SOB and 'Blue Movie'
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — S.O.B.
schappe1 — 19 years ago(July 29, 2006 10:34 PM)
Was SOB a rip-off of Terry Southern's novel, which is now going to be made into a film? Check out these links which indicate that Julie Andrews had agreed at one point to star in a screen version of "Blue Movie" to be directed by Stanley Kubrick:
http://www.gadflyonline.com/7-23-01/FTR-SOUTHERN.html
http://www.altx.com/int2/terry.southern.html
http://www.carminestreet.com/smoke_signals.html#terry.southern
These interviews, along with descriptions of the novel, (I haven't read it), make it sound a little like SOB, except the original concept was going to "push the envelope" about as far as it could go. It certainly would have shaken Hollywood up. -
schappe1 — 18 years ago(November 22, 2007 10:21 AM)
but base your work on things you've experienced. And if Julie was offered "Blue Movie", the absurdity of her doing a porno film at the height of her career might have inspired Edwards to have his director hero do the same thing. You don't have to call it a rip-off if you don't want to.
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milliedil — 18 years ago(March 04, 2008 09:33 AM)
a fictional take on what really happened to Blake and Julie during filming of their mega-flop DARLING LILI (1970). The character played by Robert Vaughan is a parody of then-studio chief Robert Evans (who sabotaged Edwards and DARLING LILI), and other charactersnotably those played by Shelley Winters and Loretta Switwere also based on real people who were well-known-to-Hollywood insiders.
This film has zero to do with BLUE MOVIE.
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