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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2007) | Barbarella, also known as Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy is a 1968 erotic science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim, based on the French Barbarella comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. Image File history File links BarbarellaPoster. ...
Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov (January 26, 1928 – February 11, 2000) was a French 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. ...
Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov (January 26, 1928 – February 11, 2000) was a French journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ...
Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer. ...
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ...
David Hemmings in Blowup David Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonionis Blowup in 1966 (opposite Vanessa Redgrave), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. ...
Ugo Tognazzi Ugo Tognazzi (March 23, 1922 - October 27, 1990) was an Italian film, TV and theatre actor, director and screenwriter. ...
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Claude Renoir (December 4, 1914 - September 5, 1993) was a cinematographer. ...
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Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov (January 26, 1928 – February 11, 2000) was a French journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ...
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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. ...
Style Barbarella is famous for a sequence in which the title character, played by Jane Fonda, undresses in zero gravity during the opening credits. Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ...
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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.[citation needed]
The film was simultaneously shot in French and English. Some characters' lines were performed by the same actors in both languages; others were not: The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
- In the French version, Fonda performs her own lines in French.
- The region 2 DVD booklet notes claim that in the English version, the Great Tyrant's lines are dubbed by Fenella Fielding, although others have claimed that the voice actually belongs to Joan Greenwood.
- Marcel Marceau's lines are also dubbed into English.
De Laurentiis returned to camp science fiction (but with far less erotica) with 1980's Flash Gordon. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...
Fenella Fielding (born November 17, circa 1930) is an English-born actress. ...
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Flash Gordon is a 1980 science fiction film, based on the eponymous comic strip character Flash Gordon. ...
Primary cast Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ...
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Anita Pallenberg (born January 25, 1944 in Rome, Italy) is a model, actress and fashion designer. ...
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 (born Marcel Mangel) (March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007) was a well-known mime artist, among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide. ...
David Hemmings in Blowup David Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonionis Blowup in 1966 (opposite Vanessa Redgrave), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. ...
Reception and cultural influence The film was both a box office and critical failure. Variety claimed that "Despite a certain amount of production dash and polish and a few silly-funny lines of dialog, Barbarella isn't very much of a film. Based on what has been called an adult comic strip [by Jean Claude Forest], the Dino De Laurentiis production is flawed with a cast that is not particularly adept at comedy, a flat script, and direction which can't get this beached whale afloat."[1] Another major critic at the time claimed the film was a "mix of poor special effects and the Marquis de Sade" However, it has gained a cult following since its re-release in 1977 on home video, and has had considerable influence on pop culture in the decades following its original release. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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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. ...
Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ...
This article does not discuss cultist groups, personality cults, or cult in its original sense of religious practice. See cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term cult. A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of pop culture. ...
Music One of the film's biggest realms of influence has been on the world of music. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
1980s - Duran Duran, one of the most influential British acts of the 1980s, took their name from Barbarella character Durand Durand. They have frequently referenced the movie and character (see below).
- The American pop band The Bongos recorded a song called "Barbarella" on their RCA EP "Numbers With Wings". It became a college radio favorite and dancefloor hit in 1983.
Duran Duran are an English pop group notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ...
Weve Got a Fuzzbox and Were Gonna Use It (shortened to Fuzzbox for the U.S. release of their first album) were an all-girl Birmingham, England based, pop punk quartet that was loud, gaudy, and mildly controversial. ...
Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed Supermarionation. The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery. ...
Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed Supermarionation. The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery. ...
Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957), sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. ...
The Bongos, formed in Hoboken, New Jersey, were a pop band active in the early eighties. ...
1990s In 1992, 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. For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ...
Sven Väth (sometimes Sven Vaeth), born October 26, 1964 near Frankfurt, Germany, is a DJ who has produced a large body of work since his career began in 1982. ...
Another famous singer to use the iconography of Barbarella in a pop video was Kylie Minogue who recreated the infamous zero-gravity strip-tease in her award winning 1994 video for Put Yourself in My Place. Kylie Ann Minogue (pronounced [1]) (born May 28, 1968) is a Brit and Grammy award-winning Australian pop singer-songwriter and actress. ...
Put Yourself in My Place was the second single released from singer Kylie Minogues 1994 album Kylie Minogue. ...
The British band Jamiroquai also mentions a "baby Barbarella" in their hit 1996 song Cosmic Girl. Jamiroquai (A portmanteau of Jam and iroquai, loosely based on the native American Indian tribe the Iroquois) is a Grammy Award-winning English funk / soul / disco band. ...
In 1998, front man Scott Weiland of the bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver released a solo album entitled 12 Bar Blues. The hit song from that album which spawned a music video was titled Barbarella. The lyrics of the song pay homage to several science fiction television shows and movies. Scott Weiland (born Scott Richard Kline, October 27, 1967, Santa Cruz, California [1]) is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist. ...
Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) was a popular Grammy Award-winning American rock band in the 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of Scott Weiland (vocals), brothers Robert (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion). ...
Velvet Revolver (abbreviated to VR) is a Grammy Award-winning hard rock supergroup with three former members of Guns N Roses — Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum — plus Scott Weiland, the former-lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, and Dave Kushner of the 80s punk band Wasted Youth. ...
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 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. ...
Duran Duran The band Duran Duran takes its name from the mad scientist Dr. Durand Durand.[citation needed] O'Shea repaid the compliment by appearing (as an older version of Durand Durand) in Arena, the band's 1985 concert film. (Though the Arena DVD subtitles spell the villain's name as "Duran Duran".) Duran Duran are an English pop group notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ...
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Arena (An Absurd Notion) is a concept concert video filmed during the course of Duran Durans 1984 Sing Blue Silver North American Tour. ...
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Some of the band's early appearances were at a nightclub called Barbarella's, in their home town of Birmingham, England. 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". The band continued the homage to its roots with their 1997 US single, "Electric Barbarella" (released in the UK in 1998). Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
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Burning The Ground is the 20th single by Duran Duran, released in December of 1989 as the only new track on the compilation album Decade: Greatest Hits. ...
The Violence Of Summer is the 21st single by Duran Duran, and the first single from the 1990 Liberty album. ...
Electric Barbarella is the 29th single by Duran Duran, and the first official single from the album Medazzaland. ...
Stephen Duffy, an original member of Duran Duran, released a solo song titled "Barbarellas" on his 1998 I Love My Friends album. Stephen Anthony James Duffy (born May 30, 1960 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England) is a British songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. ...
Duran Duran are an English pop group notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ...
Prince Rock-funk artist Prince also has a history of referencing and being inspired by the film Barbarella.[citation needed] His song Endorphin Machine from The Gold Experience album clearly relates to the sexual torture machine Durand Durand uses on Barbarella in the movie.[citation needed] There are even sketches of the Endorphin Machine showing it to be nearly identical to the device in the movie. His Love Symbol album contains between song segues about 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", a device found in Barbarella (which is mentioned by name). Also, his band "The New Power Generation" contained for many years a keyboard player who used the pseudonym "Tommy Barbarella", which was certainly approved of by, and probably chosen by, Prince himself. Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...
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Kirstie Louise Alley (born January 12, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American actress best known for her role in the TV show Cheers. ...
Other influences In the world of comics, 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. Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ...
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Clamp (or CLAMP) is an all-female Japanese mangaka group. ...
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There is a European long/short hedge fund quoted on the Irish Stock Exchange that has the name Pygar Fund, inspired by the character of that name.[citation needed] A hedge fund is a private investment fund charging a performance fee and typically open to only a limited range of qualified investors. ...
The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) is Irelands stock exchange and can trace its history to 1793. ...
A company in the UK sells lava lamps and oil projectors under the name Mathmos. 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. ...
From 1984 to 2002, a nightclub located in downtown Orlando, Florida was called Barbarella, inspired by the film. Nickname: Location in Orange County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State Counties Orange Government - Mayor Buddy Dyer (D) Area - City 101 sq mi (261. ...
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Special effects 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. For psychedelics, see psychedelic drug. ...
Visual effects is the term given to a sub-category of special effects in which images or frames of a movie, are created, recorded, or manipulated for film and video. ...
The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). ...
Remake A remake of Barbarella is currently being planned. It will be penned by current James Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, and produced by Dino and Martha De Laurentiis.[2] It was recently announced that Sin City director Robert Rodriguez is slated to direct the remake for Universal Studios.[3] The remake of Barbarella was originally planned in the 1990s with Roger Vadim as director, and actresses Sherilyn Fenn and Drew Barrymore were considered for the title role.[4] As of May 2007, it was announced that actress Erica Durance of the WB's Smallville was a front-runner for a 2008 remake. However, subsequent reports have identified British actress Sienna Miller as the favorite to take the role, along with Rodriguez's Grindhouse star Rose McGowan. According to Elle magazine, McGowan has been cast in the title role.[5] 007 redirects here. ...
Neal Purvis (born September 9, 1961) is a screenwriter best known for the James Bond films The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ...
Robert Wade (born 1962) is a screenwriter best known for the James Bond films The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ...
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. ...
Sin City is a 2005 neo-noir anthology film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. ...
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. ...
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Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov (January 26, 1928 – February 11, 2000) was a French journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ...
Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn[1] on February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award nominated American actress and filmmaker, best known for playing Audrey Horne on the cult TV series Twin Peaks, for her roles in Ruby, Of Mice and Men, Boxing Helena...
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. ...
Erica Durance (French surname pronounced (IPA) [dy. ...
Smallville is an American television series created by writer/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and was initially broadcast by The WB. After its fifth season, the WB and UPN merged to form The CW, which is the current broadcaster for the show in the United States. ...
Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an American-born English[1] actress and model. ...
Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an American actress best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB television series Charmed and the cult-classic The Doom Generation. ...
ELLE is a worldwide magazine that focuses on womens fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. ...
According to the New York Observer, Universal Studios has backed out of funding the movie because of Rodriguez's insistence to cast McGowan in the title role.[6] Executives reportedly do not think that she can carry a movie with a budget close to $100 million.[6] Once Universal learned of Rodriguez's decision to cast McGowan they slashed the budget significantly. Rodriguez denies this, saying, "Universal had initially signed on for $60 million, but then when we were done with the script it wound up at closer to $82 million."[6] The filmmaker is currently shopping the project around to other studios in the hopes of getting more money. He has cited the fact that most of the movie takes place in outer space as the reason for the rise in budget, and that "we don’t want the movie to look like the original."[6] The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987 by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. ...
Trivia - Virna Lisi was cast in the title role in Barbarella, but she turned it down and returned to Italy.
- Star Jane Fonda was married to director Roger Vadim during the production and distribution of Barbarella.
- Talitha Pol, a fashion icon of the late 1960s who was married to John Paul Getty, appeared in Barbarella in the uncredited role of a girl smoking a pipe.
- The village name of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was used as the password for Dildano's headquarters
- British electro rapper M.I.A. sings "Barbarella look like she my dead ringer, when i'm dogging on the bonnet of your red honda" in her song "Bamboo Banga".
Virna Lisi Italian Virni Lisi (born in 1937 as Virna Lisa Pieralisi) began her film career as a teenager in 1953. ...
Talitha Getty (née Talitha Dina Pol) (October 18, 1940-July 14, 1971) was an actress, of Dutch parents, who, largely posthumously, became a style icon of the late 1960s. ...
Sir John Paul Getty (September 7, 1932 – April 17, 2003) was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book-collector. ...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 Letters long) is a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales, situated on the Menai Strait close to Menai Bridge and Bangor. ...
For other uses, see MIA. Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam (July 17, 1977), a British vocalist, songwriter, composer, record producer and visual artist, is a Tamil of Jaffna origin. ...
References The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987 by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also - List of films based on French-language comics
This is a list of films based on French-language comics. ...
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