The style around Diamonds & Pearls was described as 'Godfather III meets Barbarella' which I thought was a great idea - smart clothes and suits with gaudy colours.

Barbarella is a very psychadelic hippyish, cartoon type movie, a very bizarre sci-fi flick, to a certain extent a tame 'sex comedy', certainly not for everybody's taste, now very dated but a cult movie. The opening scenes with Jane Fonda stripping out of her space suit are classic and were copied by Kylie Minogue in her 'Put Yourself In My Place' video.
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