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This BBC article is about Jodorowsky's 1970 film El Tropo.
www.bbc.com
Per the below WikiSnip, an early interview the actor/film director, Alejandro Jodorowsky, said he raped an actress on camera for El Tropo.
Later he claimed he only said that because saying shocking things was the only way to get press attention; since he was an unknown Mexican film maker, In the USA only Hollywood films got any press attention.
When shown the film caused a riot in Mexico and was eventually banned there.
In 1971 in NYC John Lennon and Yoko saw and praised it, turning it into a cult classic with the midnight movie crowd years before 1975's The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Anyway, IMO after claiming to rape a woman on camera (I haven't seen El Tropo, but read the rape seen appears real) and reading about the horrendous things this guy said (quoted below) his work should get ZERO promotion, especially via media attention.
I think the BBC blew really blew it by publishing their article.
IMO giving attention to this guy results in more viewing and profit for him.
This snip is crazy-long; it's part of Wikipedia's entry on Jodorowsky:
en.wikipedia.org
Criticism and controversy[edit]
When Jodorowsky's first feature film, Fando y Lis, premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival, the screening was controversial and erupted into a riot, due to its graphic content.[91] Jodorowsky had to leave the theatre by sneaking outside to a waiting limousine, and when the crowd outside the theatre recognized him, the car was pelted with rocks.[92] The following week, the film opened to sell-out crowds in Mexico City, but more fights broke out, and the film was banned by the Mexican government.[93] Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported and the controversy provided a great deal of fodder for the Mexican newspapers.[94]
In regard to the making of El Topo, Jodorowsky allegedly stated in the early 1970s:
In the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, Jodorowsky states:
When these alleged comments came to light, as a response to the ensuing backlash, Alejandro Jodorowsky announced that he did not recall making those remarks, but admitted that he often used shock value and impersonation to get noticed in the early 1970s press. He made a thorough statement[97] on his Facebook account on 26 June 2017, in response to the question: Did you rape an actress during the filming of El Topo?
The following excerpts are from said statement:
Jodorowsky also offered details in that same statement on the filming of the so-called "rape scene", proclaiming that it would be impossible to commit such a crime on a large movie set:
As a result of these alleged statements, Jodorowsky has been criticised.[98][99] Matt Brown of Screen Anarchywrote that "it's easier to wall off a certain type of criminality behind the buffer of time—sure, Alejandro Jodorowsky is on the record in his book on the making of the film as having raped Mara Lorenzo while making El Topo—though he later denied it—but nowadays he's just that hilarious old kook from Jodorowsky's Dune!"[99] Emmet Asher-Perrin of Tor.com called Jodorowsky "an artist who condones rape as a means to an end for the purpose of creating art. A man who seems to believe that rape is something that women 'need' if they can't accept male sexual power on their own".[98] Sady Doyle of Elle wrote that Jodorowsky "has been teasing the idea of an unsimulated rape scene in his cult classic film El Topo for decades ... though he's elsewhere described the unsimulated sex in that scene as consensual", and went on to state that the quote "has not endangered his status as an avant-garde icon".[100]
This BBC article is about Jodorowsky's 1970 film El Tropo.
El Topo: The weirdest western ever made
El Topo was the original ‘midnight movie’, and inspired the sub-genre of the ‘acid western’, writes Larushka Ivan-Zadeh.
www.bbc.com
Per the below WikiSnip, an early interview the actor/film director, Alejandro Jodorowsky, said he raped an actress on camera for El Tropo.
Later he claimed he only said that because saying shocking things was the only way to get press attention; since he was an unknown Mexican film maker, In the USA only Hollywood films got any press attention.
When shown the film caused a riot in Mexico and was eventually banned there.
In 1971 in NYC John Lennon and Yoko saw and praised it, turning it into a cult classic with the midnight movie crowd years before 1975's The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Anyway, IMO after claiming to rape a woman on camera (I haven't seen El Tropo, but read the rape seen appears real) and reading about the horrendous things this guy said (quoted below) his work should get ZERO promotion, especially via media attention.
I think the BBC blew really blew it by publishing their article.
IMO giving attention to this guy results in more viewing and profit for him.
This snip is crazy-long; it's part of Wikipedia's entry on Jodorowsky:
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Wikipedia
Criticism and controversy[edit]
When Jodorowsky's first feature film, Fando y Lis, premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival, the screening was controversial and erupted into a riot, due to its graphic content.[91] Jodorowsky had to leave the theatre by sneaking outside to a waiting limousine, and when the crowd outside the theatre recognized him, the car was pelted with rocks.[92] The following week, the film opened to sell-out crowds in Mexico City, but more fights broke out, and the film was banned by the Mexican government.[93] Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported and the controversy provided a great deal of fodder for the Mexican newspapers.[94]
In regard to the making of El Topo, Jodorowsky allegedly stated in the early 1970s:
In the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, Jodorowsky states:
When these alleged comments came to light, as a response to the ensuing backlash, Alejandro Jodorowsky announced that he did not recall making those remarks, but admitted that he often used shock value and impersonation to get noticed in the early 1970s press. He made a thorough statement[97] on his Facebook account on 26 June 2017, in response to the question: Did you rape an actress during the filming of El Topo?
The following excerpts are from said statement:
Jodorowsky also offered details in that same statement on the filming of the so-called "rape scene", proclaiming that it would be impossible to commit such a crime on a large movie set:
As a result of these alleged statements, Jodorowsky has been criticised.[98][99] Matt Brown of Screen Anarchywrote that "it's easier to wall off a certain type of criminality behind the buffer of time—sure, Alejandro Jodorowsky is on the record in his book on the making of the film as having raped Mara Lorenzo while making El Topo—though he later denied it—but nowadays he's just that hilarious old kook from Jodorowsky's Dune!"[99] Emmet Asher-Perrin of Tor.com called Jodorowsky "an artist who condones rape as a means to an end for the purpose of creating art. A man who seems to believe that rape is something that women 'need' if they can't accept male sexual power on their own".[98] Sady Doyle of Elle wrote that Jodorowsky "has been teasing the idea of an unsimulated rape scene in his cult classic film El Topo for decades ... though he's elsewhere described the unsimulated sex in that scene as consensual", and went on to state that the quote "has not endangered his status as an avant-garde icon".[100]
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