Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:


The Duke: It is when I see others degraded that I rejoice knowing it is better to be me than the scum of "the people". Whenever men are equal, without that difference, happiness cannot exist. So you wouldn't aid the humble, the unhappy. In all the world no voluptuousness flatters the senses more than social privilege. 

Pier Paolo Pasolini was born 92 years ago today. Have you ever seen Salo? Everybody says Salo is one of the hardest films to watch ever made but I actually had a pretty easy go with it - you know you can close your eyes or look away when everybody starts eating poop, right everybody? You don't get a demerit on your cinemaniac badge for that. And the gore effects at the end didn't bug me so much; they haven't aged very well. I'm not attempting to posture like a tough guy here - those points aside, it's certainly a despairing and depressing film. But its reputation is a little over-done; it's not nearly the most disturbing film I've ever seen.

Anyway just last week I stumbled upon that there picture of Pasolini with actor Ninetto Davoli; naturally - look at him! - I immediately felt the urge to gather up pictures of Davoli. The two had a relationship when Davoli was just fifteen so you know, creepy. Davoli continued to work with Pasolini for another ten years until Pasolini's murder in 1975; Davoli actually still acts today. Anyway try to set aside the creepiness, compartmentalize, and hit the jump for some very NSFW totally-of-age (most of the pictures are from or circa Arabian Nights when he was twenty-six) pictures of Ninetto...














4 comments:

Bill Carter said...

Re: Your quote from "The Duke".

What does John Wayne have to do with any of this?

Kokolo said...

I wonder who cast those nude guys in the background of the first picture. They all have something in common :D.

skinheadbrian von R said...

any idea what films the 2 stills in "ninetto davoli naked 10" were taken from? (it's the one with a color image on the left & a black & white image on the right of him in the shower, being soaped-up by what looks like a male hand...))

iain said...

@Kokolo:

Those background boys (in Salo') don't actually have "something in common"; the penises are not natural endowments but prosthetics.