'OK knock it off, I've seen better fights on a light show.'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World
‘Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to violence’
Aside from featuring more punctuation than you generally see in a movie title,
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill distinguishes itself as the first film we’ve reviewed directed by Russ Meyer.
‘He’s got a thing for women’
That might be an understatement.
‘You won’t find it down there Columbus’
The plot is basically what if Thelma and Louise were Go-go dancers,
with a really short temper,
and its melodramatic convolutions would be damn near Shakespearean if it wasn’t so ludicrous.
‘You don’t have to believe it honey, just act it’
and if Shakespeare liked fast cars and big jugs.
'Right now, you are first on my list and I always start at the top.'
The dialogue isn’t what you’d call natural.
‘Like what’s the old man planning for the main course? Us?’
On the other hand it does feature the finest collection of double-entendres this side of Carry on Up the Khyber.
'But let’s take the back door’
Ranging all the way from the obvious,
‘You were a long time coming’
'You're telling me.'
To the super-obvious
‘Breast or thigh darlin''
Like the story, the dialogue and the bust measurements...
'You girls a bunch of nudists or are you just short of clothes?'
The characters only exist in Meyer-land
‘And here’s where our screenplay starts to unfold right now.’
We have a ferociously dominant temptress with a killer karate chop and a rack you could ski down.
A sexually frustrated lesbian with a perplexing accent and a rack you could ski down.
'Now I am going to spin and dry you.'
and an insatiable bisexual with a taste for muscular men and a rack you could ski down.
'Me Jane, you Tarzan'
You may have spotted a theme.
'They let them smoke vote and drive.'
There’s also some men.
'Too much for one man to handle.'
but to be honest the film’s sexual politics can be summed up in one line
‘You’re a beautiful animal and I’m weak’
From this assemblage of pieces you can put together pretty much any sex and violence exploitation film and they’ll all be beyond crap.
‘I think you’re being unfair’
But, exploitation films tend to be made by people who would do something else if they could but lack the skill.
‘Are you trying to say something?’
Meyer’s films are nothing but sex and violence.
'You better believe it.'
but the man knew how to tell those stories the editing is superb, the camerawork is faultless, the acting is...
‘She’s nothing but trouble’
Laughable. Let’s not get carried away; this is still a bad movie.
‘I don’t have to prove anything’
I mean it’s a car film but close up the cars obviously aren’t moving!
But it is entertaining and I know what you’re thinking; I swear I’m not just getting caught up in the...
‘My motor never runs down baby’
'So working up a new routine.'
I’m not. I know it’s stilted badly scripted nonsense.
‘Alright already, I’m hip’
but it carries you along with it
‘Are you nuts?’
I think Faster Pussycat Kill Kill is an example of the most important rule of direction;
film something you want to see.
I think Russ Meyer’s dreams probably looked just like his films and you can see that enthusiasm on the screen.
‘You know you sure have a funny way of getting your kicks’
Being serious-minded and artistic doesn’t automatically convey talent,
cough - Zardoz - cough
you can just easily be dirty minded and trashy.
‘I wanna know what’s going on’
It’s a bad film.
'Maybe you're right.'
but I guess that was a positive review.
'You've got a weird sense of humour.'
That’s probably the end of dark Corners.
'Oh you're cute.'
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