Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to rush on to the next explosion, this movie had writers (John Milius, Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian; the film is based on a Tom Clancy novel) who take the time to keep us in the picture. You may not remember all of it later, but as the plot unfolds, its logic is, you might say, clear and present...
Wishman's 1962 classic "Nude on the Moon" will be shown. None of her films are heavy on plot, but here goes: two men ride to the moon in what looks like an enormous aluminum soda can to find a female, nudist utopia. This is "Earth Girls Are "Easy" and "Teenage Vixens from Outer Space" meet the sex-shop slaves, fulfilling the horny fantasies of the Earthling...
...ring. Willing to sacrifice anything for her job, Chesty has a camera surgically implanted into her left breast. Everytime she kills someone she is to take a photo of them to show her boss. If Maxwell Smart had only thought of this one! No matter the inanity of the plot, it requires Chesty to disrobe in every scene, pull up her left breast while the shutter sounds and a flash lights up the scene. This is like no other film I've, and, I trust, you've ever seen...
...plush red shag carpet. Her actors are not merely "m e t h o d" they are just plain bad. But it doesn't matter, you're too busy scoffing, guffawing and trying to make sure the snot doesn't fly out your nose from laughing. Without the crazy plot this film would remain a time-period classic for its decor and dress. Chesty is always equipped with her frilly tops to make her chest look even bigger and her bellbottom polyester suits which create a little dust cloud everywhere she goes...
...world. As film reviewer Jim Morton said in Incredibly Strange Films, '"Double Agent 73 makes [John Waters'] 'Pink Flamingos' look almost genteel." If you've ever seen any of Waters' films, you'll know just how extreme this is. While Wishman doesn't utilize "Pink Flamingos" beastiality plot (with chickens, by the way), she is obviously an influence to Waters...