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(announcer speaking in foreign language)

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(upbeat music)

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- Believe me, you wouldn't
want to be an air hostess.

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I've never been pinched
so often in my life.

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I'm black and blue all over.

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Just a minute, I'll show you.

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- Oh, I'm half-convinced already.

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But why did you decide to
change your profession?

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- I'm not really certain.

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Of course, it's true that my old life

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was dreadfully exhausting,
but I always enjoyed myself.

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- Well, they say a change
is as good as a rest.

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Do you agree?

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- Yes, that's quite true.

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And I believe one should be prepared

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to face new experiences
whenever destiny offers them.

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- So this is just a passing fancy.

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- Everything's a passing fancy, you know.

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The important thing is for an experience

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to have a creative value.

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- Couldn't too much experience damage

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your creative capacity?

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- No, I think it gets deeper and wider.

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- Oh, that certainly
makes sense. (chuckles)

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- (chuckles) I hope you're thinking

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of the same kind of experience as I am.

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- But surely the range that
a nightclub has to offer

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is very limited, isn't it?

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- On the contrary, it's vast.

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You see, for example,

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when a striptease artiste
is undressing physically,

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she's making the
spectator undress morally.

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The situation is the opposite
of what everyone thinks.

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It's not the girl on the stage

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who's the degrading
spectacle, it's the audience.

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Wouldn't you agree?

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- That's a very interesting theory.

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Can you clarify it?

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- Do you really not understand?

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- Well, the audience pays for
their entertainment, after all.

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Don't you think they're entitled to it?

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- Not all of them, just some.

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You see, there's a violent,
sadistic element in many

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of the spectators that
a striptease artiste is

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perfectly entitled to punish
with her body...

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- Sort of law of the jungle,
right here in the city.

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Is that it?
- The two masochists said,

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"If you scratch my back,
I'll scratch yours."

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But I can give you a better
example from my travels.

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(Chinese-like music)

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Do you know Hong Kong?

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I've just come from there.

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It's a crazy city.

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The British still play it
being colonialists,

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and the Chinese communists
play it being capitalists.

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And women of all races
play even stranger games.

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And if they don't give you a big hand,

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they may well give you the clap.

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But not my friend Susie Atwell.

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Have you heard of her?

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She's famous in the Far East.

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She works in a ping pong club.

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- [Interviewer] They don't
seem very good players to me.

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- [Interviewee] Oh, they're not.

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They're just a pretext
to bring on Suzy's act.

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You can see why this club is known

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as the ping pong paradise.

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- [Interviewer] You said it.

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But what will happen if they
decide to take up basketball?

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(both laugh)
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Times have changed.

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So have the audiences.

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I'll try to explain what's happened.

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A striptease isn't enough
for the audiences nowadays.

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They want something more violent.

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In order to make an impression today,

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the artiste has to take
advantage of the oldest trick

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in the book:
exploiting her sex.

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- Thank you.

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- And here's to it.
- You said it.

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- In Greek comedies,

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the actors used to wear
high boots and masks

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and long cloaks and
everything, but everything

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was exaggerated to
emphasize the sexual aspect.

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- Aren't you exaggerating right now?

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- And what about their tragedies?

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They're full of rape, incest,

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and every kind of adultery,
especially with animals.

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And after the Greeks, what next?

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More sex. The Bible is full of it.

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Have you ever read anything as sexy

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as the Song of Solomon, or
the story of Herod and Salome,

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or David and Jonathan,
or the Queen of Sheba?

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And don't forget the woman
taken into adultery. (chuckles)

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Every writer uses sex.

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Chaucer and Shakespeare
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of the Restoration.

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Not to mention Byron, Shelley
and Keats.

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Today, people want it more direct,

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but the underlying motive is the same.

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(upbeat, percussive music)
(wind blowing)

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Even the religious
ceremonies of ancient peoples

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in all times have a sexual background.

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(upbeat music)
(wind whooshing)

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(funky music)

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Ancient rites have always been danced

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in what people would call
an outrageously sensual way.

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My friend Jean Wawal is
in Dallas, Texas, right now,

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performing an elaborate tribal
dance of the Cherokee Indians

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with a particularly interesting symbol:

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the wahkunsa,
traditional Cherokee boots.

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(upbeat music continues)

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The audience doesn't realize

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that the fur boots are meant to tease.

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They're the way the
artiste wields her power

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over the public.

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She strips down to her
booties but leaves them on,

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and the insatiable unconscious curiosity

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of the spectators focuses on her feet,

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the only thing they can't see.

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(exciting music)

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(audience clapping)

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What I want to say is that
there's always an element

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of ritual in every performance that is

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in any way connected with
the representations of sex.

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And this is because the
sex act itself follows

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a precise ritualistic pattern,
a ritual with its roots lost

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in the dawn of time,
yet always the same,

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although the forms vary as we all realize,

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if we think of our personal behavior.

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Let me give you a common example.

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(upbeat music)
(wind whooshing)

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A huge seaside city, famous for
the variety of fun and games

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it can provide, among which
are these floating love-nests,

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conceived, constructed, marketed,

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and manned for no other purpose.

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And here, not even the act of
seduction can escape the sense

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of a final ritual, which
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with the one followed by our
ancient forebears, the apes.

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(upbeat music)

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The female finds some
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her availability, thus
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of the male, whose mind may
temporarily be on other things.

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The male begins to carry
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the delousing, in the
case of monkeys, that is.

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We have more refined techniques,

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even if they're all the same
in the end.

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And we soon reach the final stage,

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the same for mice or monkeys or men.

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(upbeat music)

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Now, let's get back to show
business and its sensual

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implications, which are
always a constant part of it,

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which is only logical, if
we think of it as a fantasy

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representation of reality with
sex as a necessary component.

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(upbeat music)

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The so-called classical
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of, say, Damascus or Istanbul
or Cairo,

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is the famous belly dance.

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(exciting music)

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Why they call it the belly
dance, I can't imagine.

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The belly is only part of it.

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The dancer writhes and wiggles
and shakes and twists,

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and attention focuses less on
her belly than on her boobs.

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One of the greatest performers

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of this dance is my friend, Aisha.

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(upbeat music)

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Aisha is very original

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because she has brought a
modern sexy quality to a dance

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which, even though it is based
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is in its original form extremely chaste.

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The result is a much
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sexual excitement, that is,
and therefore a greater degree

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of aggression towards the audience.

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(upbeat music)

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Did you see what I mean?

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- [Interviewer] Now I
understand what you said

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about the artiste undressing physically,

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but stripping the
spectators bare mentally.

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(upbeat music)

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I find this reaction astonishing.

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You mean...

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Because they're homosexual?
- Right!

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- Don't forget

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that this dance is a spiritual
exaltation of the ass.

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- That makes hash of the
theory of contrasting folds.

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- No, no, there are no
absolute values in nature,

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female or male.

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- I think this interview is turning

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into some kind of anthropology lesson.

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- (indistinct)

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I was just trying to
outline the consequences

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of my theory on the
effect of sensual arousal

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as the essentially intellectual,

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which allows the artiste
to assert her influence

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on the public, whatever their
specific sexual inclinations

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happen to be.

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- Could you give us a different example?

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- Of course. You only have to
take a look

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at Northern Europe, at the
so-called vice capitals.

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(upbeat music)

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(gentle guitar music)

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(slow, intense music)

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The Nordic races, with
their deep-seated fear

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of sex instilled by religious traditions

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and their liberal behavior resulting

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from political choice based
on ancestral individualism,

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are particularly subject to
an extremely cerebral type

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of stimulation.

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And an essential element
in this excitability

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is the contrast of the
normal and the abnormal.

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- [Interviewer] Then according to you,

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they're not voyeurs but philosophers.

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- [Interviewee] Call them
what you like, but remember

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that there is nothing
stupider than feeling superior

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to someone who behaves differently
just because he does so.

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(upbeat music)

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You must have noticed that
the most excited spectators

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were the women, the very ones
who ought to have been disgusted.

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- Perhaps their curiosity was aroused.

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- No, curiosity has nothing
whatsoever to do with it,

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even though curiosity is often given

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as the motive for carrying
out certain experiments

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on sexual activities and behaviorism.

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- Then you think that what
happens in an elegant nightclub

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could also happen in a sideshow tent.

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- Well, I guess it could

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with inevitable variations, of course.

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- A more rough and ready show,
but essentially the same.

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- Yes, one of the components of this show

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would naturally be more in evidence.

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Which one?

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The violence would appear
in a much less subtle form.

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(upbeat music)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(upbeat music)

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- In a country where the
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the same goes for costumes.

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Bras and panties have gone
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and if a show is going to be exciting,

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it has to come on strong.

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(upbeat music)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(audience clapping)

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- [Interviewer] But why the mud?

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- [Interviewee] It's
another sensual element.

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Sadomasochistic, in this case.

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It satisfies the unconscious desire

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in everyone to dominate our
partners up to the point

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of defiling them.

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(upbeat music)
(audience shouting)

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(upbeat rock music)

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To state it in mathematical terms,

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even if you alter the
order of the factors,

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the product remains identical.

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Isn't that so?

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- Yes, but the factors are always women.

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- My most famous number was,
to all outward appearances,

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a tribute to male beauty in
the sense of classical statuary

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reproduced in living flesh.

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00:37:23,742 --> 00:37:27,746
But below the surface, lay the
usual sadomasochistic theme:

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the humiliation of the male,
to whose outward appearance

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there is hardly a corresponding
degree of, shall we say,

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efficiency, and humiliation
for the female, who with

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useless determination, attempts
to stimulate this efficiency

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but in vain.

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She offers herself to him
in every possible way.

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And what does he do? Nothing.

271
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She dances, she writhes,
she grows insistent.

272
00:37:52,228 --> 00:37:53,229
And what does he do?

273
00:37:53,229 --> 00:37:54,397
- [Interviewer] He's a hard case.

274
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:56,357
I don't know if "hard" is
the right word.

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(both laughing)

276
00:38:02,322 --> 00:38:04,949
(upbeat music)

277
00:41:44,085 --> 00:41:46,838
Oh, what's happening?

278
00:41:46,838 --> 00:41:48,297
Is everything there?

279
00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:49,799
All right, so long.

280
00:41:50,717 --> 00:41:52,969
Oh, I suppose you still have
a lot of questions to ask me.

281
00:41:52,969 --> 00:41:54,887
- When you were performing that number,

282
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didn't you feel humiliated?

283
00:41:56,973 --> 00:41:57,807
- Not in the slightest.

284
00:41:57,807 --> 00:41:59,267
You see, I know that if I really tried,

285
00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:01,686
I could get a rise out of
a piece of cold macaroni.

286
00:42:03,229 --> 00:42:04,480
We just wanted to give a little comfort

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to anyone who can't get it up.

288
00:42:05,648 --> 00:42:06,733
Let's hear more about violence, can we?

289
00:42:06,733 --> 00:42:07,734
- The more skillful the artiste,

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00:42:07,734 --> 00:42:09,777
the greater the sensation she arouses.

291
00:42:10,945 --> 00:42:12,280
- But art means communication.

292
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:13,990
- Of course, it does.

293
00:42:13,990 --> 00:42:15,825
- Isn't there a contradiction
in what you're saying?

294
00:42:15,825 --> 00:42:16,784
- Do you think so?

295
00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:19,120
I'll try and explain to you.

296
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,914
You see, beauty doesn't
really arouse any emotions.

297
00:42:21,914 --> 00:42:23,624
- I don't agree.

298
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:25,084
- No, it's true.

299
00:42:25,084 --> 00:42:26,210
In other words, while beauty

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in itself can undoubtedly
arouse a variety of sensations of

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00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:31,299
a certain interest, it fails to excite

302
00:42:31,299 --> 00:42:32,592
the same profound reactions

303
00:42:32,592 --> 00:42:34,719
that are the essential object
of artistic expressions.

304
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:35,636
- Are violent sensations indispensable?

305
00:42:35,636 --> 00:42:37,388
- Oh, I think they're
underlying everything,

306
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the whole basis.

307
00:42:38,639 --> 00:42:40,600
Of course, a beautiful
sight can also produce

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certain agreeable reactions.

309
00:42:43,686 --> 00:42:46,272
(upbeat music)

310
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,733
Take a closer look and
you'll see this is just, well,

311
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to put it frankly, it's lifeless.

312
00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:35,571
It just doesn't turn you on.

313
00:43:35,571 --> 00:43:38,866
Like those floor shows they
tell you are really wild.

314
00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:40,785
Then you find out they're
about as wild as life

315
00:43:40,785 --> 00:43:44,163
in a monastery, or less.

316
00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:46,749
(upbeat music)

317
00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:54,674
(dancers singing in foreign language)

318
00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:36,716
Performances of this type
belong to the ancient history

319
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of sex shows by now,
just as Paris has become

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the world capital of
old-fashioned conformity.

321
00:44:42,555 --> 00:44:44,807
The modern spectator
demands something different.

322
00:44:44,807 --> 00:44:47,310
And it is up to us in our roles
as artistes and performers

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to satisfy this.

324
00:44:48,895 --> 00:44:50,646
I'm always ready to do my duty.

325
00:44:50,646 --> 00:44:52,773
That's what it means to be a professional.

326
00:44:56,986 --> 00:44:59,572
(smooth, lounge-y music)

327
00:45:34,148 --> 00:45:35,524
For one day only,

328
00:45:35,524 --> 00:45:38,319
Omar, the world's greatest lover.

329
00:45:38,319 --> 00:45:41,322
This is the kind of show that
will arouse today's audiences.

330
00:45:42,823 --> 00:45:44,492
He's a rather brutal lover.

331
00:45:44,492 --> 00:45:46,452
A great lover can't be anything else.

332
00:45:46,452 --> 00:45:49,247
He doesn't have time to
waste on love-play.

333
00:45:51,332 --> 00:45:53,918
(music continues)

334
00:47:58,459 --> 00:48:01,212
(music builds in intensity)

335
00:49:12,450 --> 00:49:13,993
- [Interviewer] I think that's cheating.

336
00:49:13,993 --> 00:49:15,494
It means the great lover is no better

337
00:49:15,494 --> 00:49:16,871
than the living statue.

338
00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:18,497
- [Interviewee] Well, you see,
he needs to be provoked by

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some sort of insult to
his professional dignity.

340
00:49:28,174 --> 00:49:30,759
(music continues)

341
00:51:26,375 --> 00:51:29,378
(audience clapping)

342
00:51:33,549 --> 00:51:37,344
The show is over. The performance
is finished, and behold

343
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:40,055
the happy couple who will soon be enjoying

344
00:51:40,055 --> 00:51:43,142
its liberating effects in
the comfort of their own bed.

345
00:51:44,643 --> 00:51:46,312
And I'm sure they're not the only ones

346
00:51:46,312 --> 00:51:47,521
who are feeling that way.

347
00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:50,024
There must be many of you
out there who have noticed

348
00:51:50,024 --> 00:51:53,777
the liberating effects
of Omar's performance.

349
00:51:53,777 --> 00:51:56,947
It's a kind of catharsis in
which the artist functions more

350
00:51:56,947 --> 00:52:00,701
successfully than any doctor
or psychologist, to free us

351
00:52:00,701 --> 00:52:03,787
from those innumerable sexual
taboos, which centuries

352
00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:08,459
of sexual fear have created
between men and women.

353
00:52:18,010 --> 00:52:20,804
These taboos have been
branded as being beyond hope

354
00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:21,972
of redemption.

355
00:52:21,972 --> 00:52:24,933
Practically all sexual
manifestations, to the point where

356
00:52:24,933 --> 00:52:27,311
we connect the concept of punishment

357
00:52:27,311 --> 00:52:28,937
with that of sexual gratification.

358
00:52:29,980 --> 00:52:33,317
Famous spoilsports like
Luther and Calvin spread this

359
00:52:33,317 --> 00:52:36,028
ridiculous sense of guilt
through half the peoples

360
00:52:36,028 --> 00:52:38,697
of central Europe, favoring
the birth of sadism

361
00:52:38,697 --> 00:52:40,240
and masochism.

362
00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:42,910
It is due to them that
certain strange manifestations

363
00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:45,913
of sexual activity
originated in the shadows

364
00:52:45,913 --> 00:52:47,331
of Gothic spires.

365
00:52:47,331 --> 00:52:49,875
(upbeat music)

366
00:52:51,877 --> 00:52:56,882
(whip thudding)
(upbeat music)

367
00:54:34,188 --> 00:54:37,357
(upbeat music)

368
00:55:17,981 --> 00:55:20,859
One good turn deserves
another, apparently.

369
00:55:20,859 --> 00:55:24,488
Naturally, it's a matter
of sensual equality,

370
00:55:24,488 --> 00:55:27,366
but he gets an added refined touch.

371
00:55:27,366 --> 00:55:30,285
(speaking foreign
language) The saying goes.

372
00:55:30,285 --> 00:55:33,914
"We're born in excrement,
and we often die in it, too."

373
00:55:33,914 --> 00:55:37,459
But some people like to live
in it and to love in it.

374
00:55:37,459 --> 00:55:39,169
- [Interviewer] How awful.

375
00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:40,504
- [Interviewee] It's a question of taste.

376
00:55:49,429 --> 00:55:51,431
And he seems to like the taste.

377
00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:53,725
I suppose there are gourmets in this field,

378
00:55:53,725 --> 00:55:56,186
just like the ones who judge
meat by the way an animal

379
00:55:56,186 --> 00:55:57,104
was fed.

380
00:55:57,104 --> 00:55:59,940
Who knows what the poor girl had to eat.

381
00:55:59,940 --> 00:56:02,526
(upbeat music)

382
00:57:25,817 --> 00:57:28,528
(upbeat music)

383
00:58:17,119 --> 00:58:21,248
And now the cycle is complete.
German efficiency, naturally.

384
00:58:23,709 --> 00:58:26,294
(upbeat music)

385
00:59:15,844 --> 00:59:19,848
(psychedelic music)

386
00:59:27,606 --> 00:59:31,401
And since the German soul
is fundamentally romantic,

387
00:59:31,401 --> 00:59:33,945
this is the joyful climax.

388
00:59:33,945 --> 00:59:36,823
Obviously, it's more exciting
to be whipped by a gladiator

389
00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:39,993
in a helmet than by a
bookkeeper with adenoids.

390
00:59:49,586 --> 00:59:52,172
(upbeat music)

391
01:00:50,772 --> 01:00:54,109
(psychedelic music)

392
01:01:02,784 --> 01:01:04,870
So much for the romantic soul.

393
01:01:08,206 --> 01:01:10,917
Now let's turn to something classic.

394
01:01:13,295 --> 01:01:15,881
(upbeat music)

395
01:01:35,901 --> 01:01:39,321
The island of Delos, seat
of the Attic confederation

396
01:01:39,321 --> 01:01:42,532
four centuries BC, has a regular forest

397
01:01:42,532 --> 01:01:46,328
of objects like this.
Made of marble, naturally,

398
01:01:46,328 --> 01:01:48,496
which lends its own special charm.

399
01:01:50,123 --> 01:01:53,335
Here we have to manage with
expanded polystyrene.

400
01:01:54,669 --> 01:01:56,713
Classical scholars see these monuments

401
01:01:56,713 --> 01:02:00,050
as symbols of fertility and abundance.

402
01:02:00,050 --> 01:02:03,386
To me, they just symbolize
the secret dreams of men

403
01:02:03,386 --> 01:02:04,888
and women.

404
01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:10,018
You know, Freud wrote a
whole book on penis envy.

405
01:02:12,938 --> 01:02:15,523
(upbeat music)

406
01:04:06,801 --> 01:04:09,179
It's a cycle that's being
constantly repeated over

407
01:04:09,179 --> 01:04:11,556
and over again in the history of humanity.

408
01:04:11,556 --> 01:04:13,933
After every period of
stern sexual repression,

409
01:04:13,933 --> 01:04:16,061
there is a period of
complete sexual freedom.

410
01:04:16,061 --> 01:04:18,480
- Akind of historical about-face, hmm?

411
01:04:19,481 --> 01:04:20,940
- Yes, you could call it that.

412
01:04:20,940 --> 01:04:22,192
(both laughs)

413
01:04:22,192 --> 01:04:23,360
In fact, that's a very good way

414
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:24,819
of describing the phenomenon.

415
01:04:24,819 --> 01:04:26,404
- So at the present time,
we're in a period when

416
01:04:26,404 --> 01:04:27,989
the time is telling.
- That's very obvious.

417
01:04:27,989 --> 01:04:31,117
(upbeat music)

418
01:04:31,117 --> 01:04:32,827
Look at the Americans.

419
01:04:32,827 --> 01:04:34,120
They still haven't gotten away

420
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:38,208
from the Pilgrim Fathers
Puritanism, and they suffer for it.

421
01:04:38,208 --> 01:04:39,834
So at home they're puritans,

422
01:04:39,834 --> 01:04:43,171
but on vacation they let it all hang loose.

423
01:04:43,171 --> 01:04:46,007
- [Interviewer] They don't
look all that loose to me.

424
01:04:46,007 --> 01:04:47,801
The only thing they seem
to be able to show is

425
01:04:47,801 --> 01:04:50,470
that Americans have no
sense of the ridiculous.

426
01:04:54,015 --> 01:04:55,850
- [Interviewee] They do the best they can.

427
01:04:55,850 --> 01:04:58,645
Old ladies dance with
Black men for a thrill,

428
01:04:58,645 --> 01:05:01,189
and retired bank clerks
eye the native girls

429
01:05:01,189 --> 01:05:03,108
because that's all they're capable of.

430
01:05:03,108 --> 01:05:05,985
And for people married to
typewriters and adding machines,

431
01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:08,321
that's not bad.
(both laughs)

432
01:05:08,321 --> 01:05:10,865
(upbeat music)

433
01:05:37,350 --> 01:05:40,228
(dancers chanting)

434
01:07:03,561 --> 01:07:05,813
The Spanish, on the other hand, reacted

435
01:07:05,813 --> 01:07:08,983
to the counter-Reformation
and to dictatorship

436
01:07:08,983 --> 01:07:11,778
by demystifying their traditional heroes.

437
01:07:11,778 --> 01:07:14,364
(upbeat music)

438
01:09:34,629 --> 01:09:37,090
The way Zorro treated the
Governor of California

439
01:09:37,090 --> 01:09:38,675
was slightly different.

440
01:09:39,592 --> 01:09:42,428
But nowadays, this is more satisfying,

441
01:09:42,428 --> 01:09:44,013
and who wouldn't prefer it?

442
01:09:47,058 --> 01:09:49,727
A modern day duel for young and old.

443
01:09:59,570 --> 01:10:02,156
(upbeat music)

444
01:13:33,117 --> 01:13:35,202
(audience clapping)

445
01:13:35,202 --> 01:13:39,707
The duel has finished, as all
duels should, in a dead heat.

446
01:13:41,042 --> 01:13:42,585
Both of them are winners.

447
01:13:47,924 --> 01:13:49,884
I found this dress in Bombay.

448
01:13:49,884 --> 01:13:51,636
Do you like it?
- It's sexy.

449
01:13:52,637 --> 01:13:54,931
Let me zip you up.
There.

450
01:13:57,350 --> 01:14:00,061
I must say it looks much
better on you than on me.

451
01:14:00,061 --> 01:14:01,604
Maybe it's the way we contrast.

452
01:14:01,604 --> 01:14:03,064
- Thank you.
- Look.

453
01:14:03,940 --> 01:14:06,192
- Well, let's say I'm more
interested in your theory

454
01:14:06,192 --> 01:14:08,194
about demystification.

455
01:14:08,194 --> 01:14:11,489
- Demystification isn't the right word.

456
01:14:11,489 --> 01:14:13,157
The sexual symbol is pure--

457
01:14:13,157 --> 01:14:14,742
- Like Snow White.

458
01:14:14,742 --> 01:14:17,370
- And the Seven Dwarves,
only given the hypocrisy

459
01:14:17,370 --> 01:14:19,914
of the times, that symbol was well-hidden.

460
01:14:19,914 --> 01:14:21,832
Nowadays, it's just a
matter of bringing it out

461
01:14:21,832 --> 01:14:23,000
into the open.

462
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,212
It's more a question of
clarification than demystification.

463
01:14:26,212 --> 01:14:28,631
- Sexual symbolism is
present day terminology.

464
01:14:28,631 --> 01:14:30,633
- We need only to be more explicit.

465
01:14:31,717 --> 01:14:34,303
(upbeat music)

466
01:14:46,399 --> 01:14:49,443
Paris. Paris, France.
My friend Renee

467
01:14:49,443 --> 01:14:52,029
was working there, wildly successful

468
01:14:52,029 --> 01:14:54,365
with her version of "Swan Lake."

469
01:14:54,365 --> 01:14:55,449
No need to remind you

470
01:14:55,449 --> 01:14:58,077
that the swan has always
been a sexual symbol,

471
01:14:58,077 --> 01:15:00,496
but this is really
something more explicit.

472
01:15:00,496 --> 01:15:03,499
Renee leaves out nothing in
her own interpretation of

473
01:15:03,499 --> 01:15:05,167
the beauty and the beast.

474
01:15:07,294 --> 01:15:10,006
(upbeat music)

475
01:17:29,645 --> 01:17:32,648
(audience clapping)

476
01:17:41,782 --> 01:17:44,535
(exciting music)

477
01:18:58,609 --> 01:19:02,321
(audience clapping)

478
01:19:02,321 --> 01:19:05,866
Explicit. I think that's the word for it.

479
01:19:05,866 --> 01:19:08,661
And as you can see, the members
of the audience seem happy

480
01:19:08,661 --> 01:19:10,955
to find something explicit.

481
01:19:14,250 --> 01:19:16,835
(upbeat music)

482
01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:36,730
- What you mean is there's
a one-way interpretation

483
01:19:36,730 --> 01:19:37,606
for everything.

484
01:19:37,606 --> 01:19:41,443
Yes, it seems obvious
to me. Any literary work,

485
01:19:41,443 --> 01:19:44,071
no matter how innocent it seems,

486
01:19:44,071 --> 01:19:47,658
conceals profound and
complex sexual symbolism,

487
01:19:47,658 --> 01:19:49,201
even when it's not evident at first sight.

488
01:19:49,201 --> 01:19:51,745
- You mean including the
Constitution of the United States?

489
01:19:53,289 --> 01:19:55,708
- Of course, but I'm
certainly not going to comment

490
01:19:55,708 --> 01:19:57,293
on that into a tape recorder.

491
01:19:57,293 --> 01:19:59,920
(both laughing)

492
01:20:01,130 --> 01:20:03,674
(upbeat music)

493
01:20:16,437 --> 01:20:17,980
Well, I mean, anyway,

494
01:20:17,980 --> 01:20:22,651
the USA is still very
backward in this sector.

495
01:20:22,651 --> 01:20:25,612
Behind the frenzied facade of
what passes for the capital

496
01:20:25,612 --> 01:20:29,658
of vice, Las Vegas, there
lurks a profound insecurity

497
01:20:29,658 --> 01:20:32,578
handed down from Puritans and Calvinists.

498
01:20:32,578 --> 01:20:33,996
Like this party.

499
01:20:33,996 --> 01:20:37,374
It's trying to be a frenzied
orgy, a la punk chic.

500
01:20:37,374 --> 01:20:39,668
But all it is is punk shit,

501
01:20:39,668 --> 01:20:42,046
with its demented fakes that
are trying to be some kind

502
01:20:42,046 --> 01:20:44,798
of twisted transsexual Dracula,

503
01:20:44,798 --> 01:20:46,258
or historical symbols

504
01:20:49,803 --> 01:20:51,764
like La Belle Epoque.

505
01:20:51,764 --> 01:20:54,350
(upbeat music)

506
01:22:04,253 --> 01:22:07,005
(exciting music)

507
01:29:09,094 --> 01:29:11,721
- In one final phrase,
could you sum up everything

508
01:29:11,721 --> 01:29:13,181
we've been into so far?

509
01:29:13,181 --> 01:29:15,809
- Oh, yes, in the best, best way.

510
01:29:16,810 --> 01:29:19,396
(breezy music)

511
01:33:11,461 --> 01:33:15,090
Actually, the only final
comment is so very simple.

512
01:33:15,090 --> 01:33:17,842
Like everyone else, we've
had our share of provocation,

513
01:33:17,842 --> 01:33:20,261
and we've had to go along with it.

514
01:33:20,261 --> 01:33:22,472
I really don't think there's
anything else to say.

515
01:33:22,472 --> 01:33:23,473
- [Interviewer] No?

516
01:33:25,558 --> 01:33:27,685
- Unless you want me to state the obvious,

517
01:33:28,561 --> 01:33:30,855
but some people certainly won't approve.

518
01:33:30,855 --> 01:33:32,065
But that can't bother us.

519
01:33:32,065 --> 01:33:33,942
- You mean we're victims of our own fate.

520
01:33:33,942 --> 01:33:35,944
- The hypocrites will say that and worse,

521
01:33:35,944 --> 01:33:37,612
but I'll stick to the opinion that any way

522
01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:40,490
of making love is beautiful and true.

523
01:33:40,490 --> 01:33:43,743
(upbeat music)

524
01:34:00,093 --> 01:34:02,345
THE FILMING WITH
AJITA WILSON WAS SHOT

525
01:34:02,345 --> 01:34:04,722
AT THE HOLIDAY INN HOTEL
OF FIUMICINO ROME