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I just found a copy that said uncut I didn't know what I was getting myself into. It didn't really need those scenes though. What was happening to her was horrible to cut that stuff in an effort to titillate kind of undermined it. The eye scene was like wow. I'm surprised the end wasn't similarly graphic. A little less slow motion action would have been nice but overall good.
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bada wrote:
I just found a copy that said uncut I didn't know what I was getting myself into. It didn't really need those scenes though. What was happening to her was horrible to cut that stuff in an effort to titillate kind of undermined it. The eye scene was like wow. I'm surprised the end wasn't similarly graphic. A little less slow motion action would have been nice but overall good.
See, I’m not convinced those inserts are for titillation, really. In marketing terms at the time, of course that’s how they were sold, but I always felt like they made the sex feel way more gross and cold and nasty. The movie is all about deconstructing revenge and the soulless cycle of degradation in violence, and I think those stark inserts hammer that home even more.
This kind of uncomfortable gray area between titillation and disgust, exploitation and condemnation is why I love movies like this so much. There’s nothing else like it.
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Soooo...on another note: Watched Top Secret! last night. Not one of the better ZAZ movies. Too many musical numbers (Yes, I get the Elvis thing) and not enough sight gags.
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"The lesson we took from 'Airplane!' was just fill up 90 minutes with jokes, and you have a movie," reflected David Zucker later. "With 'Top Secret,' it's very funny, but it really isn't a good movie. It really didn't have a plot or real characters or real structure."
Though it was fun seeing Alfred (Michael Gough) and recognizing Jim Carter (Downton Abbey). The backwards scene was really cool.
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bune wrote:
Soooo...on another note: Watched Top Secret! last night. Not one of the better ZAZ movies. Too many musical numbers (Yes, I get the Elvis thing) and not enough sight gags.
Quote:
"The lesson we took from 'Airplane!' was just fill up 90 minutes with jokes, and you have a movie," reflected David Zucker later. "With 'Top Secret,' it's very funny, but it really isn't a good movie. It really didn't have a plot or real characters or real structure."
Though it was fun seeing Alfred (Michael Gough) and recognizing Jim Carter (Downton Abbey). The backwards scene was really cool.
This is one of my favourite movies of all time!
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It didn't really need those scenes though. What was happening to her was horrible to cut that stuff in an effort to titillate kind of undermined it. The eye scene was like wow. I'm surprised the end wasn't similarly graphic. A little less slow motion action would have been nice but overall good.