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Exploitation with Bo Derek.

OK, I know I've said this before but, from now on, no more superhero films, I promise. The hype has served us well enough so we can finally move on to what made our blog what it is today: Exploitation films! So far, we've been into a huge selection from the most relevant to the most obscure cult exploitation flicks you can think of. Today we enter the career of a promising early 80's bombshell, whose legacy lives on in the very few films she performed as the leading beauty actress. Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in many years, Bo Derek enters our cult films selection!

10 is a 1979 adult comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starred by Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews & Bo Derek and follows the story of George Webber (Moore) a famous composer piano player who's facing a midlife crisis torn between his growing love for Samantha Taylor (Andrews), his long time actress girlfriend, and the illusion of a mysterious perfect woman that goes by the name of Jenny Hanley (Derek) Although nostalgia, and weak memory can play tricks on everyone, 10, is not as erotic as you may think, and that's ironic because Derek's sex symbol status is attributed to this film. Nevertheless, her later movies would make it up to sexploitation fans and her blonde sex bombshell status would live up to tell the tale today in 2016, 37 years after her golden debut. 

Torn between old and new.

Well, let's pick new.

But, who is Bo Derek? Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins; November 20, 1956) is an American film and television actress, movie producer, and model perhaps best known for her breakthrough role in the 1979 film 10. The film also launched a bestselling poster for Derek in a swimsuit, and subsequently she became one of the most popular sex symbols in the 1980s. She was directed by husband John Derek in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), Bolero (1984) and Ghosts Can't Do It (1989), none of which were critically well-received. However, they feature plenty of Derek's anatomy, so watching them despite the critics is still pleasant on the eye. Further reviews of her infamous filmography will be soon added to our blog. 

10 is a fantastic example of what exploitative marketing can do to a mediocre film that hasn't aged very well. Although posters, ads and trailers suggest this film has Bo Derek all over, that is far from the truth. Her role is barely that of supporting cast and she's not in the nude enough time. Actually, she's briefly nude in a couple of very quick scenes (one being with the lights out) She doesn't get much dialog either. Webber (the main character) spends his days facing a boring midlife crisis and deciding whether is worth to be in a relationship that is more intellectual than physical. In the meantime, his neighbor surely knows how to throw a party, as he's constantly surrounded by beautiful naked women willing to have sex at any time. Webber, prefers to sit back and drink while watching the spectacle through his telescope. 

A victim of the blue balls disease.

Holy shit! They're going bukake!

The haunting image of the mysterious young bride (Derek) haunts him long enough as to find her whereabouts via her father (who happens to be Webber's dentist) Soon enough, he's miserable & drunk enough to fly to the Virgin Islands in order to find the girl of his wet dreams.  The problem is, she's married to Flash Gordon!!! (well, to Sam J. Jones) So, will the girl choose an old miserable musician over a young muscular stallion? 

The problem 10 has, is that there are many movies dealing with the same "old man's midlife crisis, old man's find young fuckable girl, old man's cum all over her body" and with a modest budget have accomplished outstanding results while being very straight to the point in filming terms. 10 seems to try too hard to move itself a step above the sexploitation films from the 70's. Trying to make a clever sexploitation film can be a very bad idea. In other words, 10 is about a man who is horny as hell, and wants badly to fuck younger more attractive women without the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship burdens because his girlfriend doesn't seem to be too interested in a good old fuck. The story of a smart successful wealthy musician living in a world of sophisticated boredom makes no sense. I mean, if he's wealthy enough, he should be throwing sex parties like his neighbor every weekend! 

Your neighbor knows better.

Yes, he does.

So, if Mr. Webber is so desperate to get a good fuck, he simply needs to go to his neighbor, knock the door and say the magic words "I'm famous & wealthy and need a good fuck" and problem solved! Of course, that would mark the end of the movie and Bo Derek wouldn't get much attention, wouldn't she? 

So, as the onion thin plot develops, our blue balls musician manages to get a room in the same hotel our newly wed sex bombshell is spending her honey moon weekend. However, Webber is an idiot, a multi millionaire loser who prefers to get wasted drinking every night while peeping tom his prey. Later, his blue balls disease becomes so painful he actually sees an opportunity to  talk to his blonde dream girl. Flash Gordon (her boyfriend) falls asleep on his surfboard while floating away deeper and deeper into the sea, so our resourceful hero, rents a boat and saves the boy! Reason enough to make Jenny (Derek) thank him for saving his adrift husband.  

C'mon Webber, let us take care of that cock for you.

So, do you girls spit or swallow?

Later that night, Webber pays a little visit to Jenny's (Room 420!) and is offered the chance of a lifetime: Dinner, marijuana and sex! His dreams are about to happen as Jenny reveals herself to be a very open minded person who enjoys fucking different men because it's good enough for her!  and nothing could make her hornier than fucking while listening to Ravel's Bolero which  remains one of the most expensive songs to use for film and TV to date; the rights cost more than $25,000. According to SACEM, the French equivalent of ASCAP, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than any other French composer! 

Finally, when things are actually looking bright for Webber, he turns off a good fuck because he thinks Jenny wants a serious relationship with him instead of a one night stand. While she reveals, she's interested only in casual sex, he turns her down and decides to leave! Man! you fucking read that right! the point he was trying to make during the whole movie gets completely wasted by the man himself! Jesus fucking Christ! Jenny was all nude and wet, ready to get a big load of jizzy love and everything goes to waste because our lead character is only interested if she commits herself to a serious relationship! what a bummer! what a let down! what a major disappointment!  

I'm hungry for cum, do you have some for me?

All I want is a good casual fuck.

Overall, 10 is a film that didn't live up to the myth. Derivative, boring, pretentious and with a plot that is completely screwed up by the end of the movie where our lead character undoes everything he was looking for during the whole movie. This movie isn't sexy either, there are too few sex scenes and nudity isn't enough too. Bo Derek's debut is deserving of a big meh! she neither has enough lines to say, nor she is as nude as publicity stunts lead you to think. If you want to see her in the nude and in hotter scenes, watch her later films. 10 is like a PG rated sexploitation film you could easily watch in a sunday afternoon with your grandparents and nephews and no one would be shocked. Unfortunately, 10 is now nothing but a dated forgettable film, and considering this the biggest Bo Derek's film, it can only mean that she is also dated and going straight to the annals of oblivion sooner than later.

10 in one word? Over rated (well, that's two words)  Expect reviews of her later films simply because they were hotter and featured a lot more sex & gratuitous nudity.

Here's the movie trailer: