chiangmai
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Post by chiangmai on Dec 25, 2021 5:50:30 GMT 7
Melvyn Bragg once challenged the wild director Ken Russell to make a film so offensive even Russell would have it banned. He obliged. I'd never heard of this and being a bit of a Ken Russel fan I had to seek it out. It does live up to expectations, it's only a short movie but not bad for the man whose movie The Devils traumatized me and Ms Right back in 1970. File it under quirky.
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Post by rubl on Dec 25, 2021 8:14:46 GMT 7
Oliver Reed may have liked some of the movie, or did it drive him to drink, drink more and so on?
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chiangmai
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Post by chiangmai on Dec 25, 2021 8:42:15 GMT 7
We saw this in Leicester Square London when it premiered, we had to go watch cartoons in a small cinema in Piccadilly afterwards, just to get it out of our heads.
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Post by AyG on Dec 25, 2021 8:58:36 GMT 7
It rather reminds me of The Producers, making a stage show that was so distasteful it was guaranteed to be a flop to defraud the show's investors.
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Post by chiangmai on Dec 25, 2021 13:02:47 GMT 7
In the early 1970's in San Diego, a local cinema would hold midnight movies on Friday night. They always showed really odd, if not totally bizarre movies. I don't think they really cared what movies they showed because the audience was always too stoned to care plus the object of the exercise was to advertise the sister theatre which was a porn movie house. Each movie was shown in two parts with an intermission that contained previews of, ahem, coming attractions at the sister theatre. One movie we saw consisted of a cowboy in the desert, walking towards a fort whilst another cowboy walked away from it, in the opposite direction, nothing was said throughout the entire movie. The camera moved from the cowboys head to endless minutes of watching his boots as he walked, the scene then changed to the other cowboy, this went on for a seriously long time. Being very stoned, most people just sat there and took all of this in. Eventually, the intermission would arrive and without warning, the scene changed from cowboys boots in the desert to that of some nubile young thing in the process of engulfing a rather large erection. It would take about 30 seconds for the scene change to register with the highly stoned audience, at which point a massive cheer would rise up and the entire theatre took on a totally different persona. Wierd stuff indeed.
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Post by AyG on Dec 25, 2021 18:16:30 GMT 7
some nubile young thing in the process of engulfing a rather large erection. His own, or somebody else's? (Not, to be honest, that it makes much difference.)
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Post by smokie36 on Jan 7, 2022 15:17:09 GMT 7
That is <duck>ing brilliant!
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