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Inside Deep Throat
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Inside Deep Throat The 2005 documentary about the 1972 porn classic Deep Throat is a sad and funny trip down the culture war memory lane. Linda Lovelace had an impressive ability to deep throat a large penis attached to Harry Rheems. They both suffered for their roles! She died penniless in 2002 car crash and he became an alcoholic and was prosecuted for acting! She made $1200 and he made $250, while the mob and others made millions! And the VHS and DVD porn industry got started. I prefer the real thing to watching; I think porn is often boring so not my thing, but interesting that so many find it so interesting. The false ideas people get from porn is probably not useful and the feminist objections seem incorrect to me. Still this documentary is interesting and worth a viewing: Inside Deep Throat (2005) reviw by Shawn Levy In art, as in geography, you've got to explore the frontiers so that you can identify the territory with certainty. "Deep Throat," the infamous 1972 pornographic blockbuster, is one of those extremes. And "Inside 'Deep Throat,' " the latest documentary from the fellows behind "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" and "Party Monster," is a deliriously entertaining field report from a historical moment when porn darned near became mainstream. At the end of the 1960s, pornographic film transformed from an underground predilection to a mass cultural phenomenon and, some believe, a nearly high art. Porn films such as "I Am Curious (Yellow)," "Behind the Green Door" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" became crossover hits not only with coastal sophisticates but with audiences all over the country. And regular feature films such as "Midnight Cowboy," "Satyricon" and "Women in Love" began availing themselves of the license offered by that success to depict adult sexuality more frankly. No film symbolized this phenomenon more than "Deep Throat," an hourlong feature shot by sleazy director Gerard Damiano for less than $25,000. Starring a troubled young actress known as Linda Lovelace and a goofball actor known as Harry Reems, the film became notorious for the impressive sex act that gave it its title. It became a monster hit, with an estimated worldwide gross of more than $25 million. And it became a lightning rod for governmental efforts to censor the porn business and for feminist thinkers who equated all porn with abuse of women everywhere. "Inside 'Deep Throat' " captures all of that controversy, a lot of skin and private parts, and some very funny material -- not necessarily germane, but nevertheless diverting. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato do more than just celebrate the sensation around the film. They look at the business of sex films, the lives and fates of the people who made "Deep Throat" and the resonance that the film had as a cultural symbol of liberty and/or excess. They reveal how the fortune the film generated found its way not to the stars or filmmakers but to the Mafia. Their interview subjects include Damiano and Reems (Lovelace died in 2002), several people involved with distributing the film, prosecutors who attacked them all, and witnesses and commentators including Erica Jong, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Hugh Hefner, Alan Dershowitz and Oregon State University professor Jon Lewis. If the documentary is authoritative in some senses, it's glib in others. For instance, the narration, read by Dennis Hopper, is unfailingly trite. And the filmmakers' contempt for prosecutors who relentlessly pursued Reems as a racketeer -- it's a long story -- is laid on rather thickly, if deservedly. Despite these lapses, the chief impression you get from "Inside 'Deep Throat' " is of bubbly fun. For Bailey and Barbato, sexual liberation, even in the form of a cheap porn film, is not a heated front of the culture wars but a cause for celebration and delight. If their<b> hedonism </font></b>makes their film a little slight, it also provides viewers a merry, randy ride. |
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I saw this movie in 1972, I was 20 years old at the time. Dang, I'm old.... 
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An oldie but a goodie... Linda had a great ability to deep throat without gagging. A real good cocksucker, and that is a compliment.
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