| 词条 | Supervixens |
| 释义 |
| name = Supervixens | image = Supervixensposter.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Russ Meyer | producer = Russ Meyer | writer = Russ Meyer | starring = Charles Pitt Charles Napier Uschi Digard Shari Eubank Christy Hartburg Haji Colleen Brennan | music = William Loose | cinematography = Russ Meyer | editing = Russ Meyer | studio = September 19 | distributor = RM Films International | released = {{Film date|1975|4|2|Dallas}} | runtime = 106 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $100,000 | gross = $17 million[1] }} Supervixens is a 1975 American sexploitation film directed by American filmmaker Russ Meyer.[2] The cast features Meyer regulars Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, and Haji. The film also features Shari Eubank (in a dual role) in one of her only two film roles ever and Christy Hartburg in her only film role ever. PlotGas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of girls, all of whom have the word "Super" in their given names. In the beginning, he is married to the hypersexual, demanding, and jealous SuperAngel (Shari Eubank), who constantly harasses him at work. She orders him home at once when she calls Clint and overhears a female customer, SuperLorna (Christy Hartburg), hitting on him at work. Clint finds SuperAngel's constant accusations and arguing a turn-off and, back at home, they fight after he rejects her aggressive advances. A neighbor calls the police as Clint leaves for a local bar, where the bartender is the very scantily clad SuperHaji (Haji). Meanwhile, SuperAngel seduces Harry Sledge (Charles Napier), the cop who responded to the police call. He is impotent and unable to perform. She repeatedly taunts and insults him over this, which finally results in him killing her by stomping her brutally in a bathtub, then throwing a radio in the water which was plugged into the wall socket. Sledge burns down the house, then tries to pin the murder on Clint. Clint claims being in the pub all night, but SuperHaji has her revenge on him (for insulting her breast size earlier) by refusing to confirm his alibi. Clint is then forced to flee. In his rush to escape, Clint hitchhikes a ride from a boy (John LaZar) and his girlfriend SuperCherry (Colleen Brennan). During the drive, SuperCherry comes on to him and puts his hand over her breast, but then pulls it back. She then tries to give him a handjob over his pants, but he continues to resist her advances. The driver takes offense to Clint rejecting his girlfriend, but she says he probably just wants a closer contact. She again attempts and fails to seduce him and he asks the driver to let him get out. The driver follows him out and beats and robs him. Clint is found by an old farmer who takes him to his farm to heal from his injuries and Clint agrees to work for the farmer for a week to repay him. The farmer has a younger Austrian mail-order bride, SuperSoul (Uschi Digard), who is hypersexual. After energetically satisfying her husband, she comes knocking on Clint's door at night. She immediately pushes him into his bed where she proceeds to mount and rape him, until he manages to overpower her. However, she does the same the following day and this time overpowering him after jumping him from behind in the barn. Looking for SuperSoul, the farmer finds them in the barn, then chases Clint away and punches SuperSoul. Fleeing from the farm, Clint meets a motel owner and his deaf daughter, SuperEula (Deborah McGuire), who convinces him to take a ride with her in her dune buggy to have sex in the desert. They are caught by her father and chased out of town. Clint eventually meets up with SuperVixen (also played by Shari Eubank) at Supervixen's Oasis, a roadside diner. SuperVixen is (inexplicably) a friendly and giving reincarnation of SuperAngel, whose ghost now appears nude between scenes to comment on the plot from atop a bedspring balanced on a mesa. Clint and SuperVixen fall in love and are inseparable, although their common nemesis, Harry Sledge, arrives on the scene and plots ending the lives of the now happy couple. Cast
ProductionDevelopmentMeyer's previous two films had failed at the box office - The Seven Minutes (1971) was a straight drama about censorship, done for 20th Century Fox, and Blacksnake (1973) was a blaxploitation film. He originally intended to follow this with Foxy starring his then-wife Edy Williams but the marriage ended and "I just couldn't picture myself making twenty films starring Edy Williams".[3] He was also worried about the Supreme Court decision against pornography..[3] "Those years were very confusing to me," said Meyer. "But instead of rushing off and throwing myself out the window, I was able to psychoanalyze myself and discern what was best for me. I looked myself square in the face and realized I couldn't do everything."[4] Meyer decided to return to the parody sex comedies which had made his reputation so he made what he described as a "sort of sequel to his 1968 hit Vixen.[4] "I'm back to big bosums, square jaws, lotsa action and the most sensational sex you ever saw," he said. "I'm back to what I do best - erotic, comedic sex, sex, sex - and I'll never stray again."[5] "I don't want to do too much yakking," he said. "If there was too much plot, too much dialogue, the story would get in the way of the action. I want a film like an Al Capp cartoon where you know right off wh's good and who's bad."[4] "I'm gonna really deliver on this film." Censors were cracking down on sexually explicit films at the time but Meyer said, "I'll do the things I've always done. I'll do everything I can to outwit them. I'll supersaturate it with outrageous bosums."[6] "There's a new chick every ten minutes," said Meyer. "And each chick is more outrageously constructed than the next."[5] At one stage Meyer was reportedly making the film for American International Pictures.[4] Meyer said he planned to shoot the film in R-rated and X-rated versions. He would release the R version, then later release a more explicit X rated version. However the film would not include hard core sex. "I don't criticise hard core," he said. "I just don't dig it."[4] ScriptingMeyer said the film "was a little bit autobiographical" but also which "borrowed liberally from a number of people I knew".[13] He said he was also influenced by the stories of Horatio Alger. "They were always about a young man who was totally good, and he would always set out to gain his fortune and he would always come up against terrible people," said Meyer. "They did everything they could to do him in, but he fought fair, you know, and he always survived and succeeded in the end. So, that's just one facet of the thing."[13] Meyer flew to the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii in September 1973 and wrote the script. It was the first screenplay he wrote entirely by himself and he did the first draft in eight days. Meyer says he rewrote it nine times, with input of the actors. "I think actors contribute to the comfort of words because it's one thing to sit in a little green room somewhere and write dialogue, but when you hear actors speaking it, it doesn't necessarily flow as well as it might," said Meyer.[13] The two main female characters in the film were Superangel and Supervixen. "Superangel, she's totally bad but beautiful," said Meyer. "Supervixen, she's totally good. They're bookends. I like bookend constructions."[13] "I set out to make a picture that I thought might compete favorably with today's market in keeping with what I had done heretofore," he added. "And you know, crowded on one side by hardcore films and on the other side by major product that is very explicit. Heretofore, always, I had one super female in the film. This time, I said I was going to have seven. And we'd bring one in every reel, like a new linebacker. And I think it works, it really works. You don't have time to grow tired of the looks or the actions of one girl, for example."[13] Meyer used names of characters from his previous films, "except the girls are all called “Super” and they play it straight."[13] Meyer said Supervixen wearing white was a tribute to The Postman Always Rings Twice. "She's good, pure."[13] He wanted to hint that Superangel maybe did not die in the bathtub but wound up reincarnated: Guiding the destinies of three people: terrible, nasty, dirty, nogood Harry Sledge, policeman, former green beret, redneck, opinionated, a bum lay, sexually sick, very physical, very muscular; and Clint, clean, slim, obviously a stud but not in a pushy, forward kind of way, totally good; and Supervixen, voluptuous, pure, good, totally giving, self-sacrificing.[13] CastingThe cast included Charles Napier, who had appeared in a number of Meyer films but quit acting to become a journalist for a trucking magazine. Meyer brought him out of retirement to do the film.[7] There were a number of other actors who had appeared in earlier Meyer films like John LaZar, O’Luke, Stu Lancaster, and Uschi Digard.[13] ShootingIn March 1974, scenes were shot at the Crest Motel and the Sultan's Den in Blythe, California, before the crew finished filming in Quartzsite, Arizona. A dune buggy scene was filmed in the Quartzsite area the past month.[8] The film featured a murder scene which was the most violent yet depicted in a Meyer film. "My films have to please me, to entertain me, and I really dig violence," said Meyer. "I think it's very entertaining. Of course, I like to involve sex with it - sex with gusto - that's my style."[5] The official budget was $400,000 but Meyer said he deliberately inflated this figure.[9] ReceptionBox OfficeThe film was Meyer's biggest commercial success since Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, making $8.2 million during its initial theatrical run.[4] "It's wonderful to come back and find that my kind of voluptuous, superbosumy LA Rams-Chicago Bears scrimmage kind of put on sex is perfectly acceptable to the mainstream," he said. "People want to be amused, entertained and that's what I'm giving 'em."[5] Meyer called it "a very good film" although "people kept asking, "Why did you have to have that bathtub murder," when really the success of the film was the bathtub scene, since there was so little sex in the picture. After a tour of Ivy League colleges and after showing it in Europe, it was clear to me that in the two weeks before its national release I had to interject some more sex. And I did, fortunately. Otherwise I don't think it would have performed as well as it did. But it wouldn't have worked as an R. The audience smells that. You lift a whole sequence out and they won't come."[10] Meyer also said later the thought "the film wouldn't have had the success it had" without Napier "in spite of the big books and seven girls. Napier, I think, has a quality that few actors possess: Wallace Beery, Borgnine, Alan Hale. There can be just a thin edge separating evil and humor and they work both sides of that line." [11]Censored VersionsThe British version of the film cut a moment where Napier stomped on a woman after killing her in a bath.[12] The R-rated version removed the bathub murder. "I wouldn't do it again," said Meyer.[10] After the film came out Meyer said "I plan to stick to what I know works and make one X picture after the next and be even more outrageous with sex and keep pushing the boundaries further and further."[5] Critical receptionVincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film "looks sort of ritualistic, sort of perfunctory, made up of actions whose original meaning and purpose have been forgotten ... 'Supervixens' is a curio for film buffs."[13] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one star out of four and wrote that "Meyer has lost the sense of humor that occasionally made his films enjoyable. The humor has been replaced with repulsive amounts of violence."[14] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said Meyer explored "as never before to such an extent the dark underside of his erotic myths. It's 'Supervixens,' not 'The Day of the Locust,' that's genuinely apocalyptic."[15]Cultural referencesAs a groundbreaker cultural revolutionaire, Meyer was ever watchful for adding sly remarks about American Society. Especially insightful are these:
ReceptionEdy Williams, Myer's ex-wife, later sued unsuccessfully for a portion of the film's profits.[16]See also
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldwideboxoffice.com/movie.cgi?title=Supervixens&year=1975|publisher=Worldwide Box Office|title=Supervixens, Worldwide Box Office|accessdate=January 22, 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91984/Super-Vixens/|title=Supervixens|work=Turner Classic Movies|accessdate=March 9, 2016}} 3. ^A Dirty Deal?: Pornography Ruling Causing Confusion and Chaos, Many Traditional Publishers and Filmmakers SayBy EARL C. GOTTSCHALK JR. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wall Street Journal 16 July 1973: 28. 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 Russ Meyer, Almost An American Institution: Russ Meyer, Almost an American Institution By Kenneth Turan. The Washington Post 9 Nov 1976: B1. 5. ^1 2 3 4 Meyer: Up to his old chicks again Preston, Marilynn. Chicago Tribune 27 Apr 1975: e16. 6. ^Censoring the Cinema: 'Obscene' Is Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Obscenity and the Court By Tom Shales. The Washington Post 3 Mar 1974: E1. 7. ^Charles Napier: 'We're Outcasts, but We're You': Best of the BadLos Angeles Times 5 Feb 1978: m41. 8. ^{{cite news|title=Film crew here|work=Palo Verde Valley Times|date=1974-03-28|location=Blythe, California}} 9. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web |url= https://brightlightsfilm.com/wp-content/cache/all/im-horatio-alger-russ-meyer-supervixens/#.W_4DYSdRfOQ |website= Bright Lights Film Journal |title= “Not That I’m Horatio Alger”: Russ Meyer on The Supervixens |first=Gary |last= Morris |date=July 1, 2000}} 10. ^1 2 Russ Meyer: Ten Years After the 'Beyond' Ebert, Roger. Film Comment; New York Vol. 16, Iss. 4, (Jul/Aug 1980): 43-48,80. 11. ^{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/RESearch10IncrediblyStrangeFilmsStarbrite/page/n79|title=Incredibly Strange Films|publisher=Starbrite|date=1986|page=82}} 12. ^Outrageous exploits of an incorrigible chest nutThe Guardian 18 Dec 1982: 7. 13. ^Canby, Vincent (August 9, 1975). The New York Times. 8. 14. ^Siskel, Gene (May 2, 1975). "'Supervixens' isn't, the porn's forlorn". Chicago Tribune. Section 3, p. 3. 15. ^Thomas, Kevin (May 14, 1975). "Violence Bared in 'Supervixens'". Part IV, p. 14. 16. ^Actress Denied Share of X-Rated Movie's ProfitsLos Angeles Times 6 Nov 1975: b20. External links
13 : 1975 films|1970s action thriller films|1970s sex comedy films|American action thriller films|American films|American sex comedy films|American sexploitation films|English-language films|Films directed by Russ Meyer|Films shot in Arizona|Films shot in California|Films shot in New Mexico|Screenplays by Russ Meyer |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。