{"id":662,"date":"2006-05-09T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2006-05-09T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:34:00","slug":"waiting-for-euro-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Euro-porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Euro-porn” is my new cinematic category, although really, it’s just “Gothic” in the 18th-century sense<\/a> dressed up.<\/p>\n

The Da Vinci Code<\/em><\/a> is Euro-porn, of course. It’s got ancient buildings like you won’t find in strip-mall America, secret Catholic societies, and layers of corruption that Karl Rove could only dream of.<\/p>\n

Well, there is some of all that in New Mexico, but not so elegantly done.<\/p>\n

While you are waiting, watch Brotherhood of the Wolf<\/em><\/a> for a Gothic\/Gothique<\/em> mélange of secret Catholic societies, martial arts, shamanism, a whiff of incest, poison and daggers, lush scenery (Haute Pyrénées), heaving bosoms, galloping horses, Mohawks and French revolutionaries, sailing ships, swordplay, vengeance, corrupt aristocrats, architecture, and wolves. Lots of wolves. And it’s all in French.<\/p>\n

And did I mention the sort of Hong Kong-style martial arts combat where the assassin attacking the hero from behind screams, so that the hero will hear him, whirl around, and dispatch him?<\/p>\n

You can’t get much more Euro-pornographic than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Euro-porn” is my new cinematic category, although really, it’s just “Gothic” in the 18th-century sense dressed up. The Da Vinci Code is Euro-porn, of course. It’s got ancient buildings like you won’t find in strip-mall America, secret Catholic societies, and layers of corruption that Karl Rove could only dream of. 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