

Pygar endures a mock crucifixion and Barbarella is placed in a cage, where hundreds of birds prepare to attack her. The concierge describes the Mathmos: living energy in liquid form, powered by evil thoughts and used as an energy source in Sogo, which sits atop it. Pygar and Barbarella are captured by Sogo's Black Queen and her concierge. Pygar flies Barbarella to Sogo, a den of violence and debauchery after she restores his will to fly by having sex with him. Pygar introduces her to Professor Ping, who offers to repair her ship. She is found by Pygar, a blind angel who has lost the will to fly. Barbarella relents and enjoys it but admits that she understands why sex is considered primitive and distracting on Earth.īarbarella leaves the planet and crashes into a labyrinth inhabited by outcasts exiled from Sogo.
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Barbarella is confused since Earthlings no longer have intimate physical contact instead, they take pills "until full rapport is achieved." Hand suggests having sex in his bed instead. When Barbarella offers to repay him, Hand asks her to make love to him. Hand tells her that Durand is in the city of Sogo and offers her a ride to her ship in his ice boat. Barbarella is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman who patrols the ice looking for errant children. They bring her to the wreckage of a spaceship, where they bind and attack her using mechanical dolls with razor-sharp teeth. Barbarella crash-lands on Tau Ceti's 16th planet and is knocked unconscious by two children. Durand is the inventor of a laser-powered weapon, the positronic ray, which Earth's leaders fear will cause mass destruction. In an unspecified future, space adventurer Barbarella is sent by the Earth's president to retrieve Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti planetary system. Although several attempts at sequels, remakes, and other adaptations have been planned, none of these have entered production. Contemporary film critics praised Barbarella 's visuals and cinematography but found its storyline weak after the first few scenes.

The film was particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where it was the year's second-highest-grossing film. The film began shooting immediately following the completion of another De Laurentiis comic adaptation, Danger: Diabolik, with both films sharing several cast and crew members. A friend of Vadim's, Terry Southern, wrote the initial screenplay, which changed considerably during filming and led to seven other writers being credited in the final release, including Vadim and Forest, the latter of whom also worked on the film's production design. Vadim attempted to cast several actresses- Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren-in the title role before choosing Fonda, his then-wife. Having expressed an interest in comics and science fiction, Vadim was hired to direct Barbarella after producer Dino De Laurentiis purchased the film rights to the comic series.

The supporting cast includes John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi, and Claude Dauphin. The film stars Jane Fonda as the title character, a space traveler and representative of the United Earth government sent to find scientist Durand Durand, who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity.
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$5.5 million (North American rentals) īarbarella is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim, based on the French comic series of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest.
