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Blogs > warmandsexy52 > A Delicious Slice of Life

Remembering Sylvia Kristel and Emmanuelle  

warmandsexy52 72M
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10/19/2012 12:39 pm

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10/23/2012 1:44 pm
Remembering Sylvia Kristel and Emmanuelle



Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel died, aged 60, on Wednesday night after battling throat, oesophageal, liver and lung cancers. In July she was admitted to Hospital in Amsterdam following a stroke. So sad. Not a pleasant way to leave this mortal coil.

She made 50 movies, but she will always be remembered for her iconic role in Emmanuelle, the sexual adventures of a diplomat's wife in Thailand.

What people often forget now was how revolutionary this film was when it first came out in 1974. At first it was banned in Paris, but went on to run for eleven years at the Arc de Triomphe cinema in the Champs Elysee. 350 million people are estimated to have seen it.

It is possible to project innocence and sensuality at the same time. It's a beautiful and erotic quality that not everyone has. Sylvia managed to achieve precisely that. The film's director, Just Jaeckin said of her, "a wonderful woman, very pure, very innocent."

It was that, along with an exotic location, soft focus and tender love scenes (with a little mild kinkiness here and there) that created soft movie porn in the mainstream. Sylvia's enthusiasm and engagement, along with her genuine belief that she was acting in a "liberated film" that really made the movie what it was.

Unfortunately, type-casting, contractual obligations and a hard-nosed world exacted its toll on her, resulting in drug addiction, alcoholism and heavy smoking, which encumbered her for 20 years and almost certainly led to the tragic, untimely death of a genuine pioneer in softening social attitudes about our sexual selves.

The jungle was simply too hard and unforgiving a place for such a beautiful, fragile<b> butterfly.

</font></b>Farewell Sylvia. Remembering the part you've played in shifting our culture and contributing to people being just a little more at ease with their sexuality.{=}
warmandsexy52 72M
13158 posts
10/23/2012 1:44 pm
    Quoting lindoboy100:
    A truly beautiful woman, how sad.

    Her Emmanuelle film was my favourite 'secret' as a youngster, a cut above the rest, leaving just enough to the imagination.
Shared delights, my Scottish friend.


lindoboy100 61M
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10/23/2012 4:01 am

 A truly beautiful woman, how sad.

Her Emmanuelle film was my favourite 'secret' as a youngster, a cut above the rest, leaving just enough to the imagination.


warmandsexy52 72M
13158 posts
10/22/2012 4:24 am
    Quoting goodatpoetry2:
    Such a beauty! She should have had the world on a string, just on looks alone.
I agree. She shouldn't have died so young.

It's particularly sad when a contemporary icon leaves this mortal coil. It seems as though somehow life has cheated on her.


goodatpoetry2 74M
16552 posts
10/21/2012 3:09 pm

 Such a beauty! She should have had the world on a string, just on looks alone.


warmandsexy52 72M
13158 posts
10/21/2012 10:33 am
    Quoting sexysixties2:
    Really sad. She was incredibly beautiful in an almost untouchable way.
It is sad, and a reminder that the façade of a public image often conceals much behind it - in this case beauty concealing what must have been a lot of unhappiness.


warmandsexy52 72M
13158 posts
10/21/2012 10:30 am
    Quoting moonfire2u:
    This was my first introduction to porn...soft, beautiful, sensual and erotic...it was an experience made beautiful by her...
The alternative way back in the 70's was so unbelievably tacky. I think within the movie genre she played a major part in making porn erotica.


warmandsexy52 72M
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10/21/2012 10:28 am
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She played a large part in being so, and I do believe her personality and presence came through.


warmandsexy52 72M
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10/21/2012 10:26 am
    Quoting  :
It is a beautiful pic, isn't it? It was the main pic used to publicise Emmanuelle, but also the one she used on her autobiography.


warmandsexy52 72M
13158 posts
10/21/2012 10:25 am

 Oh my! I am sure you were touched by her style .... there was a classiness there!


warmandsexy52 72M
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10/21/2012 10:23 am
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I agree. She did have real screen presence - something that emanates from within, as with all good actors, but underrated herself, saying she was playing parts that were limited in dialogue. because of the softcore genre.


sexysixties2 106F
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10/20/2012 1:15 pm

 Really sad. She was incredibly beautiful in an almost untouchable way.
"Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age."

~~Anais Nin~~


moonfire2u 77F
2601 posts
10/20/2012 6:01 am

 This was my first introduction to porn...soft, beautiful, sensual and erotic...it was an experience made beautiful by her...


Stranger_inSpain 60F

10/19/2012 3:37 pm

 Oh I remember! My very first VHS erotic experience...


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