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How could anyone hate this movie? It's got Brian Blessed in it!
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It was too weird for adults in 1980 (UK) but was very popular with kids including me, those kids are now grown up and still love FLASH.
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I was eight years old the first time I saw Flash Gordon. It was the night it premiered on HBO. I was pumped! You see, two weeks earlier, my parents had taken me to a video store for the very first time and I cried when they refused to let me rent Flash. "It will be on HBO soon", I recall my mother saying! So I was more than ready to watch it on cable that night!
I loved this film. Still do. It's a comic book come to life. The soundtrack was the first record I ever purchased.
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This movie was like flying blind on a rocket cycle π. I love it to this day!
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The Dale Spider scene exists in "The Making of Flash Gordon" hour-long special that aired on ABC Television in the US around March 8, 1981, aired only once; though for some reason didn't make it on any home-releases. The Making-of TV special also showed how they made the cloud-effects by dropping colored oil into a fish-tank setup, and some costuming designs, and Hawkman City was filmed. She was shown dressed up in a sort of Arboria swamp-setting with a giant web and she was in the top-right with a green, pointy crown and extra makeup '80s style and green. I believe she had fake vampire teeth and bottom-left was Flash stuck in her web, squirming and shocked. He wakes up and shakes his head quickly to get the memory out of the nightmare he just had.
Lion-Man was supposed to be Prince Thun as in the comics.
Klytus was supposed to be a Ming clone-in-training, as there were several, apparently, according to the book. Peter recommended removing the white-costume scene when they capture Aura and prepare her for treason-interrogation. That one is a short, 1 minute scene. Some cuts exist.
THere is an extended final-battle that was filmed with Ming on an island controlling monsters and the cave-entrance lined with Klytus-skulls (failed clone-Mings) but was unfinished and later scrapped.
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I freaking LOVE this movie. I grew up watching it as a kid. I LOVE Queen, I love the costumes, the music, the atmosphere, everything. I own the soundtrack and the movie and watch it regularly.
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Another thing. Back in the mid 70s, Alexandro Jodorowsky was pitching Dune to Hollywood and had produced a limited number of mindblowingly good presentation books with the storyboards and amazing production art by Moebious, Foss and Giger.
Most of these books were never returned to the director, but were passed around Hollywood and plundered without shame or remorse.
When De Laurentis got wind of the proposed project, he lobbied hard for studio execs to cancel the project. he wanted to film Dune himself (and eventually he did). He also no doubt looked over the concept art with ideas running through his mind...
The Flash Gordon sets, costumes, certain sequences and the use of Pink Floyd (replaced ultimately with Queen) were all suspiciously familiar elements. They were "adapted" from Jodorowsky's Dune.
The scene where Barin rips the visor from a controller and finds they were attached to his eye sockets? Dune. Look at all the costumes and even Ming's logo and compare to Moebius's designs?
I can imagine de Laurentis walking around with a copy of Jodorowsky's book tucked under one arm at all times while producing Flash Gordon.
Having said all that, i saw the movie many times and loved the multi-colored skies and art-deco spaceships. It also tickled me that princess aura called her pet lizard Fellini!
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Three things:
Regarding the idea of Ming and Aura being "intimate", during the scene when Ming is feeling up Dale with his magic ring, he asks Klytus "Have you ever seen such response?" to which Klytus replies "No, she even rivals your daughter".
Second: If you WATCH the movie, you have everything in context; if you don't, there are some interesting sounds that sound like, um ... something else. When Dr. Zarkov is having his memory wiped all the way to his mother giving birth, the screams of labour sound more like his conception (if you take my meaning). The Initiation scene on Arboria where you just hear faster and faster thumping with multiple males hyperventilating sounds like ... well, you know.
I think Bob Guccione Jr. had more of a hand in this movie than we're led to believe.
Third: I ADORE THIS MOVIE!!!
My 11 year old self saw it in the movies over and over again, had the record that I played over and over again, watched it on cable, bought the Video Cassette with Dale's escape put back in, bought the DVD, then the Blu-ray,...
Put this movie on and I become a glowing 11 year old again.
Hope you're doing well.
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I first saw Flash Gordon one Saturday afternoon during a snow storm on a "local access " tv channels movie of the week in the late 90's. Although I missed the first 40ish minutes it just stuck with me.
Nothing gets you blood pumping like the Theme song by Queen
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This film is a Christmas film for me as in Britain in the 80s it was shown around 11pm and took you into Christmas day.
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I ran a lemonade stand in front of my house most of the day to earn $1.00 to go watch Flash Gordon that night where it was playing in the auditorium of the local high school. I loved it then and I still love it now. I am the happy owner of both the Blu-ray and the motion picture soundtrack. Legendary music, amazing cast, wild story, and such a unique look and set designs. So glad the fandom for this movie has continued to grow over the years. Great video!
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This movie made me a Brian Blessed fan. He was having SO much fun with the role!
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FG was a box office hit in much of Europe, notably Italy and UK. But since it proved to be a dud in the US film market the planned trilogy was unsurprisingly scrapped!
Splendid video π½π
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Freddie wearing that Flash β‘Tee is Iconic AF!! π
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One of the best highlights of the movie for me was Timothy Dalton. Queen's soundtrack was awesome.
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Flash Gordon came out at the same time as Popeye with Robin Williams and saw them back to back. A great double feature! Flash Gordon had a ton of models of spaceships made, but the never used models showed up in Starlog Magazine. Example Dr Zarkov's failed inventions.
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Very underrated movie in a wonderful decade of movies.
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The Woodsman that failed the trial is Peter Duncan. He went on to be one of the co-hosts of popular British TV show Blue Peter. (he wasn't blue in the slightest)
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I had the privilege of meeting Sam Jones at San Diego Comic-Con 2023. He was a Super nice man. I also found out that he was a U.S. Marine. I did not know this. He was very kind and took a good bit of time to talk to me and everyone else that wanted to talk. Flash Gordon is a Great Film that I grew up watching. I enjoy it, still today. In fact, I just bought a VHS copy at a garage sale this summer. Fantastic!
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@Frikkieman
5 months ago
So...because George Lucas couldn't get the rights, we got Star Wars...because Kurt Russel passed on it, we got Escape From New York and Flash Gordon still ended up awesome!? That's a triple win right there. Oh AND Queen wrote the soundtrack...perfection.
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