Eric SamulskiKangaroos make it sexy
January 28th 2007 22:31
Duke & Leon in Bloodspit
"Where's Sonny, Skip?"
I was working on this project and asked legend film-maker Ted V. Mikels for a quote. I wanted to know why women’s prison films are so popular.
He sent me this;
Basically, women”gathered” without men involved seems to intrigue. A little bit of “female” relationships, and a slight touch of violence does attract, for whatever Freudian reasons.
I believe, as do many, that Mikels come up with the “Charlies Angel” crime-fighting concept first. I’ve seen, The Doll Squad (1974) and it’s up there well on top as a cinematic benchmark. Dare I say, turning point. Well, it was for me anyway.
I guess the point of all this comes back to – sexy vs smutty.
Or how we, as low-budget film-makers can incorporate female characters without being gratuitous.
I think a man is well place in a role, say as a sniper. Lonely figure dressed in black, a well placed single shot to the head. Maybe a body shot at long distance.
A female character I think is far more comfortable swinging a firearm left to right with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of rounds.
Bang, bang, bang.
Thankyou…
I think that’s sexy. If she was wearing a bikini maybe some would see that as smutty. If she had little teddy bears on her bikini and she was yelling something like;
“Take that, Mister, Mummy’s handing out treats…”
I think that would make it interesting.
Of course few in Australian film-making would have the guts to shoot a scene like that. The cry-babies would be swooning, hands on heads faking faints at the thought.
“Boo-hoo where’s the sophistication?”
Maybe if she was holding a kangaroo you’d get it by.
Until next time and happy film-making.
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