Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the Spanish call olla podrida, or rotten pot, a mess. His brutal father dies, literally, rabid. His imbecile brother, whose ears were chewed off by a hog, drowns in an oil vat. Rosario, his sister, is the only one Pascual even begins to love. She is a whore practically from puberty. His feelings for her are more than slightly incestuous. When her lover seduces Pascual's wife, Pascual kills...
...point, the lovers find themselves in a motel room. An unsavory relationship is being loudly consummated in the neighboring cabin, and Miss Hugueny gets upset. "Aren't you going to get a bottle? Isn't that what they do now?" she screams. "You think I'm a whore!" "You said it, I didn't," Fonda replies stupidly, and gets justifiably slapped. Latter, she asks tentatively, "What if I were pregnant?" and Fonda answers, "Get serious." What sensitivity...
...just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste; 5) a ragman who waxes indignant when an elegant lady clad in a filmy black negligee ("Are you in mourning?") calls him up five flights, all for sex. This last fellow cooperates, naturally, but goes away grumbling over the time...
Then there's the de-aging sequence of Katyusha, the heroine, dissolving (like Orson Well's Mrs. Kane) from tough whore to well-bred ten-year-old. And Nekhlvudov, the hero, trudging the paths of a Siberian village--photographed with the flavor of Italian neo-realism. And many other cinematic "quotes" which are appropriate and effective, not the kind of private joke they seem to be with Truffaut and Godard, for example...
...birthplace seeking revenge. She offers a fortune to Guellen and its citizens in exchange for the life of one man, now a local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made me a whore; now I will turn the world into a brothel," declares Madame Zachanassian. When the horrified villagers reject her offer, she smiles coolly: "I can wait...