He created the “Satan Wives of Tittfield” and the “Supervixens” his actresses needed at least 105 centimeters bust. But Russ Meyer’s work is anything but Sextrash about his films, women – and why he was considered the first feminist director of USA.
It could also just be stupid Bumsfilmchen. In Germany Russ Meyer’s films were mostly under semi-funny, semi-subterranean trash titles like “The Wives of Satan Tittfield” – published “Drunter, over it and it” or “The love tunnel witches” “Lorna Too much for one man.” Does not sound as if his stripes differ from uptight German bird-comedies like “Greetings from the Lederhosen” or “Schoolgirl Report”.
Far from it: Russ Meyer “the Fellini of eroticism” and “Eisenstein of Sexfilms” is called. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” discovered in Meyers films even “the great Greek tragedies feelings,” even if “in Playmate format”. And as RTL wanted to do plus 1991 again with a few sex strip ratio of the director, was not too bad, to elevate the program transparent decision of the private channel as a “Russ Meyer Retrospective”.
Satansweiber von Tittfield, Die / Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill Die Satansweiber
The master himself always looked at his work with dry understatement. His recipe for a good movie he described as: “.. Each film begins with me I need to get a Harten at the idea” The man – famous for its permissive subjects of sex and violence – called himself simply a “tits fetishists” and like known in interviews that he no woman with a chest circumference of less than 105 centimeters comes to bed….
Russ Meyer Movies:Who will pick up beer, to see who shag
Those who still wish that Master interpreted his work, mostly bite on granite. As Meyer 1981 toured Germany to promote the reissue of some old movies, the press noted fully thievish joy, with how much he gradlinigem pragmatism on the interest too interpretation joyful film fans responded:
Question: Why in the “Valley of the Ultra-Vixens” the priests get away so bad? “Are you set anti-religious?”
Answer: “I like the priests just as the rapist.”
Question: “Why did you turn into black and white?”
Answer: “I did not have enough money to turn in color can.”
Question: “Why is there a deaf woman in the film?”
Answer: “The actress came from Germany, her accent would have badly fitted into a Southern history, and women like it now not when it synchronizes its voice.”
Another filmmaker wanted to know what are the principles of its narrative structure. Then Meyer: “My films are often shown at parties when a goes into the kitchen and beer has brought, he must in incomes reunion while fucking a few people..”
Russ Meyer Movies:”I work for pleasure and profit”
Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens
His first film turned Russ Meyer 1959 “The Immoral Mr. Teas” is about a man who compulsively all the beautiful women he encounters, naked imagine. What sounds by today’s standards according to the material for a fairly mediocre Sexklamotte, was then breaking dams.
For the uptight America of the late fifties there was no nudity movies. The increasing demand for erotica on the canvas was met with specious documentaries on nudism more bad than good. Like many others, Meyer did not want it to bespähen unattractive women and men cavorting in remote camps and hide their shame with volleyballs. “Mr. Teas”, the Meyer realized in just four days with a friend in the lead role for just under $ 24,000, the zeitgeist – and played more than a million dollars.
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Mudhoney Sunbath
It was just the first of many success. Between 1959 and 1979 he made 23 films, most of them with a small budget and great success. “I work for pleasure and profit,” the director said with a preference for large breasts and always wore his wealth generated in this way also like to flaunt. The 240-pound giant, whose face, if not a dead straight porn beams adorned his upper lip, strongly reminiscent of a bulldog, wore a diamond-encrusted gold Rolex watch to the wrist and heavy gold rings with the initials “R” and “M” his fingers.
He used his wealth to allow the life he wanted to lead. Here, the director took open settings that are not exactly made it easy liberal film fans to worship him. For example, that he had voted for Bush and Reagan conviction, Clinton hate and the Gulf War, for holding “a wonderful thing”. His partners he chose after a self-conceived formula: the greater the chest, the smaller the mind. Questioned in a 1993 interview with the “taz” according to this questionable relationship recipe, Meyer answer with another question: Why should he have a wife with whom he can have a good time and was terribly intelligent, but “not really a sex machine, not incredibly voluptuous “?
Russ Meyer Movies:”An excellent, aggressive sexual object”
Supervixens
The world of his films, however, shows just the opposite: it is populated by village idiots who do not know how to satisfy their women, sexfixierten Sabbergreisen, stupid motorcycle rockers and muscle weak-minded men. You facing a series – yes, großbusiger – but also strong Amazons. Formidable actresses with names like Kitten Natividad, Erica Gavin, Lorna Maitland, Tura Satana Uschi Digard and.
In Meyers films they play women, for men usually are nothing more than sex objects to which they satisfy their lust. They brought the film critics to the bosom friend who likes to let go chauvinistic statements as “America’s first feminist director” to cheer.
The gender image of the director derives about Jimmy McDonough Meyer in his biography “Big Bosoms And Square Jaws” from from the Life of the filmmaker. Meyers father – a German-born cop and player – had left his mother before he was born. His mother Lydia loved Meyer idolatrous. “She then sold her wedding ring to me to buy my first camera,” the director once told a friend, “what more can a mother do for her son?” And while Meyer had hired a florist to ask after her death every year a Christmas tree on her grave, he had 77 years with nothing but anger and contempt for his father left. Asked in 1999 by his biographer McDonough after him, the director replied only: “He was a bastard, useless and worthless.”
But this is only a weak indication of the motivation for Russ Meyer’s extraordinary films. The gap between life and work of cult director will no longer be close. He died in 2004 at the age of 82 years.
A happy life seemed to have had all Meyer. In 1993, he boasted 71-year-old in an interview with the “taz”: “I am very muscular and feel like a 23 year old I’m having sex with a 30-year-old woman who is an excellent, aggressive sexual object you always cries.. according to me: ‘Come here at last, I need it now!’ ”
On March 21, 2012 Russ Meyer would have been 90 years old. On his grave stone “King of the nude movies” and “I was happy to do it” is.
