barbarella opening titles

Opening titles of the movie Barbarella, with Jane Fonda, by Roger Vadim (1968).
The opening sequence, credited to Arcady and the great Maurice Binder, features an unrestrained intergalactic planetary aviatrix Jane Fonda peeling off her space suit in the kind of weightlessness that has the viewer seeing past the errant reflection. Text spills from the head, chaotically at first, then coalesces in credit, and finally plays the coy cover up.

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[polycarpx]

God, I hope there isnt a remake. You know it would suck. They just cant remake movies from the 60s without being all PC about it. And then the remake becomes the standard and the original goes down the memory hole. When was the last time you saw the original "Bedazzled"?

[captpicard100]

Jane Fonda looking about as gorgeous as a woman ever did in films from the sixties, with possibly Raquel Welch in "One Million years BC" a very close second, and Ursula Andress in "Dr No" an equally close third?

[MindbenderMilo]

Let's hope they use these (European) title credits rather than the censored US version (like they did for the dvd) for the Blu Ray!

[seethransom]

This movie has been a part of my life since I was a teen. When I was a teen, I went to Catholic (water)boarding school. I was a strange kid. Already been to Rocky Horror, seen Pink Flamingos, and read National Lampoon. They called me gifted LOL. Horny! Anyways enough background.

We were only allowed PG movies (later PG-13). With my "gifted knowledge", I was a database on PG Boob. When I showed up with Barbarella, it was PG. We played the hell out of that tape.

To this day, I love it. Vive Dino

[mrcarling67]

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sexy

[innismor11]

@captpicard100 Welch # 1.

[GAGE1959]

@Blackroo1967 Wrong, Bob Crewe and Glitterhouse performed all of the sound tracks for the movie.

[franzchick66]

If I were Jane Fonda, I'd show everybody this scene and say "Look how hot I used to look!" She still looks good but it's awesome that she has this "memento" when she looked perfect to keep forever.

[forrykid]

Robert Rodriguez was asked to direct the remake and he agreed as long as he could cast his wife, Rose McGowen in the lead.

Her little dance at the beginning of "Planet Terror" was pretty hot.

But the studio said "No" and so Rodriguez walked.

As fine as she is, I agree with the studio...Barbarella is intelligent and innocent

Rose looks kinda mean.

[smikro1]

I saw Barbarella (in Tucson) shortly after it was released in 1968. The nudity in the clip posted here is much more explicit than the version I saw, especially near the end. Is this from a more recently edited version of the film?

[ReturnToNilbog]

@polycarpx I honestly did not know bedazzled was remade. At least i have seen it on T.V on several occasions, so at least its not completely forgotten