Word: scarecrows
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Carmen, Baby, reputed successor to I, A Woman in the skin flick genre, aspires to higher things. It promises a story. A squeaky voice at the beginning warns that events will occur--perhaps even a death. And the hero--that's what you call the pugnosed, smalleyed scarecrow in a cop's uniform--knows what virtue is. At one time he patrolled a beat, reported on time, and protected prostitutes from armed prostitutes. But the hero's struggle against ungodly tendencies and the hint of a plot are a cover-up. The movie's a smorgasbord for voyeurs...
...Prince of Darkness being a gentleman), Satan is amused by their respectable atheism. To teach them a lesson about his powers-and about the reality of the supernatural-he turns soothsayer and predicts that the editor will be beheaded by a woman. The Devil saunters off, accompanied by a scarecrow figure in checked trousers and a cat "the size of a pig, black as soot and with luxuriant cavalry officer's whiskers." The prophecy is quickly fulfilled when the editor is decapitated under a streetcar driven by a woman...
...scarecrow restraining like a man, its rings...
When he won a scholarship to Yale, his scarecrow clothes drew jeers. "My whole freshman year I wore brown and white shoes," he recalls. "Actually they were impractical because the white one kept getting dirty...
Agnes makes a scarecrow out of her father's old black suit, and when an escaped criminal (Dean Stockwell) puts on the scarecrow's clothes and collapses from a wound, the lonely threesome discover three compelling reasons to shelter him from the police. To the irascible old judge, he is a potential audience; to Karen, he is a potential bedmate; to Agnes, he is her mystical scarecrow come to life. In the unfolding of the story, each eventually gets something of his wish...