Roberta Vasquez as evil babe Pantera in Picasso Trigger

Movie Name : Picasso Trigger
Actress Name : Roberta Vasquez
Character Name : Pantera
Year : 1988

In 1988 movie Picasso Trigger. Actress Roberta Vasquez plays as villainess Pantera. The footage in the start of the movie from the 80s is priceless..

Good movies from the 80s are special, it's like travelling to another world, entirely different experience with different rules, that's why the superhero genre started extremely popular, because it gave something like that, something unique, different experience with different rules, but if it ended became the norm in movies, it's no longer special, it's no longer unique, and the rules is no longer different, which is another interesting contradiction, any genre should always aim to be the norm, but should never be the norm, which is something you can learn from the story of Sekhmet, the first villainess, and the first vampire in human history, and also with The Myth of Sisyphus, even so Sekhmet was tasked with destroying humanity, she should try to do it, but never accomplish it, the same goes with Sisyphus, even tho he aim to be on top of the mountain, he never should stay there, but has to keep trying to climb the mountain, I'm sorry, those who call today movies and characters are better, give me a better character like that, or at least tell me why characters from point A to point B are better, how a story that was written thousands of years ago and was associated with art science and music, still relevant today? A character that shaped the world of ancient Egypt artistically, spiritually, culturally and scientifically for thousands of years!

We see our gorgeous villainess around 5 minutes mark..

At the start of the movie one of the characters made great remarks on art, basically what he said, the difference between art and artistic masterpiece is when you spend hours staring at paintings, while a good painting can be something you stare at for minutes, so when I say female villains are uncut gems, you who follow the blog know what I mean, what really matters are the villains, they are the masterpieced, they are the movie, for example, the only reason you would watch Double Impact is for Kara performed by Corinna Everson or maybe Moon performed by Bolo Yeung, but you will never watch it for Van Damme, like, this is a Corinna Everson and Bolo Yeung movie..

Two bad guys attacking good guys around 16 minutes, and I don't know who these people are.. I think they were agents or something!

We then get a nudity scene, I mean, It's better than being bored..

It's interesting that this movie was made in the 80s, and drones still playing a big part in it..

Finally, we see our villainess around 27 minutes 😍😍😍..

Seeing these beautiful footage of landscapes from the 80s is priceless.. Like, green that looks green, blue that looks blue, now every movie looks grey!!

We see Pantera again around 30 minutes, and god, I would die for her..

This poem by Karim Al-Iraqi:

"She told all her friends

This is the one all women want and paying no attention to them

I bet you..

He will go around me like a ring on my finger

He would go crazy if he saw someone with me

I will make him in weaker than weak

And will step on him like I step on autumn leaves

The tyrant

Woe to me, you tyrant!

Woe to me from the dagger that stabbed affection

Woe to me, how much I slept deluded on that pillow

Woe to me since the dawn of a day that I wish I had never lived after

You are the one I called the queen among women

Be hard on my heart and tear it apart if it offends

I am suffering from being killed as a wreck

Far be it from me to think about revenge"

The poem basically two scenes, the first part the one he loves conspiring with her friends against him, and the second part is him expressing how much he loved her, also calling her a tyrant is a metaphor of how beautiful she is, like a tyrant who want people not only think about them, her beauty is tyrannical, that it force people to think about her, it torture people with her beauty, even causing people go hungry and denying them eating by losing their appetite thinking about her, basically tyranny in art, the world of evil and villains, is contradictory to what it means in real world, that's why this poem is so strong and one of the greatest poem on the contradictory nature of love..

Seeing Pantera for a decent screen time is some of the greatest moment you would spend watching a movie, you never get a character that you can never see enough of, as with a villainess..

Around 40 minutes, we get boat chase, and a gunfight, I love how Andy Sidaris kept experimenting new concepts, RIP, Andy Sidaris, you are missed 💔💔💔..

It must be hell to film this boat chase scene in the 80s..

Whenever Pantera isn't on screen, we either get nudity scene or gunfight, this movie doesn't wanna get you bored LOL..

The dialogue in this movie is so cheesy in a fun way..

This is funny, around 58 minutes, he's saying "We attach the explosive" and he basically putting the batteries in the toy car, but most people probably didn't know how the batteries of this toy car looked like in the 80s..

Despite how cheesy the dialogue is, but it also has some very smart lines that it feels like the writer is breaking the fourth wall and speaking to the audience with a double meaning metaphorical form, like around 1 hour mark, when the professor tells the hero, "Catch, That'll give you a leg up." and the hero replies "You're a master of your art, Professor.", then the professor replies "Killing is an art form.", and it's absolutely true, without it you don't get horror, action, and even romance like Titanic, The Notebook, and Atonement, it's about how to use it in the story.. You may assume that there are two main characters the writer used to self-insert, the one at the start of the movie who talked about the painting, who got two minutes and was killed, which is also a smart decision, because you wouldn't remember anything he said except what he said about the painting and you would remember such character, the other is the professor, none of them are main characters, with the main players the writer stuck to the lore and focus on making immersive characters, you don't see that in modern movies, modern movies they self-insert in everything, making movies unwatchable, that's the difference between a professional filmmaker and artist and whatever we have ended up with today.. Anyway, the idea of self-insert work as long as it doesn't jeopardize the structure of the movie, because basically if you ended up self-inserting yourself in an action movie, and having a main character, you would probably end with boring and bland character, and if it's a main character, you end up changing the genre of the movie and basically destroying it, this is what I saw watching Masters of the Universe, it can work in comedy, because basically you can be joking IRL and use the jokes from your life in a movie, but when done in horror, action, adventure, you risk destroying not just a movie, but anything that can be built on it, so respect.

You know it would be interesting if Richard Gecko in From Dusk Till Dawn was a self-insert of Quentin Tarantino, like him falling in love with Santanico Pandemonium..

LOL, that was funny around 1 hour 8 minutes..

We get a dummy around 1 hour 10 minutes, I miss dummies..

You won't watch this movie for the story, yet, it's so fun to watch, they now have a motorcycles fight.. It's basically like that, the movie need nudity and fights, the rest of the work is focused on experimenting film making, which is kind of awesome, it's not like a lazy movie, it deliver what you expect and with these scenes you really see the talent behind the movie.

While with Masters of the Universe all I saw was company office and social media data gathering, like, a dumb fun movie, need brilliant people behind it to make it a dumb fun movie..

If you think about it, the masterpiece in the movie, Picasso Trigger's painting, basically represent villains in the movie, especially Salazar performed by John Aprea, RIP, John Aprea, thank you, we love you, and miss you 💔💔💔..

Basically, the painting isn't the painting, the painting is the villains, interesting nonsensical contradictory phrase that make sense in a nonsensical universe..

Just to know, when Andy Sidaris made this movie, he had 20 years experience of movie making, and it shows on how awesome the movie looks, a movie that was made in the 80s, and the character he choose and focused on was the main antagonist, and casted non other than John Aprea from The Godfather Part II to play it..

We finally see Pantera around 1 hour 20 minutes soon after her final confrontation began around 1 hour 25 minutes..

You can watch Pantera's compilation here..

Favorite Quotes

"Pantera: It's amazing how just

a few million dollars allows them to ignore

that the Picasso Trigger is actually your code name.

Salazar: Art has many faces.

I need it this time to fulfill my dreams with no inhibitions, no obstacles. I want you to share this freedom I have.

Pantera: You sound like a man

who's nearing his end.

Salazar: No, nearing a new beginning.

Pantera: You'll be around forever.