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Like a lot of Terry Southern's material, I'm always floored when a group of hip people didn't "get it." Maybe that's Southern's biggest fault; his material is perhaps often too cool for the room.
Dave's synopsis of "Candy ... finds herself assaulted and ravished by various individuals," reminds me of the post I made in the off-topic forum about inappropriate capsulizations of films. Yes, ultimately the film is about a girl who has sex with various men, but there's a hell of a lot more subtext than just that.
Is CANDY a well-made or even good film? Absolutely not. It's not supposed to be. It's social commentary behind the guise of a trashy exploitation film. It's possibly the worst collaboration of all of its stars
on purpose
(and printed in Technicolor, no less!). But it's not without substance in the script, and Southern is responsible for this. Like THE LOVED ONE, if you take it on its surface values, I'm sure to many it seems like vulgar chaos, but in reality, the film is biting satire. As CreepingBride so aptly pointed out, Southern was riffing on Voltaire's
Candide
.
And regarding Burton-- come on, the man was an actor's actor. Give the guy credit where it is due. He took a lot of projects to pay the bills, and a lot of his downfall was in the scripts he chose, not his performances. He's no better or worse than Vincent Price for that reason. For every HAMMERSMITH IS OUT, there's a WHERE EAGLES DARE to counterbalance it.
J. Theakston
Capitol Theatre, Rome, NY
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