5 Films That Would Win Oscars In A Bizarre Parallel Universe

4. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - Best Script

411180-tura_013_super Directed by horny old Boobs Meister Russ Meyer, Faster Pussycat! has a gigantic cult following which it richly deserves. The incredible Tura Satana (Varla) leads her two fellow go go dancing friends (Rosie and Billie) into the desert where they get caught up in a murder, kidnap, seductions a plenty and a hunt for an old, crippled, embittered pervert's money. The film flies along at a zippy pace and the three female leads are extremely pleasing on the eye with their well endowed chests. It is quite jarring to watch Satana kill a man with her bare hands but she is quite the antiheroine. In the end sequences you will be cheering her on, not the simpering brat she kidnapped and the wimpy dude who wouldn't shag her. The dialogue in the film is awesome and sounds like some mad 1960s beat prose on speed. Varla challenging a man to a race - "I never try anything, I just do it! Like I don't beat clocks, just people. Wanna try me?". "Here comes Lancelot charging to the finish! Three and a half seconds champ, you were great!" taunts Varla to the kidnapped girl's boyfriend whom she just trashed in a car race. "She's a cold one alright. More stallion than mare. Too much for one man to handle. But then you never can tell. She might just settle down with the right kind of halter" - the pervy old man sizing up Varla. Billie the blonde go go dancer: "I'm of the legal age for whiskey, voting and loving. Now the next election is two years away, and my love life aint getting much better so how about some of that one hundred percent!". A plastered Billie: "You know Tiny Tim, when I've had enough of this stuff it's been known to be passing out time! And it's just about passing out time!" *plonk* And Billie handing a beer to a pissed off Rosie: "Here Rosie baby! Pop the top before you blow your own!". Tarantino wishes he could write dialogue like this! You're not really 'cool' until you have watched this movie. It's sort of like the Citizen Kane of ultra cult cinema. For funky dialogue I award this picture Best Original Script. The writer must have been on some sort of unusual substances.
 
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!