Movie Virgins,
Well if you missed this one, you missed one hell of a ride. The hilarity, the emotions, the confusion.
It’s hard to describe this movie without giving you many details about the production or just explaining out each plot point individually. I think we discussed on the last email chain many of the details. But I have gone on to try to explain this movie to two separate groups of people, they didn’t really get why I was so confused… It must be seen.
I’ve boiled down my confusion to the shift in tone after the boys all go visit the local hooker, from that time on (besides the crabs scenes) the movie turns into a slow melodrama involving pregnancy, abortion, and lost loves. Which on it’s own would have made a fine 80’s movie (st elmos fire, she’s having a baby, all the right moves) but when you slap that on the second half of Porky’s it feels super weird. I watched some of the original Israeli movie “lemon popsicle” (directed by the same guy) and it’s tone feels different from the start.. maybe that’s just the dubbing. It’s also supposedly semi-autobiographical.
There was a LITERAL dick measuring contest!
But I feel that it was a great movie night film, weird and interesting, a lost ‘gem’ from the 80’s
and we’re one step farther through the Cannon canon, we need to watch the documentary as a double feature one day, it’s soooo good.
The nerdy guy likes the girl, but he lets his buddy cheat on her TWICE. once with a dirty hooker! The whole thing would have been weird enough without the sad hooker scene, THAT KID PUKED. So maybe he got what he deserved in the end.
So either we’re back to Bill D, or we press on with Q
Thursday 8:30
I was messing with some stats on the sheet, let me know if it’s slow.
-Mark
The Last American Virgin is a 1982 American sex comedy film written and directed by Boaz Davidson. It is a remake of Davidson's 1978 Israeli film Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle).[1][2]
After the success of the original film and its sequels in Israel, Davidson re-teamed with producers Golan-Globus to attempt to recreate the same success in the United States. Though the film's plot and characters remained largely the same, the setting was updated from 1950s Israel to then-present day suburban Los Angeles. The soundtrack, a major facet of both films, was also updated from the original's golden oldies to more contemporary new wave rock.
