Subject: Zoff
I might have to watch 4 or 5 Indian movies to recover from this thing. In an Indian movie Prochnow wouldn't have spent the last 15 minutes of the film on display at a restaurant in his Fruit of the Looms being publicly humiliated. (Although I should add it wasn't all that humiliating, since no one seemed especially interested except the bad guys. It appeared to be a pretty normal evening for the regular patrons.) No, in an Indian movie he'd have learned his lesson by being punched so hard he'd fly over the top of a tree and then get squashed by a truck, which would have been much more proper and moral. Also considerably more attractive.
Where was I?
Well, first of all, LINDA, anybody who doesn't think Unternehmer is great cinema just hasn't seen Zoff yet, that's all. I didn't have a synopsis for this and frankly don't want one, unless one of you German fans is that bored and masochistic. There's basically no way to tell what's going on if you can't follow the dialog because, except for the underwear scene and a German shepherd and one slugfest, it's all talk. Best I can make of it is a simple rivalry over a ho who probably was too good for Prochnow's character. Actually, he gets the girl and isn't shot even once, so in that sense this movie is a dream come true... or if not a dream, then a 70's LSD flashback.
What I really thought was that watching this movie would have made me feel like I was spending a weekend at my grandmother's house, if there'd been more naked people running around my grandmother's house.
I took notes. Some of the highlights are:
2 bimbos undressing in a department store
voiceover while staring at building
Juergen & blonde chick
bowling alley
fight in the bathroom
girls on a bus
discussion w/some people
walking down the street
they get some coins
eating
pinball
in a car
some people in a park
german shepherd
motorcycles
Well... there was a whole lot more, but that's enough excitement for one evening.
Oog....
Subject: zoff, oh me oh my
That odd sound you heard not too long ago was my jaw hitting the table. I'm just going to pretend that I never saw that and move on with my life.