Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 23:16:31 +0200
From: [email protected] (Peter van Aarle)
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: SCRIPT: Some thoughts

Ron wrote in a message dated 95/05/09, 16:00

>Forwarded message:
>Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 16:17:47 -0500
>From: Heretic
>Subject: Re: SCRIPT: Some thoughts
>
[snip]

>BTW, I was reading thought the X-rated Videotape Guide (vol 2) in the store
>the other day and came across the film 'Sunset Boulevard'  Has anyone see
>this and the original?  I'm just curious how well (if at all) they
>translated the story into porn.  Of course you can't do 'porn noir'  The
>whole crux of noir is that the sex(along with drugs) was sublimated because
>of 'the Code'

You can always trust Bob Rimmer to get it wrong ;-)

First of all, the correct title is Sinset Boulevard (and no I haven't seen
the original Gloria Swanson version).

Second, his review states: "...it begins with Mike Horner floating inthe
swimming pool, dead. Posthumously he tells his story"
That's wrong! Yes, he floats, but he isn't dead (you only find out at the
end of the movie of course...
It's actually not a bad movie. Mike is a starving porn script writer (oh,
oh that doesn't sound good for us ;-) in the future (2011), with Jerry
Falwell as president of the US (yeah, this was made in 1987 during the
Meese years).
Shanna McCulogh rejet Mike's latest script (but pays him to fuck her). Than
she give him a job (since he obviously is a lousy scriptwriter). Due to the
restrictive climate porn can not be distributed by mail or UPS, so Mike is
given a bicycle and a basket of porn tapes to deliver :-)
He delivers a package to Rachel Ryan, which contains her favourite 80's movies.
she looks familiar, and Mike finally remembers she was a big name porn star
in those 80's. But she still doesn't look a day over 30!!

She invites him to watch one of her old movies with her and John Leslie who
is now her butler and used to be her director (see, there is hope for Bud
Lee yet ;-)

Anyway she tells Mike she and John have found the fountain of youth (which
turns out to be having multiple orgasms at the stroke of midnight :-/  )
But John has trouble satisfying this need everynight, and she offers Mike a
position to help her achieve those orgasms.  He does so, but decides he
doesn't want to do this for all eternity. Rachel insists she needs him and
when he refuses she shoots him and he ends up facedown in the pool so we
are back where we started in the movie.

But then Mike rises from the water and tells the camera something like "You
don't think I'd really pass up on this sort of life, did you?"  Which I
agree is slightly strange if he really was shot by Rachel. Maybe they
didn't want a gruesome end...

--
Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

  Peter van Aarle ([email protected])