"The Book of Sex"
Dr. David Ruben, the author of the best-selling sex knowledge book "Sexual Questions You Want to Know But Don’t Dare to Ask" written in the form of a question and answer (the book set a global sales record of 100 million copies), is participating in the "Tonight Show" "At the time, Woody Allen happened to watch this episode in front of the TV. At that time, he thought: Would it be fun to take a series of pictures of sexual intercourse based on this book? Woody Allen asked United American (Woody and United American have three contracts), and they told Woody that Elliott Gould had bought the copyright, but had not started shooting, so Woody Allen contacted him to buy the copyright, and then he owned the movie.
Woody Allen thinks it is very interesting to make it into a movie consisting of multiple short films. This is just for fun. "The Book of Sex" is finally composed of 7 small comedy clips in the form of 7 questions and answers. The seven questions are: "Does aphrodisiacs really work?", "What is bestiality?", "Why do some women have difficulty achieving orgasm", "Are all transvestites homosexual?", "What is sexual addiction?" ", "Are the findings of the sex research doctors and clinicians accurate?" "What happened during ejaculation?" Woody Allen did not want him to take the protagonists of several short films alone. He only wanted to play some of them. . So he hired Gene Wild to play the second short film "What is Bestiality?", Gene played a psychiatrist for the bestiality patient in the short film, but he fell in love with the patient's ewe. Gene dedicated his natural and superb acting skills in the movie, even in this sex comedy movie, his performance is outstanding. All this is also attributed to Woody's complete trust in him and never interfered with his performance.
In this third film directed by Woody Allen, Woody tried more fresh film elements .
In the first short film "Does Aphrodisiac Really Work?" Woody Allen played a trick he hadn't played in his movie before: breaking the fourth wall . After the fall, the clown played by Woody directly talks to the audience on the camera and breaks the fourth wall to directly interact with the audience. And in the sixth story "Are the findings of the sex research doctor and clinician accurate?", Woody tried science fiction for the first time : a huge "murder breast" escaped from the institute! The prop set specially made a 15-foot-tall cloth breast for this film! Woody Allen calmly said to his girlfriend in the film: "Don't worry, dealing with tits is my strength!" Then he took out the cross and conquered the tits with a huge bra. And in the seventh story, which is also the most exciting "What Happened During Ejaculation?" sci-fi story, Woody Allen turned the man’s brain into a NASA control center during a date. Research institute. A bunch of staff in the brain are nervously controlling Woody's organs to complete mating, and Woody Allen in the body is playing a sperm in the "sperm squad", he said nervously: "What if he is masturbating? ", "Will it be shot to the ceiling?" It is not difficult to see that the creativity of the 2015 Disney animated film "Brain Agents" is almost exactly the same as this short film. The brain is the console, and the story background setting of a group of people controlling the body is almost the same.
"The Book of Sex" achieved a huge success of $18 million at the box office that year. This achievement is second only to the 1972 comedy "Tracing of Love" starring Barbra Streisand. We must know that in the agreement signed between Woody and United States, Woody's total budget for making 3 films is only 2 million US dollars. It seems that Woody Allen is addicted to playing sci-fi themes in "The Book of Sex", and he will completely spoof scientific nonsensical comedies in the next self-directed and self-acted movie "Fools in Science City".
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