Most of those who read this entry must know -in't have ever heard-who it is Maria Ozawa. Or Sasha Gray. Or Asia Carrera, Terra Patrick, to Vicky Vette who chirp enough to steal the attention of Twitter users in Indonesia. Yes, they are the women who are willing to show the beauty of his body to millions of porn movie witnesses (including those in Indonesia).
But, have you ever heard of Linda Lovelace? Someone may have but I'm sure not too much. Linda Lovelace is no different from the names I mentioned earlier. He is -like the names I mentioned earlier-a female actress who might be more eagerly awaited in the bed than his acting quality.
In 1972, there was a "revolution" in the United States. No, I'm not talking about the infamous Watergate scandal. There was a "pornographic revolution" in those days. Gerard Damiano, of course, a movie lover seldom heard this name over Martin Scorsese-made a porn movie called Deep Throat. Linda Lovelace, the cast of women, gets a portion as the main actor there.
Told a woman (Lovelace) have difficulty to experience orgasm. After a sex party does not help, the woman advised her friends to see a doctor. The doctor found that the woman's clitoris was in her throat. The doctor (the man) advised the woman to perform oral sex to make it easier to reach climax. Furthermore, there is no special story of Deep Throat (like other pornographic films that are more focused on the sex scene than the storyline).
With a budget of no more than $ 50,000 (according to The New York Times 1973) Deep Throat is said to be making a profit of up to $ 600 million (according to the documentary about the film, Inside Deep Throat, made by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
in 2005). Thousands of people flocked to watch this porn movie since it was first played on June 12, 1972 in World Theater, New York. Prohibited to circulate in various parts of the United States, Deep Throat still attract the United States citizens who according to the documentary was mostly coming from the middle to upper class.
Lovelace may never be as popular as Meryl Streep to Julia Roberts. But, as the critic of the Pulitzer winning film Roger Ebert says, Deep Throat is a cultural uprising. In those days, naked in front of the camera then witnessed millions of pairs of eyes has not been so popular as it is now. Even if it was done in a porn movie, then the film is most likely not a movie that sohor instead of the distribution done clandestinely in the underground network. Rather returning to a few moments before Deep Throat is played, we may recall the name of Marilyn Monroe or Jane Maynsfield for his courage to show off the body in front of the camera and indeed it is used as the "accelerator" of their popularity. Of course this is different from the present. Angelina Jolie who shows her breasts several times in the film, (and the most "thrilling" of course in Original Sin) is not too fussy like that period. In today's film era, Hollywood especially, you do not show enough nudity in front of the camera to gain popularitaas. Nudity in a sex scene in a mainstream movie is not too special anymore to be heralded like the Monroe and Maynsfield era.
Deep Throat is often judged as a paved path in that direction. As the gateway where the liberalization of the realm of sexuality began to enter the living room of American society (and possibly Indonesia and other countries quite influenced by Hollywood culture). The brilliance behind the filmmaking is like mafia network involvement in its production as a money-laundering medium to the recognition of one of the female cast in the film, Linda Boreman, who performed sex scenes under gunpowder, only adds to the "greatness" of the film as a cult in the world of cinema and American pop culture. In fact, the magic of this movie can also be found when you watch the movie titled All The President's Men are lifted from the real story of dismantling the Watergate scandal. In the film (and reality), Howard Simons, editor of the Wahington Post, chose the term "Deep Throat" to refer to his informer -Mark Felt-in dismantling a conspiracy that ousted President Nixon.
Of course this short essay is just a description and is not an assessment of the power of the story of a porn movie. I'm not sure someone (you, me, we) watch a porno movie for any other purpose than to make himself aroused. Deep Throat, as the storyline, is nothing compared to other films that have enormous cultural implications like Star Wars to Harry Potter. But, perhaps, when trivial things like mooing over the bed still intrigue many people, Deep Throat is present at the right moment. Because a "good" movie is sometimes not solely determined by the cost or complexity of the story. But the extent to which he makes us curious and make us become the "other" after watching it.