A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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Showing posts with label ENRIQUE VENTURA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ENRIQUE VENTURA. Show all posts
SOILED GREEN
Crazy #3, March 1974
w: Marv Wolfman & Steve Skeates
a: Enrique Ventura
Science-fiction film about a dystopian society that takes place... last year. The meat shortage and population explosion were big hot-button issues when this came out so this was the major subject.
The population of New York City is 40 million and the main diet of the people is a food called Soylent Green, which is rationed weekly. William Simonsen (Joseph Cotten) is on the board of the Soylent corporation. He is in his luxury apartment which is broken into and he gets whacked. Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is the detective who investigates his murder.
Det. Thorn goes home to his squalid apartment which he shares with Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson), a former librarian, and he's brought items he's taken from Simonsen's apartment such as real food, booze, and some books containing potential information about Simonsen and Soylent. Thorn goes back to Simonsen's apartment to further inventigate his girlfriend Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young) who is holding a party for the rest of the women in the building. It's unauthorized because in the future, women are considered furniture that come with the apartments. Of all the things about a dystopian society, this seems to be considered normal.
Not shown: Thorn is being followed by Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors) an associated of Thorn who feels he “knows to much” while he's been searching for clues about the crime, excess people in the street are purged by scooping machines that take them away to an unknown location.
Sol goes to be euthanized, feeling he's already lived a long life, leaving only a note behind. Thorn finds the note and runs to see him before he dies. Then he sees he dead bodies being carried away in trucks and processed. He runs away and fights off people working in the processing plant but is defeated and carried away, but not before letting out his last words:
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SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!!!!!!!
IT'S PEOPLE!!
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973)
dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
Yeah, this trailer is age restricted because the movie was rated X. Sorry, kids.
LAST TANGLE IN PARIS
Crazy #3, March 1974
w: Marv Wolfman & Steve Skeates
a: Enrique Ventura
Movie about a French woman named Jeanne (Maria Schneider), who looks at an apartment and finds an American twice her age named Paul (Marlon Brando) is also checking it out. They decide to both take it to carry on an anonymous love affair.
Paul woos her using what we'd now call “negging”.
Jeanne's boyfriend Thomas (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is a filmmaker making a biography about their life, has no idea about Paul or their trysts, and proposes marriage to her. She goes back to the apartment and finds it empty, then Paul surprises her. She tries to call the affair off, but he insists in taking her out dancing. Afterwards, she tries to get away from him end ends up shooting him in self-defense.
They don't go into Paul's grieving over his ex-wife's suicide, which is sort of irrelevant to the steamy erotica used to sell the film.
from Clean Ads for Dirty Pictures by Larry Siegel and Jack Rickard in MAD #166 (the infamous middle finger cover issue), April 1974
UPDATE:
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
cover for Pancada, Brazilian version of Cracked
They called their parody (don't know if there was one inside) Last Chicken in Paris.
PLAIN HIGH DRIFTER
Crazy #3, March 1974
w: Marv Wolfman & Steve Skeates
a: Enrique Ventura
A stranger (Clint Eastwood, hereafter referred to as "The Stranger") comes to the town of Lago and is picked on by some of the locals, and his solution is to shoot or rape them. The sheriff (Walter Barnes) likes that he's a badass and wants him to kill three outlaws who killed the town's last mayor that are coming back. He'll do it on the condition he can have anything he wants.
The Stranger gives a plan involving setting up a picnic and painting the town red (literally) so it looks like Hell, the reason for the cover gag. Making the picnic tables involves using wood from a local hotelier's barn. He kicks people out of the hotel where he's staying. The townspeople don't know what he has up his sleeve, many turn against him. The wife of the man who runs the hotel (Verna Bloom) reveals the outlaws were set up to protect the town's mining interests. The outlaws return and everybody ends up killing each other, and The Stranger leaves.
HIGH PLAINS SHIFTER
Cracked #117, July 1974
a: John Severin
The bartender is drawn as William Conrad from Cannon, who was also in that issue. Almost every one of Eastwood's lines is the title of a previous movie he was in.
Part of his getting what he wants while in town is free drinks for everyone and making diminutive resident Mordecai (Billy Curtis) the new mayor.
one of the citizens is David Carradine from Kung Fu
The warden of the prison looks like he's caricatured as John Wayne here. The people in the third panel are those who have turned against The Stranger and beat him in his sleep, but turn out to be beating a dummy. He's outside and blows up the room with a stick of dynamite. Here they're the ones with the dynamite.
Mordecai seems to have been called Kelly just so they could make a Kelly's Heroes reference. The Stranger whipping one of the outlaws in the last panel refers to Eastwood's magnum speech in Dirty Harry.
The message seems to be "Screw all y'alls"
UPDATE:
I said I'd include the second page to the Cracked parody, so I inserted it above. See if you can find the references to other Clint Eastwood movies and TV shows.
