1. Only during sexual relations is it acceptable for one human to bite another. What to make of those who nervously bite their own fingers?
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2. from HOPSCOTCH, 1980 Ronald Neame film starring Walter Mathau and Glenda Jackson
(Upon meeting Jackson's doberman pincher...)
WALTER: Does he bite?
GLENDA: Only people he doesn't like.
WALTER: Oh, I only bite people I like.
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3.
The opening scene of the bizarre and fascinating 1975 French film La Bete/The Beast (dir. Walerian Borowçzyk) shows two horses mating. It is one of the most striking scenes in movie history because Borowczyk shoots it essentially as if the horses were humans in a 70's XXX flick. There isn't the scientific distance of a nature film. There are close-ups--on both sex organs and faces--bringing you as close to knowing what it must feel like to mate as a horse as the famous sex scene in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now shows you how Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland must actually make love.
There are several images in the scene that will make you never look at animals the same way again. Horses really do that to each other? You'll also never look at humans the same way again as there is so much recognizable in the scene. We really are all God's creatures. You might even feel envious of the passion displayed.
One key shot is a close-up of the stallion biting the mare's back, his nostrils flaring, his mouth drooling. Is it for pleasure? Or is it simply difficult to balance while mating when you don't have arms? Maybe I imagined it, but there seems to me to be a glimmer of pleasure in the stallion's eye. Can a horse be a pervert?
Bernard-Henri Lévy sees it this way: “Civilization is seduction. What separates man from the animals is seduction.”
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2. from HOPSCOTCH, 1980 Ronald Neame film starring Walter Mathau and Glenda Jackson
(Upon meeting Jackson's doberman pincher...)
WALTER: Does he bite?
GLENDA: Only people he doesn't like.
WALTER: Oh, I only bite people I like.
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3.
The opening scene of the bizarre and fascinating 1975 French film La Bete/The Beast (dir. Walerian Borowçzyk) shows two horses mating. It is one of the most striking scenes in movie history because Borowczyk shoots it essentially as if the horses were humans in a 70's XXX flick. There isn't the scientific distance of a nature film. There are close-ups--on both sex organs and faces--bringing you as close to knowing what it must feel like to mate as a horse as the famous sex scene in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now shows you how Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland must actually make love.
There are several images in the scene that will make you never look at animals the same way again. Horses really do that to each other? You'll also never look at humans the same way again as there is so much recognizable in the scene. We really are all God's creatures. You might even feel envious of the passion displayed.
One key shot is a close-up of the stallion biting the mare's back, his nostrils flaring, his mouth drooling. Is it for pleasure? Or is it simply difficult to balance while mating when you don't have arms? Maybe I imagined it, but there seems to me to be a glimmer of pleasure in the stallion's eye. Can a horse be a pervert?
Bernard-Henri Lévy sees it this way: “Civilization is seduction. What separates man from the animals is seduction.”