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Paradise
I agree
with Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames who complained to the production
that there was too much unnecessary nudity in the film. Indeed, that is
true. But if there hadn't been all this showing and added sex scenes
(and by the way, kudos to Phoebe Cates' stand-in too), Paradise
wouldn't have been made. More importantly, the two would not have had
the feedback they enjoyed.
So long live the tits, because otherwise Stuart Gillard's Paradise is a
long and very boring romance and adventure story that grossly and
embarrassingly copies Blue Lagoon, which came out a couple of years
earlier, with, just, just, a couple of minor differences. That is, the
two are not brothers, there are bad guys in the flesh, and just as a
bonus, the protagonist gets naked.
Gillard who also writes the screenplay places the story in Iraq in
1823. Sarah (Cates) after losing her parents is under the protection of
the servant Geoffrey who has to bring her back. They join a caravan of
missionaries where they meet David (Aames) but during the journey they
are attacked by an evil emir known as The Jackal, described in the most
absurd and racist way possible.
The emir kills everyone and falls in love with the beautiful Sarah whom
he wants for himself. She, however, runs away with David and his
servant, who dies shortly afterwards. The two young people left alone
have to fend for themselves, find an oasis and find a chimpanzee who
becomes their friend. Here I pause for a moment. I don't think
chimpanzees live there, maybe I'm wrong, but in our case this
hyper-humanised specimen also meets a mate and starts a family with the
baby of the house, who disappears in some scenes.
Back to us, the two lost in the desert between one oasis and another
occasionally have to protect themselves from the attacks of the
ferocious emir who goes around with some henchmen waving the Union
Jack. Who knows why.
Anyway, the two protagonists fall in love and she gets pregnant.
Chimpanzees aside, Paradise is full of errors and above all, it is
boring as hell. A holiday film direction tries to show the natural and
especially the physical beauty of the protagonist, who, as mentioned,
later protests and disassociates herself from the film, even though it
is the reason why she became a film star at the time and a famous
singer thanks to the single of the same name used as the credits.
There is nothing that works here and the Razzie Award won by Aames is
more than deserved. The camel that runs and collapses to the ground
exhausted, besides acting better than the leads, fully represents the
feeling one gets when watching this film.