MisterGrey (a man of wealth and taste, no doubt) wrote:
>Susan George was adament about not doing the scene,
but was more or
>less contractually forced!
> into by Peckinpah, who insisted it go on; if her
word is to be
>trusted, he lay on the floor beside the soundstage
while directing
>the scene and mocked being anally insulted; his
interpretation,
>apparently, was that she was enjoying being
raped.
Which is why the film had been unavailable for so long (until
recently) in Britain. The equivalent would be Ned Beatty's
character smiling after his big scene in DELIVERANCE, another
hard book and film that features a brutal rape as a major
plot point.
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