"behind the green door" review, beyondRatedR, part2
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00:00 Secretly, everybody enjoyed it.
00:20 Surprisingly, this is a movie.
00:22 It was released nationwide, shown in theaters, and because it has a $50 million box office
00:28 content a day, making it the fourth highest grossing film in the year 1972.
00:32 I know, I have to google it too.
00:36 Behind the Green Door were made by the infamous Mitchell Brothers.
00:39 They started out shooting X-rated film and showed them in their own theaters.
00:43 Prior to this film, they have no notable work, and it shows.
00:48 If I say Deep Throat is a standard prono-level production, then Behind the Green Door should
00:53 be somewhere in the America's Funniest Home Video level.
00:58 So why is it such a triumph?
01:01 Look at this poorly angled shot.
01:09 Okay, that shot was actually pretty neat.
01:24 But you cannot deny this shot is not focused.
01:47 It's all possible, isn't it?
02:03 The way that they got hold of this story was, I don't know if it was the Korean War or what,
02:10 but in the trenches, the guys would pass around this paper, and each guy would put down, would
02:15 add on to the fantasy.
02:18 It's a fantasy of a woman that's kidnapped, or taken against her will, I should say, and
02:23 taken to this very exotic, erotic, elite sex club and loved as she's never been loved before.
02:31 One of the things that definitely was added to the whole hoopla was something that I had
02:36 forgotten to tell Jim in art.
02:38 And that was one day I was thinking about it, and I said, "I forgot to tell you this."
02:44 I used to be a model in New York, and when I was 17, I shot a soapbox for Ivory Soap.
02:54 And they said, "Well, yeah, go on."
02:56 And I said, "I was the mom on the box holding the baby."
03:01 And they said, "Oh, really?
03:02 Well, when is this supposed to come out in the shelves?"
03:06 I think they said it was going to take about two years to take the old picture off the
03:10 box and the new picture on the box, which would be mine.
03:14 And I think it should be coming out just about now.
03:19 And there you have it.
03:20 Marilyn Chambers, America's street art turned adult film star.
03:25 That kind of stories, that we all sort of heard of, but were never able to put a face
03:30 to it.
03:31 Anyway, as she said, inside of this exclusive private club is where the shit hits the fan.
03:38 References, Jon Stewart.
03:41 Wait, what?
03:42 And hit the fan, it really did.
03:53 The movie kept it PG-13 for like the first 16 minutes, and basically everybody is naked
03:59 for the next hour.
04:02 And the absurdity is just over the roof.
04:04 By comparison, Fifty Shades of Grey looks just like Babe 2 peek in the city, in front
04:10 of, behind the green door.
04:11 If you have seen it, you must know what I am talking about.
04:15 And if you haven't, pursue with caution.
04:18 Only if you are 18 years and older, of course.
04:20 So I won't spoil it here.
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