Topic: the original emmanuelle dead at 60

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http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/emmanuelle-star-sylvia-kristel-dies-20121019-27uut.html

in 1976. Photo: AFP Sylvia Kristel, who has died aged 60, starred in a series of notorious 1970s soft-porn films beginning with Emmanuelle (1974), which followed the sexual exploits of a bored young diplomat's wife in the fleshpots of Thailand. Promoted under the slogan "X was never like this", the film generated numerous profitable sequels and countless imitations, thanks to Sylvia Kristel's erotic portrayal of the half-innocent, half sex-crazed Emmanuelle as she gambols naked, joins the "mile-high club", simulates oral sex, fumbles with other women and fakes orgasm. Though clumsily directed, badly acted and with risible, badly-dubbed dialogue, to audiences of the early 1970s Emmanuelle looked like the last word in liberated sexuality. Made when Sylvia Kristel was 22, the film became a sensation, with worldwide audiences estimated at some 650 million. In France, where it was originally banned for six months, Emmanuelle became the country's highest-grossing film of all time and was screened at a cinema on the Champs-Elysees in Paris for an unbroken nine years.


Sylvia Kristel also starred in a series of sequels - Emmanuelle 2 in 1975, Goodbye Emmanuelle in 1977 and Emmanuelle 4 in 1984. "I realised that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle," she declared, "and wanted to prolong their fantasy, to keep me within it, symbolic and naked, idealised and necessary." But her career in sex films drew her down into a netherworld of moguls on the make, who cast her in a succession of even more tawdry pictures that sought to cash in on her reputation as a sex-kitten. Her autobiography, published in English as Undressing Emmanuelle (2007), also disclosed a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her search for a father figure which had resulted in several abusive relationships with older men.

[Mo]

I watched Emmanuelle when I was a teenager around 1985 - 1989.  Thank you for sharing this news article.  It clearly describes what the series was.

It's so sad to see another story of a beautiful woman who lived a life of abuse.

"a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her search for a father figure which had resulted in several abusive relationships with older men."

This is the true image of many people nowadays.  What's worse than this picture is that of the abusers:  the father, the brother, the cousin, the uncle, the friend, the boyfriend...the stranger watching the shared scandal video.

This, again made me reflect on my own life, and examine my own conscience: Will I be added among the abusers?...or will I choose the role that is rarely taken...to defend her, to fight for her and be the one who will not think unclean thoughts about her...and do all this for love, for truth...and give myself,to serve without counting the cost.

Then maybe I might feel a little of that which is called honor...something that had the greatest value during the time of knights, champions.... heroes.