Film director Zalman King has died at the age of 69, and I'm sad to report the world got just a little less sexy with his passing.
I really can't claim to be a longtime fan of Mr. King. In fact, the first time I heard his name, it was in connection with the film 9½ Weeks, which he produced and is a movie I less than affectionately refer to as a perfume ad for date rape. This is not because it involved consensual bondage with a dominant male; rather, because it offered up several sequences in which the heroine did not know or consent to everything that was happening to her. Yep folks, it doesn't matter how sexy the lead actor is or how smoky the jazz music is that's playing in the background, lack of consent is lack of consent. So while the film's soundtrack (featuring songs by my idol John Taylor from Duran Duran,...
I really can't claim to be a longtime fan of Mr. King. In fact, the first time I heard his name, it was in connection with the film 9½ Weeks, which he produced and is a movie I less than affectionately refer to as a perfume ad for date rape. This is not because it involved consensual bondage with a dominant male; rather, because it offered up several sequences in which the heroine did not know or consent to everything that was happening to her. Yep folks, it doesn't matter how sexy the lead actor is or how smoky the jazz music is that's playing in the background, lack of consent is lack of consent. So while the film's soundtrack (featuring songs by my idol John Taylor from Duran Duran,...
- 2/4/2012
- by MeganHussey
- Planet Fury
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