propose a brief introduction, held on 12/6/2010 back in Babylon at in the context of the film series "The Friends of the oblique film" Full Exposure to / Cewek jagoan Kembali (Indonesia, 1981) by Danu Umbara.
Many thanks to Philip and Jürgen for the invitation. Outset that said, I know the film we'll see in common, not yet. It was not possible, despite some efforts, a DVD or VHS version of Lethal Angels fight back raise, either in the Berlin program, video stores, even the internet. This does also that they are equal to get to see a true rarity. Here, then, only some preliminary observations of a more general nature, first to kinogeografischen aspects, then to the genre, with which we get to do it today.
The shows tonight, as already some other events of the Friends of the unusual film that the station cinemas in Germany - and elsewhere - at least as "world cinema" were. That was to be seen not only American and European genre fare, but that a lot of films have been from other cultures. Especially today, when you have to be happy if every few years at least, the new film is replaced by Wong Kar-Wai's a regular theatrical release, pay it, to remember that until were part of German cinema in the eighties, Japanese yakuza thriller and Pinku Eigas or martial arts-thriller from Hong Kong take for granted. Or Mexican horror films, which had already been here a number of dedicated, or even Southeast Asian jungle exploitation, as we will get to know today.
course, you will hardly be able to say that such films provide an authentic picture of their country of origin. And of course the German dubbing cares little for most cultural nuances, the title of a martial arts movie ever and "The yellow devil with the Super Strike. But it remains worth considering that in the seventies and eighties in the cinema much more often than today could see people who looked differently than you do, or places that looked different from their own environment. I think the movie lost some if it blocks all the continents in Film Festival ghettos.
is The Southeast Asian cinema, this history of defiance, for the European film history is still largely terra incognita. And that just because much of the classic cinema of the Philippines, Thailand or Indonesia just because of the poor, not to say non-existent archive situation in these countries, are lost forever. That the movie is a heritage worth preserving, had in this country only got around, when the first decades of film history were already thinned out badly. In Southeast Asia, the knowledge is still not arrived, hardly a year passes in which not just any camp with historically valuable copies of "accidentally" burns, not to say, is being vandalized, so that the respective production company can sell the property. It would not surprise me if the original version of the film we see today is already irretrievably lost.
But even if we no longer can see too much of it, possessed Indonesia, like its neighboring countries, from the sixties to the eighties was a productive and diverse film industry. In the nineties came all the film industries of Southeast Asia into a serious crisis, from which up to now not fully recovered. Indonesia has made it the worst of all, in 2000 were produced in the country with the world's fourth largest population of only six feature films. Only in the last three or four years, the situation has improved somewhat again. A glimmer of hope, especially in the context of this series is, for example, the fact that Brian Yuzna, who had previously produced first in the U.S., then in Spain great horror films and directed, has been established in Indonesia. His first directorial effort in Indonesia, the monster movie Amphibious 3D This year has been completed.
Back to this evening. What is now a fatal Angels Strike Back about? As the title suggests, is a sequel. As I said it was impossible to sight the film itself, two other films directed by Danu Umbara I can muster, however. One of them is the predecessor with the title Five Deadly Angels . In this first film five young women struggling against a horde of bad guys. There is more about the plot on which it will probably arrive still less than in other films of this series, not to actually report. An extremely crude, but extremely amusing Strip is the alternate in which car chases, martial arts sequences, musical interludes, slapstick humor and romantic scenes almost every minute. Another film called Umbara Jungle Virgin Force is even wilder. Also there is about a group of fighting women, but to develop it all, even supernatural forces and their opponents sometimes even tear the entrails with their bare hands to the heavens.
About the successor will find little information. An important difference is certainly that remained of the five angels of the first film only three left. As in previous starts the film as a revenge story, but it is hoped that it is a lot more than just another rape / revenge film. The actresses that they will get to see the same, by the way big stars in Indonesia, they have won countless awards and usually play at high profile television and film productions. This has until now that, as if dorish Wishman the main role of their masterpiece Deadly breasts not occupied with Chesty Morgan, but with Faye Dunaway. Even the shows that genre boundaries can not simply transferred from one continent to another. is
as a model for the deadly angel movies again and again the television series Charlie's Angels on German Three Charlie's Angels called . Certainly the producers wanted to profit from the popularity of this series, which is evident from the title. It seems to me that other influences are equally important. Because basically a lurid, rough-legged flicks like "Five Deadly Angels" with the slick, ironic and utterly adult Charlie's Angels has little to do. In general was the concrete action film in American cinema, apart from exceptional productions such as the Cleopatra Jones films, not until the nineties set in a masculine hand, has really changed is that's at least my impression, first with Milla Jovovich and Angelina Jolie. In contrast, Asian Cinema, especially in movies from Japan and Hong Kong, it has been since the early seventies for granted that women are good for action heroes. In Japan, supposed to think for example of the film series about Lady Snowblood and Knastinsassin Sasori, but also to this country, less famous Alley Cat Rock films in Hong Kong on numerous stylish spanking movies, is here only recall the Shaw Brothers Classics Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan .
such films are also interesting because they make little fuss about the sex of their heroines. No pocket-feminism, but also do not hold back. Women from sharing and plug in, just like the men, without the complex would be plausible. This alone is worth a lot, I think. The film we are seeing today is indeed unlikely to be on the same technical and artistic level as the predecessor of Hong Kong and Japan, but as I have known Mr. Umbara, he will make up the missing Büdget with the sheer lunacy of his production with ease.
And so I want to stop the event not longer. So now the deadly angel, so I hope above all that they sing in this movie again. I wish us all a good projection. Sung
the deadly angels then not, a beautiful Film's it anyway. And there is a song from the first part of it on Youtube:
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