The 1966 Modesty Blaise film has a brand new cover for the Swedish DVD edition. I'm surprised they even made a DVD of this film, given how most Modesty fans loathe this film!
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| New Swedish DVD cover - not Monica Vitti! |
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| Back cover of Swedish DVD |
More surprising is the fact that the model on the front cover is NOT the actress in the film! Monica Vitti is shown on the back cover, but not the front. This seems to go with the 'misleading' theme, where the covers do make the film look quite good... IMO this is going to lead to many disappointed viewers! I think it would make more sense to stay with the original cover, which is at least somewhat in keeping with the spirit of the film.
Interesting that the English DVD advertizes the film as a "spy spoof" (which the film was not
intended to be) and plays up the "comic touches" (many of which also weren't intended). At least it doesn't mislead! - although I'm still surprised this film ever made it to DVD.
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| Original 1966 film poster |
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| New English DVD cover: "A spy spoof loaded with comic touches" |
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If only the film was as good as this new cover. The old saying, "You can't judge a book by it's cover".
That cover is advertising a film I'd like to see. Just, apparently, not the one on the included DVD ...
LOL - that got a genuine laugh out loud from me!
Call me a grumpy old purist, but why oh why did they take the fab Bob Peak poster artwork, and lob a less-than-impressive-photographic Modesty in the middle?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
B Smith
Monica Vitti as Modesty Blaise, Dean Martin as Matt Helm, Adam West as Batman, Jane Fonda as Barbarella.
It was the 1960s. Maybe everybody was on drugs.
LOL
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