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S. O. B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.B._%28film%29
I decided this because it's a special one for me, it's controversial and not all that very well known, so it might be interesting.
In 1968 Blake did a flick called Darling Lili, sort of a Mary Poppins thing which flopped horribly, both critically and financially. I know he's been at war with Hollywood all his life, but still managed to redeem himself receiving an honorary Oscar. (With his acceptance speech) So this film is his revenge on Hollywood, depicting it for what it is - a brutal machinery of dictatorial studio executives, directors and frustrated actors, but in a Pink Panther sort of way.
It begins with an opening crawl saying Felix Farmer, who actually represents Blake, and played ELECTRIFYINGLY by Richard Mulligan, who was very succesfull and loved by everyone did a film Night Wind, the most ambitious and expensive film ever, which flopped. So, Night Wind is actually Darling Lili in S. O. B. Studio executives were very upset because they lost a lot of money... and Felix lost his mind.
At the beginning an actor gets a heart attack while jogging on the beach right next to Farmer's house and dies instantly. For the 1st half of the film they just walk by him, the only one who sits next to him and cares is a dog. We get to see the ocean throwing him again and again on the beach etc. They finally take him to the morgue only after the dog's had enough and bytes one of the people.
So, that's the sort of sarcasme which only gets worse and worse as the film progresses. Really, I've never seen anything darker.
Felix is completely out of his mind in the begining, not having said a word ever since the flop. He tries to kill himself 4 times. Firts, by gas from his limousine, but the butler comes along, and accidentaly pushes the pedale, so it ends in the ocean. Second, he falls on a gossip collumnist while trying to hang himself, which leaves him completely unharmed (physically), and sends her to a hospital with 5 broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. Third, he puts his head in the oven, but is interrupted by a couple who collapse on him while doing it during a party that was meant to cheer him up, but instead turned into an orgy. And finally, he tries to kill himself with a gun blowing off his head, but a hooker gives him a blow job and an idea - he'll turn Night wind into a 4 hours pornographic epic. So, he immidiately bursts into a room where the director Culley, played greatly by William holden in his last performance, is shagging another hooker. "SEX, CULLEY! WE'LL GIVE THEM A 4H 300 MILLION DOLLAR PORNOGRAPHIC EPIC! HAHA! WE'LL F* THE ENTIRE HOLLYWOOD!" So, then he meats the dictator David Blackman, who by the way, is the only one carrying a cross over his neck the entire time - a true Christian, played fantasticly by Robert Vaughan, in the studio. Felix bytes his middle finger, so David shows a wrapped and CEMENTED f* you everybody until the end of the film. Back at his house, Felix is euphorical about the film. He asks culley "writers, Culley, who wrote the Last tango?"
-beats me
-my god, none of us know who wrote the last tango
-i hated it. I never try to remember the names of the people who purpotrate something I hate.
-that's just it, I hated it too
-in my opinion, a discrectionary judgement
-but we're wrong, Culley! That's what they want! That's where it's at!
-It's been my experience that every time I think I know where something's at, it's usually somewhare else!
Then Julie bursts in, after Felix BOUGHT the film back for 16 mil $, bc Blackman refused him to reshoot
-Where is he?!
- aaaaahhhhh! I must warn you my hands are lethal weapons!
- So is your God deam fountain pen! 16 mil, you maniac, you LUNATIC! Half of that money is mine!
- that entitles you to 50 % of the profit!
- that entitles ma to sue you for grand-theft, larseny, fraud, you son of a bitch!
- Sally Miles (that's Julie's character name) swears!
- give mye my money felix, give me my money, or ..I will KILL you!
- Sally Miles killes!
she takes her Oscar and throws it at him, who ducks, so it goes through a closed window straight into the Pacific ocean.
- oh, ****!
- Sally miles says '****'! 300, 400 mil at the box office! Peter Pan is dead! Long live Gillain West (that's SALLY'S character name in Night Wind) NYMPHOMANIAC EXECUTIVE! Not since Griffith, not since jones, we'll make motion picture history! AH! A monumental testiment to man's immorality! A celluloid prophecy of the hollocaust to come!
... And in the mean time Robert Webber who was accidentally drugged by the doctor trying to drug Felix when he went berzerk, wakes up sick of reaction to the drug a room above...
Felix: - For God did NOT spare the angels who sinned, but casted them DOWN to hell, and saved NOAH, an aged person, a preacher of rightciousness, bringing THE FLOOD upon the world of the UNGODLY!
BUUUUUUAAAHHH! Through the whole Felix made when he was trying to kill himself.
I hope I didn't overdo it with the spoilers, so I'll stop here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.B._%28film%29
I decided this because it's a special one for me, it's controversial and not all that very well known, so it might be interesting.
In 1968 Blake did a flick called Darling Lili, sort of a Mary Poppins thing which flopped horribly, both critically and financially. I know he's been at war with Hollywood all his life, but still managed to redeem himself receiving an honorary Oscar. (With his acceptance speech) So this film is his revenge on Hollywood, depicting it for what it is - a brutal machinery of dictatorial studio executives, directors and frustrated actors, but in a Pink Panther sort of way.
It begins with an opening crawl saying Felix Farmer, who actually represents Blake, and played ELECTRIFYINGLY by Richard Mulligan, who was very succesfull and loved by everyone did a film Night Wind, the most ambitious and expensive film ever, which flopped. So, Night Wind is actually Darling Lili in S. O. B. Studio executives were very upset because they lost a lot of money... and Felix lost his mind.
At the beginning an actor gets a heart attack while jogging on the beach right next to Farmer's house and dies instantly. For the 1st half of the film they just walk by him, the only one who sits next to him and cares is a dog. We get to see the ocean throwing him again and again on the beach etc. They finally take him to the morgue only after the dog's had enough and bytes one of the people.
So, that's the sort of sarcasme which only gets worse and worse as the film progresses. Really, I've never seen anything darker.
Felix is completely out of his mind in the begining, not having said a word ever since the flop. He tries to kill himself 4 times. Firts, by gas from his limousine, but the butler comes along, and accidentaly pushes the pedale, so it ends in the ocean. Second, he falls on a gossip collumnist while trying to hang himself, which leaves him completely unharmed (physically), and sends her to a hospital with 5 broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. Third, he puts his head in the oven, but is interrupted by a couple who collapse on him while doing it during a party that was meant to cheer him up, but instead turned into an orgy. And finally, he tries to kill himself with a gun blowing off his head, but a hooker gives him a blow job and an idea - he'll turn Night wind into a 4 hours pornographic epic. So, he immidiately bursts into a room where the director Culley, played greatly by William holden in his last performance, is shagging another hooker. "SEX, CULLEY! WE'LL GIVE THEM A 4H 300 MILLION DOLLAR PORNOGRAPHIC EPIC! HAHA! WE'LL F* THE ENTIRE HOLLYWOOD!" So, then he meats the dictator David Blackman, who by the way, is the only one carrying a cross over his neck the entire time - a true Christian, played fantasticly by Robert Vaughan, in the studio. Felix bytes his middle finger, so David shows a wrapped and CEMENTED f* you everybody until the end of the film. Back at his house, Felix is euphorical about the film. He asks culley "writers, Culley, who wrote the Last tango?"
-beats me
-my god, none of us know who wrote the last tango
-i hated it. I never try to remember the names of the people who purpotrate something I hate.
-that's just it, I hated it too
-in my opinion, a discrectionary judgement
-but we're wrong, Culley! That's what they want! That's where it's at!
-It's been my experience that every time I think I know where something's at, it's usually somewhare else!
Then Julie bursts in, after Felix BOUGHT the film back for 16 mil $, bc Blackman refused him to reshoot
-Where is he?!
- aaaaahhhhh! I must warn you my hands are lethal weapons!
- So is your God deam fountain pen! 16 mil, you maniac, you LUNATIC! Half of that money is mine!
- that entitles you to 50 % of the profit!
- that entitles ma to sue you for grand-theft, larseny, fraud, you son of a bitch!
- Sally Miles (that's Julie's character name) swears!
- give mye my money felix, give me my money, or ..I will KILL you!
- Sally Miles killes!
she takes her Oscar and throws it at him, who ducks, so it goes through a closed window straight into the Pacific ocean.
- oh, ****!
- Sally miles says '****'! 300, 400 mil at the box office! Peter Pan is dead! Long live Gillain West (that's SALLY'S character name in Night Wind) NYMPHOMANIAC EXECUTIVE! Not since Griffith, not since jones, we'll make motion picture history! AH! A monumental testiment to man's immorality! A celluloid prophecy of the hollocaust to come!
... And in the mean time Robert Webber who was accidentally drugged by the doctor trying to drug Felix when he went berzerk, wakes up sick of reaction to the drug a room above...
Felix: - For God did NOT spare the angels who sinned, but casted them DOWN to hell, and saved NOAH, an aged person, a preacher of rightciousness, bringing THE FLOOD upon the world of the UNGODLY!
BUUUUUUAAAHHH! Through the whole Felix made when he was trying to kill himself.
I hope I didn't overdo it with the spoilers, so I'll stop here.
But that's not a complaint about the actual movie itself. The movie is awesome. 
, Brandan is as funny as ever and also shows his emotional side, Christopher gives a nut-like performance and Sissy plays the wife/mother role to perfection. 
