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Post by geode on Jun 18, 2017 14:36:43 GMT
I saw this in original release, but re-visited it recently. I was bored, so I decided to watch part of it in French. I immediately was aware that Jane Fonda doing her own voice. It was obvious that her French was fluent. It also looked perfectly synced, so I watched the scene back and forth between English and French. Both lip-synced very well, but for at least some sentences it appeared she was originally speaking French and dubbed herself in English.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jun 19, 2017 18:11:40 GMT
I saw Barbarella on TV a couple years ago. It made no dang sense to me.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jun 20, 2017 21:44:08 GMT
Interesting. I'll have to see if the French track is on my dvd.
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Post by geode on Jun 22, 2017 9:00:45 GMT
I saw Barbarella on TV a couple years ago. It made no dang sense to me. It is basically a comic book in terms of having any great meaning. Definitely style over substance. |
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Post by MooseNugget on Jul 2, 2017 18:15:37 GMT
I tried to watch it one time and I got bored too.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 3, 2017 20:56:44 GMT
The star looks great but I have never really enjoyed watching this movie. I've tried a couple of times but it just doesn't work for me.
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Post by geode on Jul 16, 2017 18:09:18 GMT
The star looks great but I have never really enjoyed watching this movie. I've tried a couple of times but it just doesn't work for me. The cinematography by Claude Renoir is great looking as well. |
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Post by telegonus on Jul 22, 2017 17:54:51 GMT
I saw Barbarella in the theater around the time Klute came out, which at last put Jane Fonda on the map as a serious dramatic actress. It was on a double bill with They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. I found it entertaining enough, silly, reasonably well made. Years later, in his book on Sixties movies (Medium Cool?), Ethan Mordden nailed it when he said that things were changing so fast back then that Barbarella was dated before it hit the 'nabes, which pretty much says it all. Back then, a movie could become a time capsule in a matter of months.
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Post by tresix on Jul 22, 2017 19:43:23 GMT
I saw it on a twin bill with "Flesh Gordon". I more prefer "FG", but "Barbarella" was good and fun.
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Post by geode on Jul 26, 2017 6:33:00 GMT
I saw it on a twin bill with "Flesh Gordon". I more prefer "FG", but "Barbarella" was good and fun. They are both pretty "campy".... |
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Post by tresix on Jul 27, 2017 2:10:46 GMT
I saw it on a twin bill with "Flesh Gordon". I more prefer "FG", but "Barbarella" was good and fun. They are both pretty "campy".... Yes, but "F.G." was meant to be. |
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Post by geode on Jul 28, 2017 11:18:14 GMT
They are both pretty "campy".... Yes, but "F.G." was meant to be. So was Barbarella. It was was not so much as a trashy parody as "Flesh Gordon"... a semi-porno effort. |
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Sept 27, 2017 20:53:34 GMT
I love Barbarella.
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Post by geode on Sept 28, 2017 13:51:09 GMT
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 28, 2017 17:52:27 GMT
...another oddity to catch with Jane Fonda is "Spirits of the Dead" in which her co star is her brother Peter. It is a triptych (3 short films) produced and directed by various famous directors including Fellini...
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Post by geode on Oct 3, 2017 7:14:11 GMT
...another oddity to catch with Jane Fonda is "Spirits of the Dead" in which her co star is her brother Peter. It is a triptych (3 short films) produced and directed by various famous directors including Fellini... Saw it decades ago. I think Fellini's segment is considered the best. |
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Post by mszanadu on Oct 6, 2017 17:14:34 GMT
Barbarella (1968) IMPO - Despite it's mixed feelings by most I still enjoyed this classic fun and adventitious film   . To me it seems like this particular type of film is made to not be taken so seriously either . Thanks geode for this interesting trivia on the French / English dialogue too and for your subject post  .
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Post by geode on Oct 7, 2017 19:46:58 GMT
Barbarella (1968) IMPO - Despite it's mixed feelings by most I still enjoyed this classic fun and adventitious film . To me it seems like this particular type of film is made to not be taken so seriously either . Thanks geode for this interesting trivia on the French / English dialogue too and for your subject post . For me now it is mostly the cinematography that draws me in...and I guess it takes me back to an easier time for me. I had just started college and sneaked away from studies to watch it in a matinee back about 49 years ago. I will have to look into the dialogue thing more intently. There were sentences where the number of syllables fit French more than English in the first scene after the strip tease titles. |
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Post by geode on Apr 16, 2019 6:12:53 GMT
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Post by geode on Jun 8, 2019 16:17:17 GMT
Here is the opening credit sequence. Can anybody tell us what is not original to the 1968 release?
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