Flesh Gordon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Flesh Gordon |
| Original title | Flesh Gordon |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Michael Benveniste , Howard Ziehm |
| script | Michael Benveniste |
| production |
Walter R. Cichy , Bill Osco , Howard Ziehm |
| music | Ralph Ferraro |
| camera | Howard Ziehm |
| cut | Abbas Amin |
| occupation | |
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Flesh Gordon is a sex film parody of the 1974 film Flash Gordon (1936). Directed by Howard Ziehm and Michael Benveniste .
action
The earth is threatened by sex rays from space. Ice hockey player Flesh Gordon is flying home from an international game to the USA to help his father. The sex rays set in suddenly and transform the occupants of the little machine into a horde of sex-obsessed people. But Flesh manages to save himself and his girlfriend Dale Ardor from the crashing machine. You come across Dr. Flexi Jerkoff, a friend of Flesh's father. He designed a spaceship with which they want to find the reason for the radiation.
After a turbulent journey through space, they have to make an emergency landing on the planet Porno, where they are captured by the impotent Emperor Emperor Wang. He is the reason for the sex rays that haunt the earth. While Dr. Flexi Jerkoff is supposed to work for the Emperor, Dale is forced to marry the Emperor. Meanwhile, Flesh is kidnapped by Queen Klitoria, who wants to train him to become a lust slave. However, Jerkoff manages to free Flesh. The queen regrets what she has done and gives them both her power warts. Flesh and Jerkoff manage to free Dale just in time, but they are separated on their escape. Dale ends up with a lesbian tribe of Amazonians who want to make her one of their own. Jerkoff and Flesh, in turn, manage to free them and meet the homosexual Prince Precious, the rightful heir to porn.
Together they decide to destroy the sex lamp with the power warts, but Precious troops were infiltrated. In a spaceship, one of Wang's loyal followers steals one of the power warts and brings it to his emperor. Wang drops the spaceship into a mouth, where it explodes. After a short pause, however, you can see that Flesh, Jerkoff, Dale and the Prince jumped off in time. They are put in a huge toilet and flushed, but survive. They storm the throne room to regain the power wart, but it is stuck in the vagina of one of the girls from Wang's entourage. Wang uses the general confusion to send his rape robots, which Flesh is able to direct on him. Wang escapes and conjures up the "monster", a huge monster. After the heroes pull the power wart out of the woman, Dale is kidnapped by the monster. With a spaceship they get close to the monster and Jerkoff can fire a shot. Dale escapes and the monster falls on Wang and the ray cannon. Prince Precious is now back in control of porn and the danger to earth has been averted. Flesh, Dale and Jerkoff make their way back to Earth.
background
The film comes from the first wave of major pornographic films in the early 1970s that were also shown in theaters. The film was budgeted for $ 500,000 by its standards. However, there were more and more problems on the set. It turned out that one of the actresses in the film was a minor . The police therefore confiscated some of the footage. In addition, the policy has meanwhile spoken out against porn films and so the film was rewritten as sex dud. The few hardcore sequences that had already been shot were never released, partly because some reels had become unusable as a result of the demonstration during the process. Therefore, only the version with soft sex scenes that has been trimmed to an R rating is common .
A few well-known Hollywood names participated in the film, but were not named. For example the makeup artist Rick Baker . The stop-motion artist Jim Danforth was immortalized in the credits under a pseudonym .
Stylistic devices
In terms of content, the film is based on the comic series Flash Gordon and optically also took over some elements, in some cases entire sequences of the film series of the same name, from the 1930s, but with a strong reference to porn. The names are also slight deviations from the original. For example, Zarkov became Jerkoff (English for "jerk one off"). A disclaimer at the beginning, according to which the film pays homage to the superheroes of the 1930s, should prevent a legal dispute with the rights holders of Flash Gordon .
publication
In Germany, a version cut to 85 minutes was released on video that contained almost no sex scenes. Only Marketing Film restored the film to its original 89 minutes (without credits). An uncut version of the film was also released in the UK in 2001.
- Premieres
- USA: July 30, 1974
- Germany: March 23, 1975
continuation
1989 appeared Flesh Gordon - Shame of the Galaxy , also directed by Howard Ziehm , who (15 years later), told a new story about the hero Flesh Gordon.
criticism
Flesh Gordon was mostly dismissed as slapstick. The film (and its subsequent sequel) is also considered a cult work among science fiction and trash film fans.
"The science fiction spectacle, based on Alex Raymond's comic strip classic 'Flash Gordon', is presented as a parody of horror, sex and other consumer entertainment, but remains meaningless in its satirizing allusions and is content with slapstick instead."
“From today's perspective, this parody of sex and science fiction films seems rather silly, especially since the trick techniques look pretty trashy. But the old series from the 30s was supposed to be made fun of, in which the spaceships were sometimes visibly pulled through the picture on twine and the cult appeal of an 'attack by the killer tomatoes' achieved 'Flesh Gordon' anyway. "
Web links
- Flesh Gordon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Critique of the film at pornoklassiker.de
- Comparison of the cut versions TV Kabel 1 - DVD by Flesh Gordon at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolf-Dieter Roth: "Permit, His horniness King Hodes, the inventor of the sex bomb". In: Telepolis . January 20, 2005, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ^ Mark Deming: Review. All Movie Guide , accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Heinz Klett: Review. Buio-Omega.de, accessed on February 24, 2011 .
- ^ A b c Kevin O'Reilly: Review. homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk, January 16, 2003, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Flesh Gordon in the online film database
- ↑ Flesh Gordon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed February 24, 2011 .