I don't think I like any film any more than I like Barbarella. Other
films from the period of the late 1960s I like a lot also, at times
as much or almost as much as I like Barbarella. These are movies
like Planet of the Apes, 2001, Easy Rider, and Walkabout. I can
watch the just-mentioned films along with Barbarella again and again
without tiring of them. These films seem to be made by people
possessing much greater maturity in some areas than might be
possessed by many of those making films during the last few years,
the latter perhaps being better suited to rapid money-making than to
making long-lasting classic films. Or maybe it isn't a problem with
film-making, but rather a problem with film audiences becoming
younger and younger in ideals compared with those of earlier
decades. The possibility is there that maybe societal factors
(including arts production) in development since the 60s have
effectively broken the narrow back of humanity, and what we possess
in terms of art objects since this breaking has been much more basic,
newer art objects meaning to heal us in some way rather to please our
former sensibility.

In some way we should be preparing and looking forward to some future
time period of mass high-quality art production and more of an
ordinary quality to our experience of art objects.

For these reasons a remake of Barbarella may not be so
straightforward in conception, a better alternative might be to make
a good action movie with a female combat hero, with this featuring
under the Barbarella name, rather than a film that not many people
would watch that would be very similar to the 60s original.

Evan