Whatever happened to the femme fatale? Sultry, smouldering temptresses lit up cinema golden age: what @ now?
October 82009
Whatever happened to the femme fatale?
Sultry, smouldering temptresses lit up the screen in cinema’s golden age – but where are they now?
Sheila Johnston pays tribute to the femme fatale
Rita Hayworth in ‘Gilda’ (1946), a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor, in which Hayworth was a legendary ultimate femme fatale.
They came prowling out of the shadows, wreathed in smoke, wisecracks and stolen mink; women no better than they should be, with only trouble in mind.
They never needed to diet, displayed but a flickering interest in men for money, power and meaningless sex, and were more likely to accessorise with a gun than a Chihuahua.
March saw a monster celebration of the femme fatale in all her guises. Screened as part of the Birds Eye View women’s film festival, some 30 movies commemorated the vamp in silent cinema – the glorious likes of Louise Brooks and Theda Bara – and in later films up to today.
A parallel event, at the BFI Mediatheque at QUAD, in Derby, highlights wicked ladies in British film and television in archive material that will be available to view indefinitely.
The femme fatale had her greatest moment in the film noir of the Forties: it’s claimed that she signified male fears of women liberated by their part in the war.
The recent revival, via the Kill Bill & Charlie’s Angels franchises, & a few odd vampiress movies, seems now to have faded?
Will Power Girl comics launch a new wave of lethal ladies onto the screen?
In kinda contrast:-
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Airkltf4wESd9K3TitBk10Tsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091002041235AAa3keK
Almost ..
.. crackin’ da femme fatale code, eh?
LOL
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Dunno dude ..
That’s Y I’m asking you ..
Nurse: I think vee vill need the thumbscrews on this one ..
mua-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!
Pp
I’ve seen a load of Bullwinkle in my time, but I don’t recall:-
http://www.google.com/search?q=Natasha+Fatale%2C+Jay+Ward%27s+marvelous+dark+lady+of+the+Rocky+and+Bullwinkle&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ACAW_en
LOL
PJ
To quote the song maybe most often associated with The Beatles >>
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah >>
But you both missed that rather sadistic 007 ‘Nursee’ - Barbara Carrera - who rather sadistically tortured both Roger Moore’s 007 & her dumbo male accomplice
o)k .. ok ..
i KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKIN’, PUNK
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
But >>
seein’ this is like 4pm to midnight with 4 punk bands, punk >>
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsrXtnh6BLdnDlA_C4M7LQ_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091002002419AA22nsd
LOL
As for parallels between Revelation 17 infamous vision & …
http://www.BibleGateway.com
HEY
See now - or on VoD archives:-
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091003083148AA0SEsI
Wot d’ya think?
Expiry just extended - for folk sheltering from these gale force winds
Sounds like femme fatale hurricanes, eh?
LOL
Ever see "Body Heat?" "LA Confidential?" "Fatal Attraction?" "Basic Instinct?"
I loved Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" and Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," but occasionally, and perhaps too rarely, there is a still steamy, seductress that we know is no good, but just can’t resist!
October 9th, 2009 at 12:48 am
SADKDJN
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October 9th, 2009 at 12:54 am
What Are You Talking About Man
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October 9th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Natasha Fatale, Jay Ward’s marvelous dark lady of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, kind of killed off the stereoptype during the 1960’s; however, Kathleen Turner’s malevolent role in Kasdan’s "Body Heat", did a good job of bringing her back to sultry life.
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October 9th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Ever see "Body Heat?" "LA Confidential?" "Fatal Attraction?" "Basic Instinct?"
I loved Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" and Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," but occasionally, and perhaps too rarely, there is a still steamy, seductress that we know is no good, but just can’t resist!
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