Tanya's island
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tanya's island |
| Original title | Tanya's Island |
| Country of production |
Canada , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 (video), 12 (television) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Sole |
| script | Pierre Brousseau |
| production | Pierre Brousseau |
| music | Jean Musy |
| camera | Mark Irwin |
| cut |
Andrew Henderson , Michael MacLaverty |
| occupation | |
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Tanya's Insel is a curious mixture of erotic, love and fantasy films with Prince discovering Vanity as Tanya.
action
Tanya is a pretty, colored woman who works as a promotional model. In their love life, however, the house blessing hangs pretty crooked. Her white friend Lobo, to whom she is very attached, does not want to know anything more from her, accuses her of only wanting to own and control him. Back at home in her house, Tanya hears a panting sound from upstairs. A little scared and yet curious, she goes upstairs to have a look. Clouds of mist flow into the corridor under the top door. Tanya enters the room behind this door. She ends up in a dream island paradise with a white beach and palm trees. Her wish has become a reality, because she initially believes that there are only her and Lobo on Tanya's island. Only one white horse belongs to both inventories. In this Caribbean paradise she wants to rediscover her love for Lobo, try to seduce him again and give herself to him. This is where her wishes come true: she has wild, passionate sex with him on a rock in the surf. Lobo works as an artist, time and again he paints great apes in the jungle as the epitome of unbridled, natural, virile masculinity. For both young people, this moment is a brief period of absolute happiness.
One day, Lobo decides to go to the other side of the island, as he says he won't find any new motifs for his paintings here. You set up a new, simple camp. When masses of tropical fruits rained down on Tanya in the jungle, she was terrified and assumed that neither of them were all that alone on this island. Lobo doesn't take Tanya very seriously in her fears, one day he even makes the fun of it, to scare her properly. Tanya has had enough of Lobo for now and goes on a discovery tour along the rocky coast with the white horse. In a labyrinth of crevices and caves, she discovers a huge monkey that looks like it has sprung from Lobos paintings. Tanya is scared to death and screams, but soon becomes friends with the reserved giant, whom she calls "Blue" because of his blue eyes. His masculinity and gentleness at the same time almost electrifies her and magically attracts Tanya. Back at Lobo, she doesn't tell him anything about this strange encounter. Instead, she is drawn back to Blue, who still lives in his place. Tanya tries to build a friendship with him.
One day, Blue secretly follows her and is very close to Tanya's and Lobo's camp. It is woken up by weird nocturnal noises. The next morning he only sees the head of the domestic pig Sam, the rest was obviously eaten by Blue. Now Lobo no longer believes Tanya's previously given assurance that one is all alone on the island. Armed with a crossbow, Lobo follows Blue's trail and, like Tanya before, arrives at the rocky cave by the sea. He sees his girlfriend splashing naked in an underground rock pool and talking to Blue. Lobo does not intervene, but climbs back up into the sunlight and returns home. When Tanya returns to the camp hours later, Lobo reacts angrily, aggressively and violently. He begins to get massively jealous of Tanya's secret, Tanya's new boyfriend. The powerful creature seems to him like a human-male rival. Finally, he wants to force Tanya to have sex, when Blue intervenes, who has followed him back to the camp at nightfall. Lobo lets go of Tanya and instead tries to kill Blue with his crossbow. Tanya begins to emancipate herself from this man and follows the wounded monkey despite Lobo's urgent desire to stay.
She swings on the horse and rides off into the night, accompanied by Lobos angry shouting "I don't want you back!" The next morning Tanya bathes in the sea, guarded by Blue. From a distance, Lobo jealously watches the goings-on. In his childish jealousy, Lobo shoots a twin at Blue and lures him into the jungle, where he has already set up a cage trap for the giant monkey. As if from his senses, Lobo rattles against the bamboo bars, angrily and triumphantly savoring his dubious victory. With a heavy bamboo stick he hits Blue's head and injures it. Tanya didn't notice Blue's disappearance when she emerged from the ocean. Lobo thinks she has Tanya to herself again, but Blue makes a loud riot in his prison, so Tanya hears him and runs into the jungle. She is furious when she sees what Lobo has done to Blue. Disappointed with their reaction, Lobo dismantles both of them. Eventually they split up and Tanya frees Blue from his cage. But soon Tanya is locked in the cage by Lobo instead of Blue. Lobo is hoping for the return of the Blues in order to finally defeat them in a man-to-man duel. The crazy Lobo tries to make the monkey extremely angry and therefore careless with a deafening noise. But the giant monkey turns the tables, surprises Lobo from behind, throws him into his own bamboo cane prison and frees Tanya. She was the first to paint over Lobos monkey paintings in the accommodation and turned to Blue with the words: “You don't look like that, Blue!”.
Meanwhile, Lobo becomes more and more paranoid: He has freed himself, put camouflage paint on his face and sneaks around Tanya's camp. Then he kidnaps her and rides away with the girl on the white horse. His goal is again the bamboo cage, where he barricades with Tanya and where Blue naturally follows him immediately. He angrily shakes the bamboo and has to watch as Lobo, like a monkey, stuffs bananas into himself and then brutally rapes Tanya because, he believes, she secretly wants this wild, animal form of sex with a hominid. Only when he has entered her does he let go of Tanya. Then the monkey strikes back and throws unripe coconuts at Lobo from outside. Blue enters the bamboo fortress, locks up Lobo and takes Tanya. She's fed up with both guys now, but the “beast” has tasted the sweet nectar of love from the “beauty” and doesn't want to leave her anymore. Tanya tries to flee, but Blue keeps catching her and demands love. Then Tanyas wakes up bathed in sweat and breathing heavily from her damp (night) dream. She is still in her house. But two scratches on her left breast show that the dream must have been a reality. On a monitor she sees herself as a model in an advertising clip in which a King Kong-like monkey also appears ...
Production note
Tanya's Island was shot almost exclusively in a coastal region of Puerto Rico - only the opening sequence was shot in Toronto , Canada - and had its world premiere in December 1980 in both Canada and the USA. The film was released as a video in Germany on March 23, 1990, and two months later, on September 15, 1990, it had its German television premiere on Tele 5 .
This production, staged with very little effort, a cross between soft sex erotic, jealous drama and beauty-and-the-beast myth, cost around $ 1,400,000 Canadian dollars. Singer Vanity, who immediately before had played a supporting role in the Canadian horror film Monster in the Night Express alongside Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis , was still called DD Winters at the time. The performer of Blue acts exclusively in a monkey costume.
criticism
“An attractive photo model falls into a dream when looking at one of the pictures of her lover, a painter: it finds itself with him on a paradisiacal island in the South Sea and indulges in the idyll until one day it encounters a great ape who pursues it with his affection. Moderate variant of the old 'Beauty and the Beast' theme, which presents the myth with a popular-voyeuristic attitude. "
Web links
- Tanya's Island in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanya's Island. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 29, 2016 .