Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Things I Learned About/From Doris Wishman by watching "Bad Girls Go To Hell" (1965)

  1. Bad girls go to hell.
  2. There are no bad girls in "Bad Girls Go To Hell".
  3. To make up for it, all men are evil, belt-wielding rapists. Who probably don't go to hell. And they are waiting for you womenfolk about two steps outside of your front door.
  4. Most women run around their apartments in their undies all day. If they want to do some cleaning, they throw over a negligee.
  5. The best way to hide the lack of quality in your post-dubbing is to film your actors' backs as much as possible.
  6. If you can't film a back, try to find a family of ducks to film while the dubbing actors talk. Or are these talking ducks?
  7. All Lesbians SHOUT REALLY REALLY LOUD!
  8. The thing that represents New York best can be found when you (as a New Yorker director) point your camera directly at the sky.
  9. If the sky isn't available, there's always walking feet. Oh glorious, glorious feet!
  10. On planet Wishman, time and space don't work the same way they do on our planet. Thankfully, there's the post-dubbed dialogue to oh so subtly tell us about any changes.
  11. Most cops enter their mother's apartment through the walk-in closet. (Possibly 10b.)
  12. After this film's ending, Groundhog Day can just go home.
  13. I like planet Wishman.

 

6 comments:

Pauline said...

Oh for crying:

All Lesbians SHOUT REALLY REALLY LOUD!

As far as I know, that is true of all my bitches.

houseinrlyeh aka Denis said...

I imagine your comment coming from somewhere in the off while the camera (of life!) shows a pair of shoes.

Pauline said...

I don't generally jump on these things right away, but that is not what you're imagining.

Nor I, by the way.

houseinrlyeh aka Denis said...

Nobody ever is.

There's absolutely no way to get away from shoes and feet when it comes to Doris W.

Anarchivist said...

OMG, have you seen Nude on the Moon?

houseinrlyeh aka Denis said...

No, I haven't, fortunately or un. I have seen A Night to Dismember, though, which makes up for every film I haven't seen.