Day 23: They came to make us suffer the tortures of Sodom.
My pick for today is....
Despite the grim subject throughout the film, in an interview on the second disc of the Criterion Collection box set, actress Hélène Surgère claimed the mood was actually rather jovial on the set. She said the abundance of teenagers who had never acted before led the mood to be happy and at times, even fun, with the cast often playing practical jokes on each other. She also said that the movie was literally "made" in the editing room and the filmmakers had no idea how grim a movie it was until they saw the finished product at the premiere.
The notorious scene where a young woman is forced to eat excrement was intended by Pier Paolo Pasolini as a metaphor for consumer capitalism and the rise of the junk food culture.
The "excrement" in the coprophagia scenes was a mixture of chocolate and orange marmalade, made disgusting by being excessively sweet and added with some other clashing ingredients. The disgusted reactions were real.
First part of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Death. The subsequent two parts were never filmed because Pasolini was murdered some months after he had finished this movie. The trilogy was intended as complementary to the previous Trilogy of Life, including The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Arabian Nights (1974).
Ennio Morricone, who composed the jazzy soundtrack, said he was very uncomfortable watching the movie.
by Shawn
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