I must go to sleep but after the movies I watched this evening, I fear the dreams that might come. The first movie I watched was Echte Kerle. It’s one of the Gay/Straight comedies that came out in Germany in the mid-90’s. Unfortunately Til Schweiger did not star. I love German films, they are so different from Hollywood movies. In Echte Kerle, there was a love scene in which the woman wore high-waisted jeans and a sports bra!!! SEXY!
After Echte Kerle, Lisa told me to put in another movie. “Well, keeping up with the German gay theme, we could watch Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant…”
“Or we could finally watch the end of Zardoz!” interrupted Lisa. As usual, Lisa won and I shoved Zardoz into the DVD player. You may remember we attempted to watch Zardoz a few weeks ago but decided to turn it off because of all the rape imagery. We fast forwarded to where we had stopped and started watching again. I think my favorite scene during this second viewing is when Sean Connery is attacked by the horde of old people. Of course I also loved the part where Sean Connery is running for his life yet found time to indulge in a quick orgy. Lisa kept screaming, “You don’t have time for this Mr Connery, get on with your escape route!”
Watching Zardoz, I realized that I have never seen a movie starring Charlotte Rampling in which she doesn’t bare her boney chest. I think I am going to bump more of her movies to the top of my Netflix queue just to see if there is a movie where she keeps her clothes on. It’s really a shame that Charlotte’s movie, Max mon amour is not on DVD. Here is an exerpt from the Imdb’s plot summary:
Reserved and cool, Margaret (Charlotte Rampling) is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. She takes a lover, a chimpanzee she bought from a zoo and installed in a flat.
The thing is, I can’t imagine this movie is any worse than Zardoz.
Once Zardoz ended, Lisa asked what it could all mean, “It must stand for something, right?”
“I have one word for you Lisa, Scientology.”