The funniest thing is that all those Hollywood celebrities actually believed Bob Guccione, a pornographer with a publicly-known piss fetish, when he told them that his movie was going to be a respectable mainstream movie and would not have porn in it. (Then, to no one's surprise, he edited in porn anyway.)
Pretty sure it was originally a legit movie that ran out of money and the pornographer paid to finish it and inserted the porn.
Before anybody gets their hopes up, no, none of the main actors or actresses performed in any of the pornographic scenes. Those were shot using run-of-the-mill porn actors of the time (whoever was cheapest, really). It was all spliced in later to great controversy (lol, j/k, nobody cared).
Well it killed Malcolm McDowell career, so he cared. Fortunately he got enough work in B movies.
Don't forget about the Caligula knockoffs by Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei. D'Amato's was hardcore, whilst Mattei's was softcore.
I dispute that. Both Blue Thunder and Star Trek: Generations were box office hits. Tank Girl was the one that sunk McDowell's career.
Porn director Tinto Brass.
It's been ages since I've watched that (and have no interest in enduring that endless shouting match again to check) but was there actual sex in that movie? I thought the only "extreme" thing in it was when the fatass cross-dresser picked up some dog shit and ate it on camera.
Yes. There is sex and a (incest) blowjob along with a dude gyrating and whistling from his asshole.
lol ... there was a part of me screaming not to ask the question. I owe that part of me a drink as an apology.
I appreciate John Waters specifically because he didn't get the train rolling but he ripped off the brake handle and sent the thing careening right off the end of the tracks and into the gorge.
Nah I don't blame him at all, he's a fucking riot even if his actual "work" is dreadful to my tender virgin eyes & ears. I dislike homosexuals on general principle (just because of what they represent and their insistence (as a group, not specifically just him) on shoving it down everyone's throats) but as a human being he's quite the character and very hard to hate. Flamboyancy aside he seems relatively down-to-earth and good humored about things (you pretty much have to be to produce/direct the kind of stuff he's done) and that's exceedingly rare to find in filmmaking.
Ever seen Hitler Reincarnated as Caligula, aka Last Orgy of the Third Reich? That clip is, unfortunately, a mashup of the infamous "dinner scene" with Downfall, but it gives you more than enough context. Skip to about 1:34.
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