Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Which Is Hotter?

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Ken Russell's film Women in Love starring Alan Bates and Oliver Reed and Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestling naked and oh some women too... award winning ones at that... 

... came out in the United States fifty years ago today! That was about four months after it premiered in England, and I imagine it caused quite the scandal here like it did in the UK, given all the famous peen flopping around for the very first time on a mainstream screen. That said I know, I know, basically every single time I post about this movie I post about its naked wrestling scene...

... even though there's plenty else to recommend it -- but one, I am me, (speaking of recommendations I really recommend you scroll through our Bates / Reed archives) and two, I did some checking and I actually have somehow never asked the most basic question of all?

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The film's been given the glorious Criterion treatment and I just went ahead and bought myself a copy today as a treat to me as I sit holed up here at home -- I recommend you, providing you've got rent and food and all of that covered, do the same. The DVD that I have now is pretty shitty, comparatively, and I can't wait to watch it all, top to bottom, in that grand 4K restoration...

4 comments:

joel65913 said...

Oliver Reed was appealing in that burly, surly rough guy sort of way but next to Alan Bates, even with that too bushy beard, there isn't any competition. He gets my vote every time.

Jordan said...

I’d heard so much about this scene my entire life and then finally ordered the Criterion edition and sat down to watch. Very rarely do things live up to their hype - this surpassed my wildest expectations. Loved every second.

JKue71@comcast.net said...

I rented this maybe a year ago and I can only imagine how shocked some were to see some of those scenes when it came out.

Unknown said...

DEAR SIR ; YOUR REQUEST TO COME TO A SINGLE CHOICE BETWEEN THESE TWO MASTER GENTS OF ALL ACTOR-LY MANLINESS IS CONSIDERED IMPOSSIBLE THEREFORE PLEASE VOID THE QUESTION ALL TOGETHER OR AWARD A TWO-WAY SPLIT?

WOMEN IN LOVE WAS MY VERY FIRST ‘FILM’ RATHER THAN MERE MOVIE : the year ,1981, early Spring :
the venue an old movie palace Georgetown , D.C. my fellow equally mesmerized viewers , my heavy man-crush and my best real girl
pal who ended up in bed with my guy later that same afternoon !

The entire “ We have devised an entertainment in the Grecian manner” haunted me the rest of that year.AND I LOVED IT.
Your devoted fan , Tom Beeton , Los Angels.