"I'm shocked at all of the posts on this board carrying on about how Linda lied about being forced to be a porn star. Granted, this is a movie, so they may have taken certain liberties, but if her life was anything like it was depicted in the movie, I feel angry and sad about what she went through and I think it's outrageous that so many of you are trivializing things like getting beaten, raped, and exploited by your own husband by making her out to be a hypocrite or a liar" -- by janice-130
Janice, thanks to your post, I'll probably just skip most of this message board section. (But your post title sucked! Hehe just kidding, but it sure got me to click on it real damn fast! :) )
I very well recall getting the book "Lovelace" when it came out, and if the movie is rough (I haven't seen it yet), then it should be. Hearing Linda narrate her own life is gripping, gritty, and I think it's very obviously truthful.
The moment the book came out, there was a big backlash -- and it had every sign of being "a planned effort." After all, Linda's truth shed a nasty light on quite a few people -- and plenty of them, such as the mob, or the industry itself, were indicted by what was done to her. They attacked her for it, but when similar things that support her story in general were shown, no-one said a damn thing.
Example:
Boogie Nights showed how frequently drugs were doled out to both girls and boys at parties and such to get them hooked, then these people who got hooked had to find some way to get their supplies to continue. [When "Amber Waves" (Julianne Moore) faced her ex-husband in front of a judge in a custody battle, she's forced to admit multiple arrests for prostitution and drug possession; so obviously her salary as a top-level porn actress wasn't enough to cover her habit, and all but held her hostage to "the life."]
Long before the eras of both
Deep Throat and
Boogie Nights, famous lingerie model and celebrated "Queen of the Pinups," Bettie Page -- who participated in bondage pictures and "short film loops" -- was, by her own admission, subjected to both sexual abuse by her father and to rape later in life. The latter was suggested in several of Page's biopics and biographies, such as
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). Bettie never engaged in soft porn or sex films, yet the fact that she was comfortable being photographed nude, and her willing participation in posing for bondage pictures and film shorts (she even sewed her own outfits for them) was suggestive that she was promiscuous, when Bettie was anything but; she left the industry and went on to attend three bible colleges and tried to become a missionary to Africa (but was refused due to her status of being a divorcee), and her final full-time job was working for the Billy Graham organization.
Lovelace may have been more difficult to read than watch as a movie, as Linda herself describes how she was abused physically and psychologically -- her husband frequently threatened to kill her entire family -- and events such as when he savagely beat Linda and kicked her around when she balled up in pain on the floor. Signs of his having beat her show up in scenes of
Deep Throat; Linda points out which scenes include the deep bruises that they were unable to conceal with make-up, showing that these events took place even
during the filming of the movie.
So when Linda tells her story, and her ex and others insist it to be a lie, look up the sources of those quotes and you're likely to find pure scum.
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