Hey Paul, did it ever occur to you that maybe your movie just stinks?
Naaawww, it's George Bush's and Joe McCarthy's fault:
Paul Verhoeven, director of the first "Basic Instinct" (which scored $353 million world-wide) as well as the widely ridiculed "Showgirls" (now regarded as something of a camp classic), attributes the genre's demise to the current American political climate.
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States," said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends."
Scribe Nicholas Meyer, who was an uncredited writer on 1987's seminal sex-fuelled cautionary tale "Fatal Attraction," agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement.
"We're in a big puritanical mode," he said. "Now, it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not 'Are you a communist?' but 'Have you ever put sex in a movie?'"
Paul Verhoeven, director of the first "Basic Instinct" (which scored $353 million world-wide) as well as the widely ridiculed "Showgirls" (now regarded as something of a camp classic), attributes the genre's demise to the current American political climate.
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States," said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends."
Scribe Nicholas Meyer, who was an uncredited writer on 1987's seminal sex-fuelled cautionary tale "Fatal Attraction," agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement.
"We're in a big puritanical mode," he said. "Now, it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not 'Are you a communist?' but 'Have you ever put sex in a movie?'"
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Waaaaaaa! George W. Bush made people not like my movie!!!
So hilarious.
He is so right. Why just yesterday I was watching the Congressional hearings where movie makers were being denounced and forced to turn on one another. Many have been jailed and more will soon join them. A blacklist is circulating.
Yes, "Better dead than sexy movie maker" is the new chant in Washington.
Hilarious.
One of the many ironies of this little whine-fest is that "Fatal Attraction" is arguably quite puritannical in its view of sex (or rather, adultery). And it may have sex in it, but does anyone really think it's a sexy movie?
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