Barbarella
Barbarella
Directed by	Roger Vadim
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis
Written by	Jean-Claude Forest Claude Brulé Clement Wood
Starring	Jane Fonda David Hemmings
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (USA)
Released	October 10, 1968 (USA)
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
Budget	$9,000,000
IMDb profile

Barbarella was originally a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest, who originated the character for serialisation in the French magazine V-Magazine in 1962. It was subsequently published as a stand-alone book by Eric Losfeld. The comic stars Barbarella, a young woman who has numerous adventures, often involving sex, while journeying around the galaxy. Image File history File links This is a video tape cover. ... Roger Vadim (born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov, Paris, France, January 26, 1928; died February 11, 2000), was a journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ... Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... Jean-Claude Forest, born September 11, 1930 in Le Perreux-sur-Marne and died December 30, 1998 in Paris was a French author of comics. ... Jane Fonda, 2001 Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, and political activist. ... David Hemmings in the late 1960s David Hemmings (November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003) was a British movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonionis Blow-Up (1966), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Jean-Claude Forest, born September 11, 1930 in Le Perreux-sur-Marne and died December 30, 1998 in Paris was a French author of comics. ... Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Eric Losfeld (1923? - 1979) was a French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague He was the publisher of Emmanuelle (1967), two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique and Positif) and the works of Ado Kyrou. ... Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman (c. ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ...

The film

A movie adaptation was made in 1968. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

It is famous for a sequence in which the title character performs a striptease in zero gravity during (and inadequately concealed by) the opening credits. A striptease dancer performing. ... Astronauts on the International Space Station display an example of weightlessness. ...

Barbarella is one of the few science fiction erotica films and includes an erotic torture device. Modern science fiction frequently involves themes of sex, gender and sexuality. ... The orgasmatron is a fictional electromechanical device that appears in the 1973 movie Sleeper, which also shows the effects of a related device, an orgasmic orb. ...

The whole film is played in a very tongue-in-cheek manner—especially when it comes to the frequent (but non-explicit) sex scenes. To modern viewers, the film's special effects look cheaply-made and unconvincing, but they were ambitious by the standards of the day.

The film was simultaneously shot in French and English. In the French version, Fonda performs her own lines in French. In the English version, the character Pallenberg's lines are dubbed by Fenella Fielding, at least according to the region2 DVD booklet notes, although others have claimed that the voice actually belongs to Joan Greenwood. Marcel Marceau's lines are also dubbed into English. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Fenella Fielding (b. ... The official DVD logo. ... Joan Greenwood (March 4, 1921 - February 27, 1987) was a British actress who was born in Chelsea and studied at RADA. Her husky voice was her trademark, and in 1995 she was #63 on Empire magazines list of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. ...

De Laurentiis returned to camp science fiction (but without the erotica) with 1974's Flesh Gordon. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Flesh Gordon was a 1974 science fiction and comedy adventure film. ...

It was rumored that Drew Barrymore had obtained the rights to Barbarella, and was going to make a modern version, with her in the title role. However, in May of 2005, sources at the website Cinescape claimed that Lindsay Lohan has signed on to play the character in a remake. [1] Drew Barrymore, in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... Lindsay Dee Lohan[1] (born 2 July 1986) is an American actress, model and pop music singer. ...

Primary cast

• Jane Fonda: Barbarella
• John Phillip Law: Pygar
• Anita Pallenberg: The Great Tyrant
• Milo O'Shea: Concierge/Durand Durand
• Marcel Marceau: Professor Ping
• Claude Dauphin: President of Earth
• David Hemmings: Dildano

Jane Fonda, 2001 Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, and political activist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer who was the common-law wife of Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1977. ... Milo OShea (born June 2, 1926 in Dublin, Ireland) is a character actor, recognizable for his bushy eyebrows, resounding voice and impish smile. ... Marcel Marceau, as Bip Marcel Marceau (born March 22, 1923) is a well-known mime and among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide. ... David Hemmings in the late 1960s David Hemmings (November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003) was a British movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonionis Blow-Up (1966), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. ...

Trivia

Virna Lisi was cast in the title role in Barbarella , but she turned it down and returned to Italy. Virna Lisi Italian Virni Lisi (born in 1937 as Virna Lisa Pieralisi) began her film career as a teenager in 1953. ...

Star Jane Fonda was married to director Roger Vadim during the production and distribution of Barbarella.

The original comic book version of Barbarella was probably modelled on Brigitte Bardot who was once married to Vadim. Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress and model, daughter of an industrialist. ...

The psychedelic "blob" patterns that form much of the special effects in the film are created using an oil wheel projector, a popular visual effects device also used in many other '60s movies, as well as in many anti-drug educational films. The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ...

The band Duran Duran takes its name from Dr. Durand Durand (O'Shea), a mad scientist who appears in the film as one of the villains. O'Shea repaid the compliment by appearing (as an older version of Durand Durand) in Arena, the band's 1985 concert film. Some of the band's early appearances were at a nightclub called Barbarella's, in their home town of Birmingham, England. The band continued the homage to its roots with their 1997 US single, "Electric Barbarella" (released in the UK in 1998). The band has continually used sound clips from the film in their songs, most notably 1989's "Burning The Ground" and the remixes for 1990's "Violence Of Summer". Duran Duran are a new wave and post-punk band, often classified into the aggregate 80s rock genre and notable for a long series of catchy, synthesizer-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. ... Caucasian, male, aging, crooked teeth, messy hair, lab coat, spectacles/goggles, dramatic posing — one popular stereotype of a mad scientist. ... A typical cartoon villain. ... Arena (An Absurd Notion) is a concept concert video filmed during the course of Duran Durans 1984 Sing Blue Silver North American Tour. ... This article is about the year. ... A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001...

As the 1980s girl group Fuzzbox could not get permission to use Thunderbirds for their song International Rescue they spoofed Barbarella with Adrian Edmondson playing the Durand Durand character. Weve Got a Fuzzbox and Were Gonna Use It, or Fuzzbox for short, started out life as a punk band in the early 80s returning during the late 80s with more of a pop look and sound. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Adrian Edmondson (sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson, born 24 January 1957 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is a British actor, comedian, director, and writer who gained fame as Vyvyan in The Young Ones in the early 1980s. ...

Another famous singer to use the iconography of Barbarella in a pop video was Kylie Minogue who recreated the infamous zero-gravity striptease her award winning video for Put Yourself in My Place Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... Put Yourself In My Place was the second single released from singer Kylie Minogues 1994 album Kylie Minogue. ...

The band Matmos takes its name from the underground fluid creature in the film, as does the lava lamp manufacturer Mathmos. Matmos (left to right): Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt Matmos is an experimental electronica duo from San Francisco on the Matador Records label. ... A lava lamp in the dark A lava lamp is a novelty item typically used for decoration rather than illumination. ... Mathmos is an English company that sells lighting products, most famously its numerous lava lamp models. ...

Techno producers Sven Väth and Ralf Hildenbeutel recorded an album entitled The Art of Dance under the alias Barbarella. The singles from this album, a few of which were very popular among electronic music enthusiasts, took their inspiration from the film, and included titles such as The Future, The Spaceship, The Mission, and The Secret Chamber of Dreams, as well as 5 tracks that were named for some variation on the name Barbarella. Techno- is a prefix relating to technology. ... Sven Väth (b. ...

The manga artists collectively known as CLAMP parodied Barbarella in one chapter of their Miyuki-Chan In Wonderland, the chapter titled TV no Kuni no Miyuki-chan (Miyuki-chan in TV Land) shows several of the characters (including some female versions) trying to seduce the main character. The manga contains heavy lesbian overtones. CLAMP is a team of women who create manga. ...

Musical

A musical based on the movie written by Dave Stewart premiered in Vienna, Austria on March 11, 2004. The title role was played by Nina Proll. The musical closed on January 1, 2005. A cast recording was made, but only 100 copies were pressed for the public. These were distributed by lottery to members of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (United Stages of Vienna)'s "Musical Club". David Allen Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart, was born on September 9, 1952 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya, Russian: Вена) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...

See also

• List of counterculture films

This is a list of counterculture films made in the 1960s and 1970s The Misfits (1961) Scorpio Rising (1963) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Chappaqua (1966) Youre a Big Boy Now (1966) How I Won the War (1967) Magical Mystery Tour (1967) The Trip (1967) Barbarella (1968) If. ...

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