Donald Sutherland's Buttocks, or Sex in Movies for People Who Have Sex by Jonathon Lethem

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thanks for posting that firstworldman, i enjoyed the essay but i have absolutely nothing to say about it :/

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm mostly on-board w. Letham and want to second his Belle du Jour & Me and You and Everyone sentiments. I disagree w. Y Tu Mama Tambien, however.

Thank you.

The pithy and unprofound

procrastinatory, masturbatory

Remy.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Well.

Eh, the scene has been so over-reviewed that I doubt there's much left to say.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm looking forward to that Miranda July movie. Ebert RAVED about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 April 2005 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link

me too. i may be going to see it on friday.

i also thought about animal house when i clicked on this thread (i still haven't seen don't look now)

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i've seen both.

recent tv edits i've seen of "animal house" (look, i was bored and at my parents', okay?) have digitally-added pants.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link

NO WAY

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link

that may just be the normal tv version (no crazy cgi), i know they shot different version of the scene where belushi peeps thru the sorority window.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

haha - "I Don't Believe It!"

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link

yea, i toatally thought animal house. i love the way that scene has but reciprosity, first you get Karen Allen's butt for the lads, then not a moment later the ladies are catered for.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw animal house, but only once and quite a while ago, could someone refresh my memory?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 14 April 2005 08:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm mostly on-board w. Letham and want to second his Belle du Jour & Me and You and Everyone sentiments.
I watched the commentary for the former and it was suggested that Severine was sodomized because A) the other employees turned down the Asian man's suggestions, B) the gentleman never removed Severine's top, and C) she's found lying on her stomach afterward and Alice brings the blanket over Severine's derriere. Severine may finally been fulfilled by the violence of the act (mirroring her fantasies about being whipped and whatnot at the beginning of the film) and I found that all curiously interesting.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 14 April 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

could someone refresh my memory?

Some of the students go round to hip, pot-smoking professor (Sutherland)'s house, where he greets them wearing, I think, an apron. When the camera shows him from behind, we see from his bare buttocks that he has nothing on under the apron.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

no it is later, when boone finds out katie is cheating on him because the professor is at katie's house. and he's wearing a sweater.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Porky Pig Style

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha my first thought was "ANIMAL HOUSE!!!!!!"

me too Dan, me too.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Stence, you're absolutely right. I am disgusted at myself for getting it wrong. Fuck.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

it's okay, it's okay, take a deep breath.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

ahhhh... i see. i had no recollection of donald sutherland being in animal house.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

My parents being irresposible hippies took me along to see it in the theaters with them, I must've been about five. I had a childhood crush on Donald Sutherland and I blame it on this buttocks scene.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

he's the potsmoking prof who fesses up to milton sucking. rockt the house.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Revive...

Lethem just won a MacArthur genius grant.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"(Oh, yes, I meet it often when I watch Barbara Stanwyck, and I wonder where our Barbara Stanwyck is hiding . . . might it be Maggie Gyllenhaal? On the strength of Secretary it seems possible . . . but then why aren't today's filmmakers making dozens of Maggie Gyllenhaal vehicles . . . what's their problem?)"

this statement is inexcusable and wrong

― _, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha my first thought was "ANIMAL HOUSE!!!!!!"

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), April 14th, 2005.

same here!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

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