THERON.jpg' alt='Cult Sci Fi Movies The Naughty List ' title='Cult Sci Fi Movies The Naughty List ' />Barbarella film Wikipedia. This article is about the 1. For other uses, see Barbarella. Before the cast comes back to Camp Firewood for Wet Hot American Summer 10 Years Later, find out what theyve all been up to. Yahoo Lifestyle is your source for style, beauty, and wellness, including health, inspiring stories, and the latest fashion trends. Barbarella is a 1. Roger Vadim based on the French comic Barbarella. The film stars Jane Fonda as Barbarella, a representative of the United Earth government in the 4. Durand Durand whose positronic ray could end humanity. Producer Dino De Laurentiis bought the rights to adapt Barbarella into a film. Vadim took the role as director as he had been a fan of comics and wanted to adapt one to film. Vadim attempted to cast several actors in the title role, including Virna Lisi, Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren before casting his then wife, Jane Fonda. 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Contemporary film critics praised the films visuals and cinematography, but found the films storyline to be weak after the first few scenes. Since its release, several attempts at sequels, remakes and other adaptations have been planned but none have entered production. In an unspecified future, Barbarella is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieve Doctor Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti region. Durand Durand is the inventor of the Positronic Ray, a weapon that Earth leaders fear will fall into the wrong hands. Barbarella crashes on the 1. Tau Ceti and is knocked unconscious by two girls. The two take Barbarella into the wreckage of a spaceship where she is tied up as several dolls which have razor sharp teeth emerge to attack Barbarella. She is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman, who patrols the ice looking for errant children. Hand reveals that Durand Durand is in the city of Sogo. Barbarella shows her appreciation by having sex with him in the old fashioned way that has long been replaced on Earth by exaltation transference pills. Barbarella leaves the planet and accidentally crashes into a labyrinth inhabited by outcasts from Sogo. She is found by a blind angel named Pygar who has lost the will to fly. Pygar introduces her to Professor Ping, who offers to repair her ship. Pygar flies Barbarella to Sogo after his will to fly is restored by Barbarella after the two have sex in the old fashioned way. On arriving, Pygar and Barbarella are captured by Sogos Black Queen and her concierge. The concierge explains about the Matmos, living energy in liquid form that Sogo is used as an energy source and powered by evil thoughts. Pygar is put into a mock crucifixion, while Barbarella is placed in a cage where she is about to be attacked by hundreds of birds. She is rescued by Dildano, the head of the local underground revolutionaries who joins in her pursuit to find Durand Durand. Dildano offers her an invisible key to a chamber of dreams where the Queen sleeps, and sends her back into Sogo. Barbarella is promptly recaptured by the concierge, He places Barbarella in a device called the Excessive Pleasure machine which induces fatal sexual pleasure. Barbarella manages to outlast the machine which causes it blow its fuses. Shocked at its destruction, The concierge is revealed to be Durand Durand who has aged 3. Matmos. He explains his desire to become the new leader of Sogo and overthrow the Black Queen, which requires his Positronic Ray and access to the chamber of dreams. Durand Durand takes Barbarella to the chamber and locks her inside with the invisible key. Inside, Barbarella meets the Queen who states that if two people are in the chamber, the Matmos will devour them. Meanwhile, Durand Durand assumes control of Sogo while Dildano and his rebels begin their attack on Sogo. The Black Queen retaliates by releasing the Matmos which destroys Sogo. Protected by what the Black Queen refers to as Barbarellas innocence, they escape the Matmos and find Pygar who clutches both Barbarella and the Black Queen in his arms and flies off with them. When asked by Barbarella why he saved the Tyrant after everything she had done to him, Pygar responds, An angel has no memory. Fonda as Barbarella in the Excessive Pleasure Machine. ProductioneditDevelopmenteditDino De Laurentiis bought the rights to Barbarella. The comic had previously been released to a scandal as unlike previous adult oriented comics, it came to prominence after being published by the major Belgian French publisher Eric Losfield in his own Editions Le Terrain Vague. De Laurentiis connected with Frances Marianne Productions and secured a distribution deal in the United States with Paramount. To cover the costs of the film, De Laurentiis also planned to shoot a less expensive feature, Danger Diabolik, to help cover the costs. In 1. 96. 6, Roger Vadim spoke about admiration for comics, specifically Peanuts, stating that he liked the wild humor and impossible exaggeration of comic strips and that he wanted to do something in that style myself in my next film, Barbarella. Vadim saw the film as a chance to depict a new futuristic morality. Barbarella has not guilt about her body. I want to make something beautiful out of eroticism. His wife, actress Jane Fonda, noted that Vadim was a fan of science fiction, Vadim commented on the genre, opining that In science fiction, technology is everything. The characters are so boringthey have no psychology. I want to do this film as though I had arrived on a strange planet with my camera directly on my shoulderas though I was a reporter doing a newsreel. After Terry Southern had finished writing Peter Sellers lines for Casino Royale, he flew to Paris to meet Vadim and Fonda. Southern had known Vadim previously from the time he spent in Paris in the early 1. Southern was interested in writing for the film as writing a science fiction comedy based on a comic book would be a new challenge for him. Southern enjoyed writing the script, specifically the opening strip tease and the scenes involving tiny robotic toys that pursue Barbarella to bite her. Southern felt the film was his Candy and enjoyed working with Vadim and Fonda but found De Laurentiis had caused problems as Southern found that he only wanted to make a cheap film and not a good one. Southern later claimed Vadim wasnt particularly interested in the script, but he was a lot of fun, with a discerning eye for the erotic, grotesque, and the absurd. And Jane Fonda was super in all regards. Southern was surprised to see his screenplay credit not just himself, but Vadim and several Italian screenwriters. The credited screenwriters included Claude Brule, Vittorio Bonicelli, Clement Biddle Wood, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates and Jean Claude Forest. Watch Day & Night Online on this page. Charles B. Griffith later stated that he had worked on the script uncredited, explaining that the production team hired fourteen other writers after Southern before they got to me. I didnt get credit because I was the last one. Griffith noted that he rewrote about a quarter of the film that was shot, then reshot, and I added the concept that there had been thousands of years since violence existed, so that Barbarella was very clumsy all through the picture. She shoots herself in the foot and everything. It was pretty ludicrous. The stuff with Claude Dauphin and the suicide room were also part of my contribution to the film. Preproductionedit. Director of Barbarella, Roger Vadim in 1. Several actresses were approached before Jane Fonda was cast as Barbarella. De Laurentiis first choice was Virna Lisi. The second was Brigitte Bardot, who was not interested in playing any sexualized roles. The third choice was Sophia Loren, who turned down the offer as she was pregnant and felt that she would not fit the role. Fonda was unsure of the film, but was convinced by Vadim who explained to her that science fiction was a rapidly evolving genre. Prior to filming Barbarella, Fonda had been the subject of two highly publicized sex scandals, the first in 1.