New comment on your post "The virtues of Caligula"
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There's a good chance you weren't yet born when I saw Emmanuelle, so the plain truth is I don't remember very much about it. I do remember I saw it in a theater, with my girlfriend, it wasn't hard to sit through, and it didn't ruin the evening. I also remember some time later we picked a sequal on VHS (this back when decks were so expensive you could rent the movie  the deck) and I remember being disappoint and not watching it all the way through.

Vis a vis the debasement of the X-rating (a self-applied quasi MPAA rating) the producers recognized it was going to problem and came up withe the very catchy "X was never like this."

http://www.impawards.com/1974/emmanuelle_xlg.html

Notable: Just this week I saw the not an MPAA NR in a faux MPAA ratings box on the box-cover artwork of a self-described "proud pornographer". It's history repeating itself. Just like in the late 60s, when pornographers started putting the not trademarked X-rated on their poster art to make their movies look more "ligit" now their putting the not trademarked NR .

Ironically, NR has a better position in the DVD market than the MPAA's NC-17, even though they are functionally equivelent in terms of content restrictions (ie. none.) If the NR gambit catches on and NR become the black mark that X became 30-40 years ago, it could breathe new life into the MPAA's orphaned AO rating.

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