Word: explicitness
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Produced by Penthouse magazine, "Caligula" depicts the reign of a Roman emperor who ruled for a brief period and who was infamous for his exploitative and deviant sexual practices, which the film shows in explicit detail...
Bowersock said yesterday that ancient historians often ignore the period of Roman history which "Caligula" portrays in sexually explicit detail "because it's so unpleasant." He added, "If there's one lesson to be learned from this film, it's that it is not good to ignore a historical period because it is unpleasant. Sometimes one needs to be reminded of these things...
Mostly because Jagger is not only looking to get away from women qua women, but from women qua metaphor. This nexus is made explicit on the next track, an acid blues number called "Down in the Hole." When you're down in the hole, there's nothing to protect you from the world of sin, sickness and insanity: "Looking for cover, you will find that there is nowhere nowhere nowaaaaargh to go." Jagger is talking about nothing less than the great primordial woman-hole; in "Down in the Hole" he makes clear what he's been implying all along...
...kiss: he has built his obsession into a career. De Palma's last seven films, from Sisters in 1973 to the current Dressed to Kill, have been informed by Hitchcock's work until some of them begin to look like remakes. Dressed to Kill is the most explicit of these homages: that shower (in a Long Island home instead of in the Bates Motel), those blonds (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen instead of Janet Leigh and Vera Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo...
...Hill's first explicit western, and yet another version of the legends of the James and Younger brothers and their gang of bank and train robbers. It features fraternal casting: James and Stacy Keach as the Jameses; David, Keith and Robert Carradine as the Youngers; Randy and Dennis Quaid as Clell and Ed Miller; Christopher and Nicholas Guest as the Fords, who, of course, done pore Jesse in. All of them turn in finely controlled performances. David Carradine gets the luck of the lines. Almost everything he says has a nice dry wit about...