Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWorking as a pornstar while a student at USC, Annabel Chong becomes the hottest ticket in adult entertainment almost overnight when she (over a 10-hour period) has sex with 251 men.Working as a pornstar while a student at USC, Annabel Chong becomes the hottest ticket in adult entertainment almost overnight when she (over a 10-hour period) has sex with 251 men.Working as a pornstar while a student at USC, Annabel Chong becomes the hottest ticket in adult entertainment almost overnight when she (over a 10-hour period) has sex with 251 men.
- Prix
- 1 nomination
- Self
- (as John Bowen)
- Self - Prof. of Anthropology: USC
- (as Dr. Walter Williams)
- Self
- (as Alan Wong)
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- AnecdotesThe 250-man gang bang was halted early due to concerns over the rough treatment Annabel Chong was receiving.
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Robert Black: Put a police officer right here, and you have a girl right here, and have me say, "Will you suck my dick for $50?" and she says, "Yeah," they'll arrest us because that's prostitution and that's a pimp. But because we have this camera here, "We're gonna make a movie now. You're gonna suck my dick and I'm gonna give you $50. We're gonna make a porno," and that's legal.
- ConnexionsFeatures The Jerry Springer Show (1991)
The `porn documentary' is an area that is becoming more popular as porn becomes more mainstream. I have seen several some that aim to just have a laugh (The Legend of Ron Jeremy) and some that are brutally honest (Hardcore). This was one of the first I'd seen and I wasn't sure what the agenda was behind it. For the most part I don't think the makers had any aim but to be honest but fair. This takes us to Chong herself as this is a look at her rather than a look at the business she's in.
Chong changes her story during the film. For some of it she is a porn star who is doing it because it's `the ultimate ego trip' to have all these men wanting to have sex with her. Then we find out more about her teenage gang rape and the whole porn stuff looks different. Later however she lost my vote when she appeared at a Cambridge Uni debate and on channel 4's The Girly Show (that height of political debate) talking about how it was `a p*ss take on the whole western ideal of masculinity' and similar pretentious sounding remarks. That's fine if what you're doing is art, but porn is not art. If you are in any doubt her Cambridge debate is preceded by her boasting about loving anal sex and her pride at doing triple penetration how very Van Gogh!
She comes off very mixed up. At times very reasonable and normal, others very OTT and really into getting f*cked by as many guys as she can then at others we see her tearful confession to her mother and see her slicing up her arm with a knife just so that she can `really feel something'. It's hard to know how to feel about her because she doesn't seem to know who she is and why she's doing the things she does.
For the most part the film just about manages to remain tasteful. It doesn't focus on the sex scenes and tries to have plenty of character study rather than whacking material. However it does use a lot of clips and stuff that don't add to the message but really only serve to spice things up. Some of the scenes have a reason for example the gang bang scenes are in no way erotic and are slightly like watch meat being processed, and Chong has a weird smile the whole time. But some from the start of her career are just there to show off breasts and ass! The only good bit about following her early work is the interviews with directors like John T Bone, Ed Powers, Dick Nasty (here as `Richard'), Ron Jeremy and Robert Black. They don't give much insight into the business but it is clear they don't give much weight to Chong's idea that this is a social comment. In fact they are the first to point out how she was exploited with many of the performers not having had AIDS tests, and also Chong not getting rich from her day's work.
This is a little hard to take. I watched Hardcore where we see Dick Nasty as an agent for an English girl pressuring her into things she didn't want to do. So to hear him take the high ground is a little daft. Robert Black is a regular for documentaries and he always make sense because he is honest about porn `it's f*cking shameful and nasty' he says in `Hardcore' but he does enjoy his work!
Overall this isn't a look at porn but a look at Chong and on that level it isn't great. How can we get who she is when she isn't clear on that herself? It's interesting viewing and slightly depressing to see a woman who is so clearly exploited claiming the artistic high ground, and also seeing someone who is so intelligent (she passes her degree) constantly going back to work in porn. A bit of a muddle but a compelling world to dip into for 90 minutes.......but not any longer than that, thank God.
- bob the moo
- 13 août 2002
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- Секс: История Аннабель Чонг
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Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 233 076 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 12 489 $ US
- 13 févr. 2000