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Cinema Blend commented on the production of a new take on the 1962-78 Barbarella comic by Jean-Claude Forest from France, originally adapted to live action in 1968 and now being adapted with actress Sydney Sweeney in the title role:

Barbarella, the controversial erotic comic of the 1960s that was famously adapted into a Jane Fonda-starring film, is now set to be adapted again. While this isn't the first attempt to make a modern Barbarella, this project appears to be moving forward like never before, and Sweeney's star power likely only helps. We’re still in the very early days of this project, so no telling if it'll end up as one of the best sci-fi movies ever, but here’s what we know about the new Barbarella adaption right now.

And here's what's known about the star of the original adaptation, Jane Fonda: she did quite a bit to damage morale during the Vietnam war, and hurt the USA troops at the time. And, I guess, never had a critical word to say about communism. Supposedly, she regretted her behavior years later, but what she did undoubtably casts a serious pall over the original movie adaptation, and will surely make it hard for some to watch it. Let's hope Sweeney knows better than to take the kind of divisive political standings Fonda did in her time. Now, back on the new adaptation that's in the works:

What we can say about a Barbarella movie is that it will be a science fiction movie that sees the title character going on some sort of adventure through space, and it will also involve Barbarella having a not-insignificant amount of sex. Barbarella was a fairly controversial comic in its day due to the fact that it used the kid-friendly medium of comics to depict content explicitly designed for adults.

Well, this sure is some day to reduce the topic to the verge of being unintelligable. By that logic, even political cartoons in newspaper editorials are doing the same. Let's also not forget that for many years, the USA animation industry was ghettoized in the sense they'd only produce kid-friendly cartoons for Saturday morning matinees and movie theaters, and it wasn't until the late 1980s when the Simpsons came along that things slowly began to change, yet even today, there's still quite a few only being produced for children, right down to alleged children's cartoons now injecting LGBT ideology and other divisive politics into the screenplays that's unsuitable for children. And on that note:

Today the movie is seen as a cult classic, but while it was boundary-breaking and seen as a fairly sex-positive and even feminist film in its day, that day has long been past. The sexual and gender attitudes come across as quite dated, doubly so for a future-set narrative. A modern Barbarella certainly has an opportunity to update some of these ideas and by doing so tell a 21st-century Barbarella story.

Well it's not hard to guess they believe being sex-positive in a heterosexual sense is somehow wrong, and if it turns out this new film adaptation is little more than an excuse for shoving more LGBT propaganda down everyone's throats, that'll say all we need to know what's gone wrong with modern mainstream cinema, where heterosexuality is now under assault and watered down.

If the people developing the new movie really think modern PC's such a big deal, they should make their own separate sci-fi project. Any further fuss over how a new take on Barbarella should be made will only make things worse. And if any new take produced, Sweeney or not, builds on wokeness, then sorry, but it'll just have to be skipped like the recent Madame Web movie was. Cinema Blend's only making things worse by lecturing everybody that what the original comics/film dealt with is "dated".

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