Essay on The Devil in Miss Jones

[gunhilltrain]

Or at least as I remember it from many years ago.

https://www.literotica.com/s/viewing-my-first-porn-movie

A long-ago interview with the late Gerard Damiano:

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-deep-throat-director-gerard-damiano

 

[NotWise]

Or at least as I remember it from many years ago.

https://www.literotica.com/s/viewing-my-first-porn-movie

A long-ago interview with the late Gerard Damiano:

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-deep-throat-director-gerard-damiano

You and I must be very close to the same age.

The Golden Age of porn happened when producers managed to cobble together a distribution network among adult theaters. Before that, a porn flick might be seen in ten local theaters. After that, they could be seen by millions of people all over the country. Production values and pay rates went up accordingly, and the productions occasionally approached mainstream movies for quality.

I didn't have much interest at all in porn during the seventies and into the mid-nineties. Playboy and Penthouse (later, Hustler) were just of passing interest. I did, however, like girls in about every shape and form -- as long as they were intelligent enough to make conversation.

My discovery of porn was much later than "The Devil in Miss Jones," but when it started interesting me I was quickly disenchanted -- until I found the Golden Age movies. I'm a fan, but not necessarily of "The Devil in Miss Jones." I think that movie is largely a New York thing.

The one-year-earlier and more adventurous "Behind the Green Door," is more interesting. The psychedelic sex scenes and money shots haven't been copied, as near as I know. The French "Emmanuelle" came about a year later. It's softcore, but it's sex content is intense.

The quality of the movies built over time until the producers found they could make more money producing things directly to video tape, but the movies they made before that were good.

There was a large divide between the New York productions and the California productions, and in California, between the Hollywood and San Francisco productions. The New York productions seemed to feature a fairly small number of "stars" and in a lot of cases they were raunchier than contemporaneous California productions.

I can list a bunch French, Italian, and American flicks that I thought were interesting, but "The Devil in Miss Jones" would not be near the top of the list.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The French "Emmanuelle" came about a year later. It's softcore, but it's sex content is intense.

Just Jaekin's The Story of O - same era - is worth a look. Both movies circulated around Australia as a double R rated feature - no penetration, but pretty full on soft core. An enjoyable way to spend several hours with your girl up the back row of the cinema .

 

[NotWise]

Just Jaekin's The Story of O - same era - is worth a look. Both movies circulated around Australia as a double R rated feature - no penetration, but pretty full on soft core. An enjoyable way to spend several hours with your girl up the back row of the cinema .

Good production; beautiful actresses and actors. I've tried watching it at least three times and it bores me. I start forwarding through scenes and then I give up. As a character, "O" doesn't interest me, but that's me. I've never watched it with a woman. Maybe that would change things.

The book might interest me more.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Good production; beautiful actresses and actors. I've tried watching it at least three times and it bores me. I start forwarding through scenes and then I give up. As a character, "O" doesn't interest me, but that's me. I've never watched it with a woman. Maybe that would change things.

The book might interest me more.

The novel, nowadays, shows its age - first published in 1953, thereabouts - it's a little heavy going in places (and depends on the translation, too). I bought the movie tie-in version (it came out in 1975) so had a pic of Corinne Cléry on the cover - I've still got it on my shelf of classic porn.

 

[SimonDoom]

The novel, nowadays, shows its age - first published in 1953, thereabouts - it's a little heavy going in places (and depends on the translation, too). I bought the movie tie-in version (it came out in 1975) so had a pic of Corinne Cléry on the cover - I've still got it on my shelf of classic porn.

I think the novel definitely shows its age, and is over-rated. It gets much of its reputation from being one of the first of its kind. The O character is never as interesting as she should be. We never learn that much about her and the treatment of her motivation is sketchy. The ending is neglected and unsatisfactory.

To this day I think there still exists a somewhat untapped potential for first-rate published erotic fiction and first-rate erotic film -- stuff that transcends the limits of "genre" fiction and film.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think the novel definitely shows its age, and is over-rated. It gets much of its reputation from being one of the first of its kind. The O character is never as interesting as she should be. We never learn that much about her and the treatment of her motivation is sketchy. The ending is neglected and unsatisfactory.

To this day I think there still exists a somewhat untapped potential for first-rate published erotic fiction and first-rate erotic film -- stuff that transcends the limits of "genre" fiction and film.

Go find the novel "Blue Movie" by Terry Southern. He imagines a movie made by the world's best director (clearly modelled on Stanley Kubrick) who sets out to make the best erotic movie ever, with top production values. I've not read it for a long time, but Terry Southern... how can that go wrong? It's a very funny, clever take on Hollywood movies and porn. Worth a read.

 

[AwkwardMD]

To this day I think there still exists a somewhat untapped potential for first-rate published erotic fiction and first-rate erotic film -- stuff that transcends the limits of "genre" fiction and film.

Cyberpunk 2077. Watch for it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

To this day I think there still exists a somewhat untapped potential for first-rate published erotic fiction and first-rate erotic film -- stuff that transcends the limits of "genre" fiction and film.

If somebody made it, though, would it be acknowledged as first-rate? Or would people just assume that erotica couldn't be good?

(also, reported the spambot)

 

[gerasimus]

I've done one of these a long time ago, I should look for it. I couldn't find it, but I vaguely remember what I wrote in it. The movie should be given a maximum of 3 stars. The performance, I must say, it's something else. That's what made me stay and watch the whole movie. I remember it was pretty hard to write an essay about it, but intriguing at the same time because for most people it's a taboo subject and are not open to talk about it. I remember I was just at the beginning of my career as a professional essay writer.

 

[RichardWark]

Actually, I think my favorite from the "Golden Age" may very well be the Seventies' "Alice in Wonderland." Even though only a small fraction of it is actually HC, it has, of course, the classic plot, a good dose of humor, attractive, appealing performers, and a lead actress so lovely and sexy it is almost painful to look at her. I remember seeing it on its first release and revisited it lately to see if its appeal to me at the time was based upon the fact that I was a horny 18 year old. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had aged pretty well. Very much one of the high points of the era.

Richard Wark
Wark2002

 

[gunhilltrain]

You and I must be very close to the same age.

. . .

I can list a bunch French, Italian, and American flicks that I thought were interesting, but "The Devil in Miss Jones" would not be near the top of the list.

I'm sixty-five. How close is that?

I think I mentioned the disappointing aspects of "The Devil in Miss Jones:" the downbeat ending, repetitive plot, no real characterization or dialogue, minimal settings, etc. (Some of the afterlife looks like a house in Connecticut, which I think was owned by Harry Reems at the time.) Some of the sequels sound more promising, but I've never seen them.

 

[NotWise]

I'm sixty-five. How close is that?

For now, I'm sixty-six.

PS: "Fox Trot" is a fun classic flick, and it features some of my favorite performers.

 

[gunhilltrain]

For now, I'm sixty-six.

PS: "Fox Trot" is a fun classic flick, and it features some of my favorite performers.

That movie is on xHamster, which I hadn't expected.

Ron Jeremy: didn't I say that he is proof that any man, if he really works hard, can become a porn star? Or perhaps it's that most males in the audience can identify with him as one of their own.