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December 07, 2007
Season's Greetings: the NSFW ending to Pasolini's Canterbury Tales
[As the linked item predicts, the clip was yanked by YouTube within hours; Pasolini's smile from the end of the passage is just about the only image that isn't gonzo.] New York magazine's Vulture blog tempts the fates by posting a clip of the epically scatological ending to Pasolini's Canterbury Tales (1972) as part of their summa of "The 10 Most Anti-Christian Movies Of All Time." Here's their precis: "Although he made what many still consider to be the quintessential Jesus movie (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964), Italian Marxist homosexual poet Pier Paolo Pasolini was no fan of religious dogma, and his sex-drenched, free-form adaptation of Chaucer's poem constantly thumbs its nose at the falsely pious. But Pasolini saves the big one for the end: The film ends with a shocking and hilarious vision of Hell in which Satan cracks open his butt cheeks and shits out streams of screaming friars. In close-up. Repeatedly. Sadly, we were unable to find this clip on YouTube, but then we realized we could put it up ourselves. Enjoy, because it won't last long. Uh, NSFW, unless you work in Hell."
Posted by Ray Pride at December 7, 2007 11:42 AM
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Scatacological? Maybe it's a good thing I missed it.
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at December 10, 2007 07:34 PM
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