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Author:   julesdlr   author profile email reply view thread post new · post reply subscribe Email: julesdlr@ix.netcom.com Date: 1997/03/13 Forums: rec.arts.movies.erotica view for bookmarking  ·  text only

Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock! wrote:
> 
> Emperor of Ice-Cream wrote:
> 
> > It's also disturbing to know that when Pasolini was murdered, his bodywas
> > found tortured as the children in the last scenes of the film were
> > tortured. It's considered a political assisnation by many. Pasolini had
> > strong political beliefs and made them known.
> 
> ...hmmm...I thought the film was released a couple of months after
> Pasolini's death, so how would a murderer (a Rome street hustler, if I
> remember correctly, in Pasolini's case) know how to mimic the torture if
> the movie was still under wraps at the time?...

        If memory serves (and maybe it doesn't) the film was released in the
U.S. after Pasolini's death, but had been released in Italy before
Pasolini's death. Also, though Pasoloni was stabbed his body was run
over a couple of times by a car (may have been his own) which is not the
way it was done in the film. I think the correlation between the final
scenes in the film and Pasolini's murder is a bit of apocrypha. Pasolini
was supposedly killed by some "rough trade" that he'd picked up.  Though
this is not disputed, there are those who argue that it was a setup,
i.e., that Mr. Rough Trade was a hired killer. The anti-fascism of "120
Days of Sodom" pissed of alot of powerful people who were already pissed
off at the content of some of his "religious" films. BTW, though I don't
think I saw any woodies in Pasolini's films he did manage to cast
several goodlooking, big dicked, Italian guys. Made me wonder if
Pasolini was particularly good at casting or if I should've just moved
to Italy.

        Sincerely,

        Jules