Barb Wire (film)

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Barb Wire

Movie poster for Barb Wire
Directed by David Hogan
Produced by Dennis Brody
Robert Del Valle
Peter Heller
Ray Manzella
Todd Moyer
Mike Richardson
Brad Wyman
Written by Chris Warner (comics)
Ilene Chaiken (story)
Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay)
Starring Pamela Anderson
Temuera Morrison
Victoria Rowell
Jack Noseworthy
Xander Berkeley
Udo Kier
Music by Michel Colombier
Cinematography Rick Bota
Michael A. Jones
Editing by Peter Schink
Distributed by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Propaganda Films
Release date(s) May 3, 1996
Running time 98 min
Language English
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Barb Wire is a 1996 film based on the Dark Horse comic book, Barb Wire. The film was produced by Brad Wyman and starred Pamela Anderson.

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[edit] Plot

The movie was a star vehicle for Pamela Anderson, which was intended to enable her to cross over from television to movie stardom. With a plot based on Casablanca, the film had Anderson playing the title role, a mercenary and nightclub owner in a cyberpunk future entrusted with looking after a pair of contact lenses necessary for the exposure of a political scandal. The film was critically mauled on its release, and was considered a box office disappointment. It is mainly remembered for a notable partial nude scene, in which Pamela Anderson dances topless in a bar as water is sprayed on her, although some were cut on the film's initial release, but restored for later home video and DVD releases.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Trivia

  • The entire "Don't call me Babe" leitmotif of Barb Wire comes from the original advertising for the Barb Wire Dark Horse comic book, in which she said those words to differentiate herself from a buxom, slightly airy comic book heroine named Babe, who was created by John Byrne.
  • Barb's motorcycle is a 900cc Triumph Thunderbird made as a water-cooled three cylinder model by the new Triumph factory at Hinckley in Leicestershire.
  • In the film, Pam's waist was laced down to 17 inches. The corset and the heels she wore made fighting scenes very challenging for her.[1]
  • The script is loosely based on Casablanca. Anderson fills the Bogart role, while Morrison fills Ingrid Bergman's. Several scenes are near copies. In the original film, letters of transit will get Victor Laslo out of Casablanca, in Barb Wire, special contact lenses which can bypass an eye scan perform the same function.
  • Anderson was pregnant during the filming of this movie, and did her own stunts.[2]
  • Pamela Anderson suffered a miscarriage during filming of the movie[3].

[edit] Awards

  • Nominated for the 1996 Golden Raspberry Awards in the categories Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Pamela Anderson), Worst Screen Couple (Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements"), Worst Screenplay (Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken), Worst New Star (Pamela Anderson) (won) and Worst "Original" Song ("Welcome to Planet Boom! (a.k.a. This Boom's for You)", written by Tommy Lee).
  • Nominated for Best Fight (Pamela Anderson Lee/Bad guy) at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards.

[edit] Soundtrack

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pamwatch : Interviews
  2. ^ Pamwatch : Pamela Denise Anderson's Biography
  3. ^ [1]

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Dark Horse Comics films
The Mask (1994) • Timecop (1994) • Barb Wire (1996) • Virus (1999) • Hellboy (2004) • Alien vs. Predator (2004) • Son of the Mask (2005) • Sin City (2005) • 300 (2007) • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) • Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)