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Gore Gore Girl  Doctor of the Erotic Arts  7238 Posts 1/09 |  Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 9:27AMHey folks - I'm interested in seeing some more pornographic adaptations of novels having just watched Autobiography of a Flea. I saw The Passions of Carol (and Oliver Twink) a while back, which are both Christmas Carol adaptations. Now we have the Twilight parody, but that's more of a parody of the movie. Then there's the softcore Story of O and Lady Chatterly, and the dozens of Dracula adaptations. Any other suggestions?  [Link] |
| Len801 Deactivated User 754 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 11:24AM Hunchback of Notre Dame: http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=hunchback+of+the+notre+dame/year=1992/hunchback-of-the-notre-dame.htm Cyrano: http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=Cyrano/year=1991/Cyrano.htm Three Musketeers: http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=Three+Musketeers+1/year=1992/Three-Musketeers-1.htm Alice in Wonderland: [ invalid url ]  [Link] |
| T0MBOne Senior Member 1200 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 4:02PM [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 4:47PM Thanks for the recs so far people - more please! I suppose it's too much to ask for an X-rated Wuthering Heights (perhaps not...). I also just remembered Playboy did a pornographic version of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (pictorial, of course) that drew out the incestuous/lesbian elements. Worth checking out if anyone's into that sort of thing. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 4:51PM [Link] |
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| Girlyman Deactivated User 29 Posts 10/06 | Posted - Oct 21 2009 : 1:19AM [Link] |
| T0MBOne Senior Member 1200 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Oct 21 2009 : 1:51AM By the way, I think the James Avalon movie is something called Trial by Copulation, something reviewers slammed for being dark as in too dark to see. Hershel Savage plays the Kafka-esque character. T0M/T0MBOne [Link] |
| the unknown pervert Deactivated User I'd like to stay but I've got a plane to catch. 3243 Posts 5/06 | Posted - Oct 21 2009 : 9:39AM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Oct 21 2009 : 10:14AM Also, Radley Matzger's THE IMAGE is essentially a word for word adaptation of the novel. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Oct 23 2009 : 3:05PM Here is what I have come up with: Shakespeare adaps: A Midsummer Night's Cream Romeo and Julian Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia Taming of the Screw The Secret Lives of Romeo and Juliet An adap of Paradise Lost is apparently available, too. Also, I read something about a bible adap - The Cumming of Jizzus, but I wonder if it's just a hoax, kinda like Porn and Penetration. [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 6:25AM Hopefully The Image will get a blu-ray release from Synapse sometime soon in the future, I know they want to do it. The Story of Joanna is essentially Damiano's unofficial adaptation of The Story of O. Kemal Horlu's Virgin and the Lover is an adaptation of a French novella as well, I have that film (from Excalibur) but haven't watched it yet. Looks interesting though, and it has the underrated Eric Edwards in the lead role. Horlu also did a Madame Bovary rip-off called Woman in Love, although I've read it isn't that great, but I find almost all of his films at least worth a watch (I enjoyed his film Feelings, although that's not an adaptation or anything). The Cumming of Jizzus is actually a product of Robin Bougie, the writer of the Cinema Sewer exploitation/porn zine. Not really a feature, but not exactly gonzo either, from what I've read about it. He wrote about the making of it a bit here. In the realm of Bible-based porn there's the Mitchell's infamous flop Sodom & Gomorrah, which is really terrible btw, and there is some ultra-obscure Norwegian or Swedish or some-such film from the 70s called I Fucked Jesus that is floating around as a terrible quality boot. Speaking of Bunuel and French pornography, I see that his amazing last film, That Obscure Object of Desire is an adaptation of a Pierre Louys novel. Funny that no one ever did a xxx version of his Three Daughters pornographic novella. Edited by - BlackSix on 10/25/2009 6:42:14 AM [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 8:51AM It's funny, since I've started looking into this, it seems that the most obvious choices - i.e. the novels that are pornographic - don't get adapted as much as books that don't have explicit sexuality. I think porn movies like to have something to work with (read: pervert), and that's why they're busy adapting children's books and Shakespeare instead of Anais Nin. Though, if anyone is reading this, I would love to see a feature adapation of some of Nin's short stories. Then of course, there's the fact that a lot of the stuff in porn lit would be illegal to film - I started looking for Marqui de Sade adaps, and quickly realised that a hardcore adap of something like Justine would probably be legally obscene, not to mention unwatchable. (There is Salo, of course, but that's not hardcore - still controversial, though). [Link] |
| T0MBOne Senior Member 1200 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 11:21PM I watched a crummy version of Story of Joanna but I dug it anyway. Damiano considered Joanna superior to his earlier, less expensive Devil in Miss Jones and even cheaper Deep Throat. (or so he says on the commentary for DMJ) Yea, I shudder at the thought of someone attempting something with Tropic of Cancer or Anais Nin's stuff, especially in today's crappy climate when it's safe to just parody anything and everything---T0M Edited by - T0MBOne on 10/25/2009 11:22:47 PM [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Nov 16 2009 : 4:34PM I highly recommend this as a double bill - Alice is jovial and light, while Looking Glass is really dark and eerie, but they go together really well. I'm focusing on Victorian literature at the moment, so I think the Dorian Gray/Frankenstein/Dracula/Jekyll and Hyde/Dickens adaps will be up next. [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Nov 17 2009 : 2:38AM [Link] |
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| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 7:05PM [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Nov 21 2009 : 9:52PM [Link] |
| DAF1740 Member 305 Posts 9/06 | Posted - Dec 7 2009 : 11:07AM I've looked all over for adaptations of the Marquis de Sade's works (for a chapter in my dissertation). There are a few, but they're all soft-core: several by Jess Franco, and a couple Japanese releases as well. I can post a complete list as soon as I get around to writing said chapter (hopefully sometime in the next few months). I'm a bit surprised no one made a real hardcore version of Justine or something back in the 70s (as you said, Salo is not porn). Although they're illegal in our enlightened 21st century, simulated rape, murder, and even scat appear in quite a few classic films. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Dec 7 2009 : 2:24PM Oh, and I read Belle de Jour over the last couple of days, and then watched V: The Hot One yesterday - amazing book, amazing film. It really impressed me. The only thing that didn't quite work, but is an interesting difference nonetheless, is that in the book of course it would be shocking for her husband to find out she were in a whorehouse, and she is tantalized by whoredom because the men are so unlike her upper crust, sweet husband. Whereas in V, her husband is all about swinging, and seems so open to things, that it seems odd that V would feel she should keep it a secret. Still, this just raises more interesting questions about differences in culture/era. Of course, the endings are completely different too - I'm glad about that! DAF - what's your dissertation about? [Link] |
| DAF1740 Member 305 Posts 9/06 | Posted - Dec 7 2009 : 3:30PM What about yours? (I love your blog, by the way!) [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Dec 7 2009 : 3:57PM Wow, that sounds really interesting! I guess you've read Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman? What's your take on that? Mine's about pornographic adaptations/appropriations and the different ways pornography speaks back to the mainstream/exposes its hypocrisies, as well as refers to itself in a self-reflexive/critical way. Basically, porn as a postmodern medium and what it has to say about gender/sexuality in high and low art. There's a professor I was in contact with a few weeks back who was looking for histories of pornography - he wrote his dissertation on French libertine writing, and I bet he would be a good contact for you if you needed one, in terms of ideas for texts etc. Just let me know and I'll email you. [Link] |
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