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500 SHADES OF GREY
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500 SHADES OF GREY Not a mistake, a human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of grey – why stick at 50? Though booksellers are doing very well out of E L James’ book Fifty Shades of Grey, almost everyone we know who have read the book have been disappointed. Have you read the book? Did you like it? Given Sylvia Kristel’s death on Thursday, 18 October 2012, it is time for Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele to move over. Sylvia Kristel was most famous for starring in the Emmanuelle film, one of the first mainstream soft porn films. The 1974 Emmanuelle film was based on Emmanuelle Arsan's 1959 book, Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman. More than 350 million people worldwide have seen the Emmanuelle film.  Have you read the book or seen the film? Fifty Shades of Grey has sold so far 40 million copies worldwide. And Hollywood beckons for the book, but it has a long way to go before overtaking Emmanuelle. Emmanuelle was the forerunner to, and will probably eclipse over time, Fifty Shades of Grey. Eat your heart out Anastasia and Christian! May we tempt you inside for more on Emmanuelle and Sylvia Kristel? |
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Sylvia Kristel was working as a secretary for a Dutch agency casting for the Emmanuelle film. Though she had not planned to audition, the film's director asked to her to remove her clothes. She got the part. [image]
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Originally banned in France, Emmanuelle went on to become one of the most successful French films. The film, with English subtitles for tourists, was shown at a cinema on the Champs Elysees for a record 13 years. [image]
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In the UK, an edited version of the Emmanuelle film was given an X-certificate, but the uncut version could only be seen in 2007. [image]
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Recently Sylvia Kristel said: "Apart from a few feminists, I remember everyone treating me like a queen". [image]
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In Sylvia Kristel’s 2007 memoir, Undressing Emmanuelle, Sylvia Kristel wrote: "I was dressed, but people preferred me naked. I spoke, but they like me better silent or dubbed." [image]
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Jean-Francois Rauger, the Le Monde film critic, wrote that "Sylvia Kristel was an icon and nobody worried whether she could act or not." Premiere, the French film industry website, described Sylvia Kristel as "the eternal embodiment of sexual liberation." Ian Christie, the Professor of Film History at the University of London, said that Sylvia Kristel was "the acceptable face of porn in the 1970s". [image]
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Sylvia Kristel featured in over 50 films, including four of the seven Emmanuelle films. [image]
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Later Sylvia Kristel returned to The Netherlands, where she died, aged 60, after a battle with throat cancer. [image]
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Don't forget about "The Story of O!" Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. ~~ from Antony & Cleopatra
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It's amazing the book went mainstream, and E L James deserves much credit for that. xx
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i haven't read it and don't plan on doing so... i don't see the big wow about it? xx
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Don't forget about "The Story of O!" xx
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