Saturday, June 18, 2022

LAST TANGLE IN PARIS

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973)
dir: Bernardo Bertolucci

Yeah, this trailer is age restricted because the movie was rated X. Sorry, kids.

LAST TANGLE IN PARIS
Crazy #3, March 1974
w: Marv Wolfman & Steve Skeates
a: Enrique Ventura
Movie about a French woman named Jeanne (Maria Schneider), who looks at an apartment and finds an American twice her age named Paul (Marlon Brando) is also checking it out. They decide to both take it to carry on an anonymous love affair.
Paul woos her using what we'd now call “negging”.
Jeanne's boyfriend Thomas (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is a filmmaker making a biography about their life, has no idea about Paul or their trysts, and proposes marriage to her. She goes back to the apartment and finds it empty, then Paul surprises her. She tries to call the affair off, but he insists in taking her out dancing. Afterwards, she tries to get away from him end ends up shooting him in self-defense.
They don't go into Paul's grieving over his ex-wife's suicide, which is sort of irrelevant to the steamy erotica used to sell the film.

from Clean Ads for Dirty Pictures by Larry Siegel and Jack Rickard in MAD #166 (the infamous middle finger cover issue), April 1974
UPDATE:

LAST TANGO IN PARIS
cover for Pancada, Brazilian version of Cracked

They called their parody (don't know if there was one inside) Last Chicken in Paris.

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