{"id":18714,"date":"2026-06-30T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18714"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:58:58","slug":"turks-fruit-1973-paul-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18714","title":{"rendered":"Turks Fruit (1973, Paul Verhoeven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rutger is an impulsive dickhead artist, until he meets redheaded Olga while hitchhiking and they get the amour fou.  He does not murder her &#8211; that was a fantasy scene to set a sour doomed tone early on, but she does crash the car while he&#8217;s being reckless, my <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18704\">second one<\/a> of those in consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rutger with a different girl and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14187\">Jane Fonda<\/a>:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/turks1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The couple with his friend Paul (Dolf de Vries, whose name was stolen for <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17540\">Black Book<\/a>):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/turks2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>No normal scenes in this movie, there&#8217;s something intense or extreme in every one.  Feature debut of both leads (who would reunite in Verhoeven&#8217;s <em>Katie Tippel<\/em>) and a bold statement of perversity from the new-ish director.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/turks3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Our lovers get married, as the movie flits between body horror and sex comedy.  Two years after the hitchhiking incident she leaves him when he&#8217;s horrible at a restaurant, vomiting on everyone, and the movie loops back to the beginning.  Rutger has acted unforgivably to everyone he&#8217;s met for years, but he also helps an injured seagull one time, so we&#8217;ll call it even.  They both clean themselves up, Rutger in particular becoming more civilized than ever, but she&#8217;s acting erratic, dying from a brain tumor.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/turks5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/turks4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/turks6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutger is an impulsive dickhead artist, until he meets redheaded Olga while hitchhiking and they get the amour fou. He does not murder her &#8211; that was a fantasy scene to set a sour doomed tone early on, but she does crash the car while he&#8217;s being reckless, my second one of those in consecutive [&hellip;]<\/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":[400,1753,239,119,1387,182],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-amour-fou","tag-birds","tag-paul-verhoeven","tag-rutger-hauer","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714","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=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18767,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions\/18767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}