Posted on 10/18/2012 6:42:55 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, has died aged 60.
"She died during the night during her sleep," her agent, Marieke Verharen, told the AFP news agency.
The actress, who had cancer, was admitted to hospital in July after suffering a stroke.
Emmanuelle, which told the story of a sexually promiscuous housewife, spawned numerous sequels and played in a cinema on the Champs-Elysees for 11 years.
Released in 1974, the soft-focus French film was one of the first erotic movies to be shown in mainstream cinemas.'
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Amen to that.
And I think her understudy got really upset over dropping her hot dog.
My grandfather’s favorite soft-porn movie.............
Seriously. He had it on VHS.
Putting her in the context of her times, much of her fan base were women, for a very good reason.
At the time, the portrayal of women in the movies was along the lines of “Rat Pack Sleaze”: drunken, stale-cigarette-smoke reeking old men lusting after stupid and flabby women whose only potential in life was to be secretaries, then bloated, alcoholic suburban brood mares until the children were raised, then nothing.
More than anything else, she portrayed a women’s fantasy, that they could travel the world, seeing and doing all sorts of interesting things, with a handsome and wealthy husband or boyfriend who would let them (and fund their) doing what they wanted to do.
The proof of this as fantasy in her early movies was the amount of time spent shopping and traveling in the movie, compared to nudity or sex.
A decade later, a former pornographic movie actress created her own film company, Femme Productions, to “make the kind of porn that women like”, for similar reasons, that women wanted their own pornography, and didn’t much care for the pornography that men preferred.
I get your point. But I and nobody here is celebrating the lady, merely noting the passing of a famous person.
I get your point about the sexualisation of society, but sex is a wonderful thing and should be celebrated. The balance is having a society which celebrates sex, but has sex in an appropriate moral and cultural box so to speak.
A society which regards sex as immoral and the human body as dirty is as screwed up a society where anything goes. NEITHER is at all healthy. A healthy society strikes a balance.
There is nothing wrong with sex and sexuality on film or in any art form, as long as it is not overly explicit (except for porn which is honest in its way and makes clear that it is explicit and is for adults only) and is clearly for an adult audience. And is part of the story/art form, and not done purely for its own sake, a tired attempt to shock.
BTW, thats a fine Christian attitude you have to someone who has died (relatively) young of cancer. Perhaps you should ask your God why he allows people to die in terrible pain of such afflictions. Seems God allowing cancer to exist offends you less than an old 70’s softporn film.
Ian McShane is Lovejoy ... his best work, IMHO.
RIP.
Constant showing of these movies earned skinemax their nickname. Not many people in this world can say that.
I remember the Emmanuelle flicks on Cinemax late Friday night/early Saturday morning.
There’s worse people still walking around, breathing, and scheming to wreck the country in worse ways than this lady ever did.
Shame that she died.
“Promiscuity, moral decay, and cultural rot” have been with us - and every society - throughout history. She didn’t start it. It’s up to each individual person to chose the path they take in life.
Living in a society that values freedom and liberty comes with the price of occasionally being exposed to things you disagree with.
She was a hottie. RIP.
You bet!
I’ll give her a tribute fap.
NICE!!!
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