tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post5689548629693181886..comments2023-10-23T00:04:35.356-04:00Comments on The Vault of Buncheness: CALIGULA (1979)Bunche (pop culture ronin)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11831085937894725459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-85473441662118710152007-10-25T10:43:00.000-04:002007-10-25T10:43:00.000-04:00I should have mentioned this in my other comment: ...I should have mentioned this in my other comment: the first porn I ever saw (at least, the first MOVING porn I ever saw) was a video tape with <I>Caligula</I> followed by <I>The Grafenberg Spot</I> (a fake squirting movie with Ginger Lynn and John Holmes). Needless to say, these two films did not give me a particularly realistic concept of sex as an adolescent.Stopheleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12098094328392273450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-28940610087920814172007-10-24T12:10:00.000-04:002007-10-24T12:10:00.000-04:00Remind me to lend you ULTIMATE PORNO sometime -- i...Remind me to lend you ULTIMATE PORNO sometime -- it's a book about the <I>making</I> of the movie, written by the Assistant Director. It's a brilliant analysis of the failure of the old studio system of filmmaking, and explains how a movie's producer can totally derail a project.<BR/><BR/>Basically, Vidal thought he was writing the next Ben Hur, Tinto Brass thought he was making a movie about the abuse of power post-Watergate, McDowell thought he was following up A Clockwork Orange, Gielgud and Mirren thought they were making another I, Claudius, Peter O'Toole thought gin was tasty, and Bob Guccione thought the whole point was to make a porno with expensive sets.<BR/><BR/>At some point, I fully intend to write (and maybe draw) the definitive comic adaptation of this story. It's truly hilarious and bizarre.Stopheleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12098094328392273450noreply@blogger.com