S.O.B. is a 1981 American comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards. It stars Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, 1 Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Loretta Swit, 1 Shelley Winters, 1 and William Holden (in the last movie).
S.O.B. produced by Lorimar and originally released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on 1 July 1981.
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Plot
The story is the satire of the film industry and the Hollywood community. The main character, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan), is a successful phenomenal film producer who has just made the first major failure of his career, to the dismay of his movie studio, resulting in the loss of his own sanity. Felix attempted suicide four times: He tried to die of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car, only to put it in his teeth and through the side of the garage, down the sand dune, and into the Pacific Ocean. He then tries to hang himself from the rafter in the upstairs bedroom, only to fall through the floor, landing on a toxic Hollywood gossip columnist standing in the living room below. Next, she tries to castrate herself in her kitchen oven, but is prevented from doing her intent by two guest houses with other things on their minds.
After that he spends most of his time drugged while his friends and hangers occupy his beach house. The occupation leads to a party that turns into a party. Finally, he tried to shoot himself with the weapons of a police officer, but was prevented from doing so by a young female waiter wearing only a pair of panties. The experience gave him a brainstorming idea that the reason for his film's failure was lack of sex.
Felix decided to save the movie and its reputation. With great difficulty he persuaded the studio and his wife Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), the Oscar-winning film star with a clean image, to allow him to revise the film into soft-core pornography where he had to perform topless. He liquidated most of his fortune to buy the recordings and to finance further production. If he fails, he and Sally will be impoverished, at least by Hollywood standards.
At first the studio executives were eager to unload the film to Felix and continue, but when Sally through the topless scene and the movie seems to be successful, they plan to regain control. Using California community property laws, they get distribution and final cutting rights by persuading Sally to sign them. Felix is ​​angry and mad trying to steal a negative film from the dome of the studio color lab, with just a water gun. He was shot and killed by police who considered his weapons real.
Felix's untimely death created a crisis for his cronies, Culley (William Holden), director of Night Wind; Coogan (Robert Webber), Sally's press agent; and Dr. Finegarten (Robert Preston), who plans to give him a funeral at sea. They stole her body from the funeral home, replacing the famous but undesirable character actor who died in the first scene of the movie. Felix gets a Viking funeral on a burning boat, while other actors end up getting a lot of praise from Hollywood that deserves it.
Epilogue later revealed that Felix's film was a box office smash, and Sally won another Academy Award for her performance.
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Little is seen from the film which is the focus of the plot, except for an extended dream sequence and a short shot near the end. The title is Night Wind , which provoked the "Critics Break Wind" header seen on the copy of Variety at the beginning SOB after the initial failure. The Night Wind plot is kept vague; this involves a cold business woman (played by Sally) whose inability to love a chauvinist executive rivals her roots in childhood trauma that causes her sexual release.
The highlight of Night Wind is the first scene of SOB , an elaborate song and dance sequence set to "Polly Wolly Doodle", where Sally wanders through a room full of giants toys (some of which come alive), singing songs while wearing tomboys. The implication is that his father's death caused the character of Andrews to leave his childhood and become cold and cold.
The second scene, which takes place at the end of the film, has the Andrews character arriving at the house of his future lover after the dream, where he reveals that he still loves her, "regardless of everything."
When Felix rewrote the film to make it into a soft porn movie, a change was made: Sally's character changed from sexually into a nymphomaniac. Her lover went from a male chauvinist to a secret crossword. Felix stroked the entire sequence of songs, turning them from dreams into hallucinations "... caused by powerful aphrodisiacs inserted into his Bosco" and replacing the usual version of "Polly Wolly Doodle" with a more haunting version. She has a "toy" outfit in more erotic outfits, and includes a funny bark type muscle man (played by SOB choreographer Paddy Stone), who seduces Andrews characters before she refuses to wink her breasts.
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Cast
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Title
"CRY." (in the movie) stands for "Standard Operational Bullshit" and refers to misinformation to be the norm. Acronyms also mean "sexually oriented business" (when it comes to strip clubs) and more generally "bastards" (rude people).
A Spanish rank of the film holds the acronym S.O.B., claiming that it stands for "Sois hOnrados Bandidos" (You Are Honest Crooks). The Argentine title for the film was changed to Se acabÃÆ'³ el mundo (World Ends), has nothing to do with the original title.
Three years later, when Edwards got his name removed from the 1984's City Heat writing credits, he was billed under the pseudonym Sam O. Brown. (CRY.)
Influences
While writing the scenario, Edwards makes use of some of his own experiences. Felix Farmer's character is a man no different from Edwards, while actress Sally Miles has a certain resemblance to real life wife Julie Andrews (who plays it).
Story S.O.B. parallel to their famous Edwards and Andrews experience, but an Academy Award nomination, a failure, Darling Lili . Intended to uncover the previously evil and sexy sides of Andrews, the film is in trouble, significantly over budget, and subject to post-production studio disruptions. The early 1970s had more bad news for Edwards; he made two more movies, Wild Rovers, a west with William Holden, and The Carey Treatment with James Coburn. Again, a studio breakdown occurred and the two films were edited without Edwards input. Each one opened for negative reviews and bad business. Struck hard by these events, Edwards went to Europe to work and get rid of studio distractions. The plan was successful, leading to successful projects including three sequels of "Pink Panther" starring Peter Sellers.
In S.O.B. , Andrews's character agrees (with some pharmaceutical persuasion) to "show my boobies" in a scene in a movie-in-the-film. For this scene, comedian Johnny Carson thanked Andrews at the Academy Awards for "showing us that the hills are still alive," referring to the famous line of The Sound of Music opening the sequence.
Reception
Critical response
Critical Opinion of S.O.B. split sharply. Remarkably, the scenario was nominated for both the Guild of America Writers Award for Best Written Comedy for Screenplay and Razzie Award for the Worst Scenario. It was also nominated for Razzie for the Worst Director and the Golden Globe Award for Best Movie Movie - Comedy/Music.
SOB has gained sect followers and by May 2018, the film holds an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes by consensus: "The continuous blast of unbridled vitriol from writer-director Blake Edwards, SOB is one of the most black - and most consistently funny - satiric Hollywood ever aired. "
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote in his review:
S. OB , the latest blues, the most maniac, the bitterest of Blake Edwards, is about Hollywood you do not see on the screen adaptation of Nathanael West's Day of the Locust. This is not about the small failures, fraudsters and nuts that live on the fringe of the filthy movie industry. Instead, S.O.B. has a class consciousness of arrogant press agents. It's about car dealers and crazy dealers who run studios, who hire and fire people who make a million dollars per picture, and who cut the throat one day and the next day attend a glaring sentimental awards for a person whose throat is cut off so quickly. It's a bad movie, biased, self-serving which also often becomes funny. It's open today in Coronet. Mr. Edwards, the man who is primarily responsible for the string of successful Peter Sellers- Pink Panther comedy, here pours his heart - that pumps pure bile about his own ups and downs with Hollywood's early 70s establishment. That's when he made a series of the greatest, most spectacular clips of his funny, Darling Lili style, which went so far from his budget that it almost drowned out the financing studio, Paramount Pictures, which also, by chance, released SOB S.O.B. which is also very funny consistently. The lover who fought in Sidney Lumet-Jay Presson Allen Just Say What You Want is Romeo and Juliet compared to the people on SOB, nobody is paying much attention to love however, unless it will have some effect on the box-office grosses.
Television version
The television broadcast of the film contains alternative retrieval and editing of some scenes that initially contain sex and nudity, such as party and party scenes and Night Wind 's erotic dream sequences in which Julie Andrews exposes her breasts. The television version contains a scene in which Robert Vaughn, as head of studio David Blackman, receives a phone call while in bed with his mistress, and is only seen naked from the waist up. In an original theatrical print, she wears nylon stockings, bustier, and other transsexual trinkets.
Release
The original video release was made by CBS Video Enterprises in 1982, on both VHS and CED Videodisc, and then re-published on VHS by CBS/Fox Video in the mid-1980s. Warner Bros purchased additional rights in 1989 with the purchase of Lorimar, and the film was released at Laserdisc via Warner Home Video in 1990. Warners released the DVD edition in 2002 and reissued in 2012.
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External links
- S.O.B. on IMDb
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