CFTP Presents: Colossus And The Amazon Queen

Easily the most sexist movie we've ever riffed, and considering the terribly exploitative movies we've done that's really saying something.  The story follows two guys fresh from the recently concluded Trojan Wars; one (Colossus) is a muscle-bound super dude that has an Achilles head, the other is a cunning con artist.  After emerging as the champion of the "beat the living daylights out of everyone" competition in the Olympic Games, Colossus (pronounced Glokus most of the time) finds himself tricked by his friend into a potentially well-paying job on some mysterious island.  After their employers dupe them into eating drugged food, they are abandoned to their true fate: they are to be slaves for the Amazons!  Bickering, backstabbing, double-backstabbing, pirates, hammy gay stereotypes, convoluted plots, a sacred "girdle", jousting, misogyny, bigotry, failed satire, sexual harassment, bad slapstick, and all around stupidity ensue!  And these Amazon women?  They're basically Amazon Women in name only, secretly longing for men to come and sweep them off of their feet.  Really quite awful.  I think Jim said it best: "It's like every single HR Sexual Harassment Video interbred until you were left with the single, solitary, most offensive-to-all-lifeforms 90 minutes of film."

I found myself in a conundrum with this poster.  The movie calls out for a style similar to the style I used for the "She Gods of Shark Reef" poster, but I had JUST done that poster, I didn't want to repeat myself, and on top of that I wanted to give the Amazons SOME dignity back.  So, I went more for a 300-esque style, using the Amazonian uniform and weapon designs from the movie, but taking them a bit more seriously.  You may notice the bee on the shield; I did that for a few reasons: for one bees are matriarchal in nature, for two I couldn't quite make out what the design on the shields were supposed to be in the movie, and three the bee design is a subtle reference to "Invasion of the Bee Girls", a movie that's surprisingly less sexist than this movie- oh, it's still terribly sexist, but not quite so much as this one.  The background was a bit tricky as I gave it little thought until I actually got around to making it.  After a great deal of filtering and toying around with various designs and stuff, this golden background that implies flying leaves kinda thing emerged and fit it quite well.

This episode can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU4zs1…