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Stepford Wives
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Description

In this remake of the 1975 classic, the women in the idyllic town of Stepford are actually robots.

Well, they're supposed to be robots. At least that's what they were in the original version of the film, I think, even though I never saw it. But in this rather weakly put-together film, there is never any definite confirmation. In fact, there is conflict between whether the women are robots, or just humans with their bodies redesigned and their brains reprogrammed with nanochips. If they are humans, then how is one wife able to spit out a wad of money like a bank machine? And if they are robots, then in the end how do they undergo the process of "Restoring Original Personality", as the whiny computer voice says?

The director's intention becomes more obvious in the DVD, where the deleted scenes show obvious robotic activity (although this doesn't answer the questions of the previous paragraph). In fact, quite a few scenes were cut out. I can sort of see why: if the scenes were left in, the movie would be dorky. Now that the scenes are omitted, though, the movie is just vague and difficult to understand.

I'll try to post a picture of Bette Midler-bot from the deleted scenes.


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Bobbie Markowitz (Bette Midler), now turned into a robot, displays her sexual functions "Foreplay", "Intercourse", "Orgasm" and "Afterglow". Here, she is displaying "Afterglow", in which she opens up her torso to display cans of chilled beer which she would offer to her master. Did I mention that this was a stupid movie?




originally posted by anonymous on 2004-11-11, no edits, entryid=2207