Originally planning to watch Preston Sturges The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,I decided after getting back home later than I had expected,to instead take a look,at the second movie in auteur film maker Russ Meyer's "Soap Opera" period.
The plot:
Laying in bed wide awake beside her sleeping husband,Angel Boland gets hit by a startling realisation that the spark from her marriage has completely fizzled out.Getting out of bed and ignoring the questions from her husband Burt, (who has only been divorced from his first wife for a short while) and the pleas from Burt's daughter Lana,Angel's drive's off in her car for a night of passion with a construction worker that she caught a glimpse of a few days ago,when skinny dipping.
The next morning:
Returning home feeling fulfilled for the first time in recent memory,Angel announces to Burt that she is going to carry on her "walk on the wild side",due to it fulfilling her needs in a manner that Burt has been unable to achieve for a long while.Surprised by Angel's new found excitement from taking her own route,Burt finds himself seriously considering to take his very own walk on the wild side
View on the film:
Featuring a dad/daughter relationship and male nudity for the first time in any of his titles,co-producer/co-editor/cinematography/directing auteur Russ Meyer tones down the ill-fitting "Happening"/New Age Hippy elements of his last film,to instead create a warped soap- opera,that despite going down some delightful mystical sidetracks, (with the gorgeous Haji being an alluring Sorceress,who temps Burt to go on the wild side) is still held filmy together by Meyer keeping Angel and Burt's crumbling relationship troubles at the centre of the movie.
Along with showing a fine skill in balancing the off-beat Soap-Opera and more Fantasy focused elements of the movie,Meyer and co-editor Richard S. Brummer display a new keen eye for the editing of sharp punch lines,thanks to Meyer and Brummer transforming a number of serious/exposition scenes, (all of which are well written)by using quick edits which allow for the punch lines to catch the audience completely by surprise.
Working with Meyer for the last time, (although,he would reunite with Haji as a production assistant on the 1971 movie Up Your Ally) the screenplay by writer/sound engineer Jack Moran makes sure that their partnership ends with all guns blazing,thanks to Moran matching the cracking,whip smart dialogue, (delivered perfectly by a rugged and very easy on the eye cast) with a strong,episodic Soap-Opera like structure,with Moran taking full advantage of Angel and Burt's new outgoing desire,by having each of the men and women that they go after, be more crazy than the one before them,which leads to this movie being a perfect place to say good morning,and good bye to an amazing partnership.
The plot:
Laying in bed wide awake beside her sleeping husband,Angel Boland gets hit by a startling realisation that the spark from her marriage has completely fizzled out.Getting out of bed and ignoring the questions from her husband Burt, (who has only been divorced from his first wife for a short while) and the pleas from Burt's daughter Lana,Angel's drive's off in her car for a night of passion with a construction worker that she caught a glimpse of a few days ago,when skinny dipping.
The next morning:
Returning home feeling fulfilled for the first time in recent memory,Angel announces to Burt that she is going to carry on her "walk on the wild side",due to it fulfilling her needs in a manner that Burt has been unable to achieve for a long while.Surprised by Angel's new found excitement from taking her own route,Burt finds himself seriously considering to take his very own walk on the wild side
View on the film:
Featuring a dad/daughter relationship and male nudity for the first time in any of his titles,co-producer/co-editor/cinematography/directing auteur Russ Meyer tones down the ill-fitting "Happening"/New Age Hippy elements of his last film,to instead create a warped soap- opera,that despite going down some delightful mystical sidetracks, (with the gorgeous Haji being an alluring Sorceress,who temps Burt to go on the wild side) is still held filmy together by Meyer keeping Angel and Burt's crumbling relationship troubles at the centre of the movie.
Along with showing a fine skill in balancing the off-beat Soap-Opera and more Fantasy focused elements of the movie,Meyer and co-editor Richard S. Brummer display a new keen eye for the editing of sharp punch lines,thanks to Meyer and Brummer transforming a number of serious/exposition scenes, (all of which are well written)by using quick edits which allow for the punch lines to catch the audience completely by surprise.
Working with Meyer for the last time, (although,he would reunite with Haji as a production assistant on the 1971 movie Up Your Ally) the screenplay by writer/sound engineer Jack Moran makes sure that their partnership ends with all guns blazing,thanks to Moran matching the cracking,whip smart dialogue, (delivered perfectly by a rugged and very easy on the eye cast) with a strong,episodic Soap-Opera like structure,with Moran taking full advantage of Angel and Burt's new outgoing desire,by having each of the men and women that they go after, be more crazy than the one before them,which leads to this movie being a perfect place to say good morning,and good bye to an amazing partnership.