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...Thinking Man's Porn: glossy photographs of beautiful women masturbating over captions that say something like "My interests are sky-diving and neuro-surgery and I need a gentle, intelligent man who knows how to make it!" With this audience in mind, Guccione set out to make movies, and Caligula, his first cinematic effort, is like his magazine: pretentious, exploitative, and enraging...
...Caligula is epic trash. The film's real vulgarity lies not so much in its gratuitous sex and violence as it does in the hugeness of the production and its arrogant pomposity. Forget the castration scene, the oozing entrails, the close-ups of women urinating, the slow motion vomiting, the fist rammed up the anus. The real obscenity is the amount of money spent on the gallons of fake blood and the tons of naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen...
Glen W. Bowersock '57, former associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, became embroiled in a legal scuffle of an entirely different nature. An expert on classical history, Bowersock took part in the obscenity trial of Penthouse magazine's sexually explicit film "Caligula...
Glen W. Bowersock '57, former associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, became embroiled in a legal scuffle of an entirely different nature. An expert on classical history, Bowersock took part in the obscenity trial of Penthouse magazine's sexually explicit film "Caligula...
Titanic does have a little of what the Supreme Court called "redeeming social value," though probably less than Caligula. There are five minutes of long, sweeping camera shots that show the ship resurfacing--a cleverly constructed 65-foot model that captures all the detail but somehow doesn't make the ship appear as looming as it did in real life. Jameson should have spent a few minutes exploring the ship, poking his camera into the staterooms and galleries that were the pride of the White Star Line when the ship set sail from Southhampton...