{"id":13631,"date":"2020-07-26T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2020-07-25T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T02:06:52","slug":"arabian-nights-1974-pier-paolo-pasolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13631","title":{"rendered":"Arabian Nights (1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It [was] Cannes Month… but after Bacurau<\/a><\/em> I got distracted and thought I might watch the Miguel Gomes epic Arabian Nights<\/a><\/em>… but first, since I’ve seen the other two features in my Pasolini “Trilogy of Life” boxed set, I guess I’ll watch his Arabian Nights<\/em>. It turns out both the Pasolini and the Gomes played Cannes, so Cannes Month continues!<\/p>\n

Zumurrud is a slave allowed to choose her own master – she chooses poor boy Nureddin, gives him the money to buy her and rent a house, but the boy immediately disobeys her and they spend the rest of the movie having adventures trying to reunite.<\/p>\n

N, realizing he got lucky:<\/em>
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Z, king of the realm:<\/em>
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Some of those adventures: an older couple bring home a teenage boy and girl, for a bet, and watch as each kid fucks the other while they sleep. A Christian kidnaps Z and has her whipped, but she escapes and comes upon a city that makes her king, then she orders her tormentors crucified. N is kidnapped and fucked by nuns, is later told a story about Chaplin guy<\/a> Ninetto Davoli who’s supposed to marry a lovely girl but falls for Crazy Budur who kidnap-marries him. A prince finds a girl locked up by a demon underneath the town and loses his shoes fucking her. A girl turns herself to fire, a prince shoots a statue, N encounters a lion in the desert, and so on.<\/p>\n

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It’s easily the best of the three, despite greenscreen effects as poor as the dubbing and losing a star for killing a pigeon onscreen. Or maybe my expectations had been lowered enough, and I knew what to expect, focusing on the authentic ancient settings and landscapes as much as the silly-ass sex comedy.<\/p>\n

Cool sights, unrelated to the plot:<\/em>
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The Devil is Franco Citti, who was in all three movies along with Chaplin Guy – and they were in a fourth Pasolini-written anthology sex comedy at the same time: Bawdy Tales<\/em>, directed by Canterbury<\/em>\/Decameron<\/em> assistant director Sergio Citti. Nureddin is Franco Merli, his career launched by this movie, then ruined the next year by starring in Salo<\/em>. Zumurrud is Ines Pellegrini, who also went on to Salo<\/em>, but worked through the 70’s, mostly last-billed. And Crazy Budur is Claudia Rocchi, later of Yor, the Hunter from the Future<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It [was] Cannes Month… but after Bacurau I got distracted and thought I might watch the Miguel Gomes epic Arabian Nights… but first, since I’ve seen the other two features in my Pasolini “Trilogy of Life” boxed set, I guess I’ll watch his Arabian Nights. It turns out both the Pasolini and the Gomes played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,13,842,332,1959,182,1673],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-criterion","tag-devil","tag-nuns","tag-pier-pasolini","tag-sex","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}