Post subject: The weirdest things you never knew about Flash Gordon
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:49 pm
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:15 am Posts: 1551 Location: Los Angeles
"The director said, 'I want you and Sam to try to go for a relationship, make this as human as possible. Don't camp it up or go for laughs.' That's why the movie's so funny, because we didn't try to make it campy. In fact, I'm surprised that (people) are laughing, because we weren't out to make a funny film. In fact, De Laurentiis was very upset when he showed the film and people started to laugh, because he thought they were laughing at it and not with it.
Sam J. Jones basically agrees: "The film's very campy, very adventurous. We played it straight; we couldn't have played it any other way. When the crew watched the rushes and were laughing hysterically, Dino said, 'Why are you laughing?' And then they discovered they had a comedy, that it was camp. I've heard from the screenings that some people couldn't hear the words because of all the applause and laughter...
Heh. With that cast, how could it not be camp? Fond memories of seeing this and all the other sword 'n sandals type early 80's flicks on the big screen in the AC San Antonio summers past. Damn. Now i need to find a proper DVD/Blu-Ray copy of this!
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