I don't think I've had a remotely sheltered life. Andrea says, 'One friend said to me quite recently, "How on earth do you manage to write about the things you do, when you lead a very quiet life and don't see that many people?" I was quite offended. And its success propelled Andrea to a certain stardom herself, although, even then, the question of how a seemingly genteel former teacher managed to think up such debauchery was a puzzling one.Īpparently, it continues to be so, even among those who know her.
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'Bouquet', as Andrea calls it, was a TV triumph, redefining how miniseries were made, and making household names of its stars, Frank Finlay and Susan Penhaligon.
Or, as writer Clive James more pithily put it at the time, 'By the end, everybody had been to bed with everybody else, except the baby.'
His wife, meanwhile, was having sex with her son-in-law, who was in turn playing dangerous, sometimes violent sex games with his wife.
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With its themes of infidelity, sexual jealousy and incestuous desire, Bouquet Of Barbed Wire, her 1969 novel, broke many taboos and, when it was made into a TV series in 1976, had audiences watching aghast.Įveryone, it seems, was shocked at the plot, which had a father seemingly lusting after his daughter while having an affair with his secretary. With her unassuming manner and appearance, it's hard to believe that Andrea Newman is responsible for one of the most shocking pieces of entertainment of our times. Words to live by-in Barb’s 2017 and our own.Scandalous storyline: Susan Penhaligon starred in the original version of Bouquet Of Barbed Wire "A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do-and in this world, you gotta use everything you got," Barb says, as she steels herself for yet another demeaning encounter with another bug-eyed creep. Barb Wire-which is, at heart, a movie-length excuse to show Pamela Anderson in a leather bustier-is hardly a feminist text, but it can’t help but smuggle a little women’s liberation into its narrative.
More ominously, Barb Wire is set in a world where Nazi sympathizers feel emboldened enough to publicly declare themselves Nazis, and where misogyny is so omnipresent that it’s essentially inseparable from culture at large. And in the midst of America’s disastrous political reality, where does everyone want to go? Canada! Guess who happens to stumble into a pair? And guess who hands them over to Axel on a rainy tarmac before announcing a new plan to join the resistance in France? Louis, I think this is the ending of a shitty movie.īut 21 years after Barb Wire first hit theaters, this absurd version of 2017 does manage to get a few things right. Unfortunately, Axel’s new wife can’t pass the retinal scanner without a set of technologically enhanced contact lenses. Everybody comes to Hammerhead, the bar Barb owns-including her ex-lover Axel, now married to an important member of the resistance. Barb Wire cribs so shamelessly from Casablanca that it stops feeling like an homage and starts feeling like a sexed-up remake. Here is a plot summary of Barb Wire: Casablanca. Barb Wire’s 2017 features a nightmarish, war-torn America populated almost exclusively by creeps trying to grab Barb by the pussy.
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