I dont know, but the use of the word *beep* in this film was frankly disturbing. it wasnt classy or cool-- it just sounded totally out of place when she kept saying, i always want to *beep* you. who says that? porn stars dont use the word and mean it like she did. it sounded so dumb.
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I agree it sounds rude now, but I think at the time we weren't to far from the sexual revolution and movies at that time took a little while to catch up. Use of *beep* was considered honest and up front, daring to society. Now nobody gives a *beep* since it has become part of everyday conversation in movies and cable TV.
It also has to do with how she views their relationship. She's married so her lover has to be just for sex. So if she uses that word, then it's different and okay. Do you know what I mean? It has to do with what he does for a living and what their relationship is compared to society norms.
I think what makes it so odd is Lauren Hutton saying it, not that it was said.
I think what makes it so odd is Lauren Hutton saying it, not that it was said.
I'd love hearing a young Lauren Hutton say she wants to f--- me any day of the week!
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I know exactly what you mean. I can sit through any Tarantino flick or any other movie that used "f_ck" hundreds of times without thinking about it. But the word "f_ck" in this movie stuck out bigtime. Maybe it was because it was only used two or three times but never conversationally; it was always in reference to sex. If Gere had a few lines like, "They're f_cking framing me for murder!" it might not have stuck out as much.
shareI thought it was sort of weird that the woman they cast as Julian's pimp looked so much like Lauren Hutton.
shareYou mean Nina van Pallandt, the willowy Danish blonde who was also in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and a few other films in the 1970s and ’80s? Aside from being fair-haired and slim, I don't think she looked that much like Lauren Hutton -- although I would have taken either one of them.
In the early ’70s, Nina became internationally famous when it was revealed that she was the girlfriend of writer Clifford Irving and had been with him in Mexico at the time he claimed he was having secret meetings with Howard Hughes. Supposedly, Irving was working with the reclusive billionaire on a biography that would tell Hughes' story as he wanted it told. Turned out the book was a fake. Hughes and Irving never met. Irving went to jail and Nina turned her brief celebrity into a lucrative career, appearing (I wouldn't call it acting) in several movies.
Prior to that, Nina and her first husband, the Baron Frederik van Pallandt, were a popular folk and calypso singing duo in Europe. Look for "Nina and Frederik" on YouTube.
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