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Lovelace, Linda - Loose Lips: Her Last Interview
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Before Linda Lovelace's untimely death in 2002, the sex superstar sat for a no-hold's barred interview with pop-culture historian Legs McNeil. Fortunately McNeil hired a film crew to record the historic event as Linda recounted the making of DEEP THROAT. Includes additional comments by Marilyn Chambers, Chuck Traynor, FBI Agent Bill Kelly, Harry Reems, Jane Hamilton and Eric Edwards.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Media Format : Color, NTSC, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 1 hour
- Release date : December 17, 2013
- Actors : Lovelace, Linda
- Studio : Mvd Visual
- ASIN : B00ERH14U2
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #296,484 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #13,543 in Documentary (Movies & TV)
- #18,153 in Special Interests (Movies & TV)
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The first thing you should know is that it is not, as the title indicates, an interview with Linda Lovelace. Rather, Lovelace is just one of several talking heads featured in a poorly made documentary about her career. The others? Two other adult film actresses, one investigator and some rabid, frankly unsettling porn aficianados. Zero experts on the sensitive topics the documentary discusses are consulted, and only extremely peripheral witnesses appear.
The first hour or so is essentially a chronological telling of Lovelace's rise to stardom, from mafia-backed porn to stardom to her breakup with Chuck Traynor and subsequent allegations of having been forced to make her most famous film. It's interesting and contains some material that will be of interest to many, I'm sure. Still, you want one of two things: just Linda’s story, or Linda’s story illuminated by psychologists, historians and other firsthand witnesses. You get neither.
The film then takes a jarring, gross and frankly despicable turn. The remaining runtime is broken into two sections: the first hypothesizing that Lovelace is a liar, the second offering the "more nuanced" take that maybe she's just crazy, because she once gave a baby up for adoption. No psychologists or experts of any kind are consulted about this “diagnosis.”
Before I go further, I should be clear: I am not here to argue that Lovelace’s story is unimpeachable. Nor do I believe it should be used to indict the entire porn industry. Do I personally believe the story she put forward in this interview and her book, Ordeal? No, not exactly. There are a thousand reasons to doubt that Traynor ever held a gun to her on set. In fact, it is somewhat preposterous to imagine he did. So, she almost certainly exaggerated the degree of abuse. But, there is also ample evidence that serious abuse did occur, from her bruises, to an on-set witness, to her passing a polygraph, to the perpetrator's own statements about his willingness to hit his partners. So, it also seems reasonable enough to view Lovelace as someone who felt she had no other choice. Whether that feeling came at the time or simply in retrospect, I am not in a position to say. And, I am fully aware that my opinion is pretty meaningless, beyond establishing that this review is not motivated by a belief that it is wrong to question her allegations at all. I’m not an expert—but neither is anyone consulted in this film.
Rather than consult people who would actually know what they’re talking about, this film consults a series of people who re-tell her story through the lens of rationalization. As a result, the evidence they choose to focus on, and the way they choose to present it, comes across as gross AF.
Her Deep Throat bruises are shown on screen, but summarily dismissed as evidence of coercion.
The witness who said he heard her being beaten on-set doesn't just go unmentioned--his existence is outright denied in this film.
Her polygraph is mentioned, but offered essentially as evidence that she is crazy enough to believe the story.
Traynor's professed willingness to abuse his partners is mentioned, late into the "it isn't true" argument, but is essentially dismissed as a, "so what?" Well, I don’t know about you, but when one partner says, “He beat me,” and the other partner says, “Yeah, I like to beat women,” I am inclined to believe them both.
Instead, the filmmakers spend a whole lot of time explaining that she made Deep Throat II post-Traynor, and therefore without being forced. It's the oldest rape apology in the book: she was okay with doing it other times, with other people, in other situations, so she must have consented to it that time, too. Foul. Beyond. Belief. It's also a dishonest representation of that film, which was softcore.
Oddly enough, the film still uses the fact that she didn't make hardcore films after Traynor as evidence that she was not forced to make them with him. The rather convoluted explanation is that she was angry that she couldn't make it without doing hardcore, so she made up a story about having been forced to do hardcore. Instead of just... doing more hardcore, which she allegedly loved to do?
That persistent lack of internal logic plagues the whole project. If someone with a more critical eye had taken part in its creation, it probably would have been a much better film.
It even uses films she made with Traynor as evidence she is lying, as well. One particular film featured an incredibly degrading, shocking act. That he was not physically on set is offered as evidence that she was super cool with being in porn. That's... simplistic. But the point isn't to make an argument, anyway; it is to discredit her as someone who did that disgusting thing, with or without his command.
It also spends quite a bit of time arguing that the feminist movement used her, by broadcasting her story without compensating her financially. (Except for speaking engagements.) In other words, that they did not pay her for the story is supposed to cast doubt on its credibility? That makes less than zero sense. Imagine what the film would have said if they HAD paid her.
But, then, the point isn’t to make a logical argument. It’s to make feminists look unsympathetic. Andrea Dworkin's dumb quotes are brought up, almost always in conjunction with images of Gloria Steinem. Dworkin has little to nothing to do with Lovelace's story. Steinem does, but she... didn't say those things, and is generally considered one of the great minds of our time. Was she naive to take Lovelace's story at face value? Perhaps. But, the argument seems to be, "feminism is bad, therefore she was not abused and raped that much." Not a good look.
The film's overall pro-porn stance--and I say this as someone with nothing against the adult film industry--really leads it to some weird, weird places, too. For example, there are two alarming asides about how child pornography was never really a big problem. Like, out of NOWHERE. Nowhere.
In the end, it all reeks of rationalization by guys who just want to enjoy their porn without having to accept that sometimes the products they love were the result of abuse. A shame, really, as they had a lot of good material to work with. Taking the same footage, someone could have made a fascinating and honest (if likely inconclusive) film. While I have a hard time believing the filmmakers intended to produce something so abhorrent, this is where we are.
Linda Lovelace’s life was marked by two incidents: “Deep Throat” and the publishing of her memoir “Ordeal,” in 1980. “Deep Throat” not only is the most famous adult film in US history, as I mentioned before, but is also responsible for creating the so-called Golden Age of Pornography in the US, which lasted from the launching of the film in 1972, to somewhere in the 80s. “Linda Lovelace’s Loose Lips’” main star is writer Legs McNeil, who uses parts of Linda Lovelace’s alleged last interview, segments featuring clips of some of her pictures, interviews with personnel related to the case, and varied archival footage, to present his case. McNeil, who co-directed the film, divides it into three parts or versions. In the first part, he proceeds to examine the official version of known facts about Linda’s life, mostly about her early years, her dominating mother, how she met future husband and manager Chuck Traynor, her early short films (Linda likes ‘em Lewd – 1971, The Foot – 1971, Piss Orgy – 1971), the making of “Deep Throat,” how Traynor verbally and physically abused her, how Traynor stole her money, the success of her book “Ordeal,” how the book initiated debate about pornography nationwide, her other romances, and more. In between, there is also a brief history of pornography in the US. On the other hand, in the second version, McNeil turns the tide, and provides evidence against Lovelace, indicating the she was a manipulator and a liar, and how she needed attention from the people. It is here that another short, “Dog F_ _ _ _r” (the name says it all), gets mentioned, stressing that Lovelace did enjoy pornography – after all, she also did “Deep Throat II.” The last version is basically an analysis of the two previous versions. At any rate, the viewer will be the judge. The interviews are helpful, particularly those with porn stars Marilyn Chambers, Harry Reems and Sharon Mitchell, as well as Chuck Traynor, FBI agent Bill Kelly, writers Al Goldstein and Eric Danville, and, of course, Miss Lovelace herself.
I recently had the opportunity to watch the film “Lovelace,” starring Amanda Seyfried, in which Lovelace is portrayed as the victim, as in the first version of “Linda Lovelace’s Loose Lips,” and I have to say that it can be hard to reach a verdict about who is telling the truth. This documentary does a great job in exposing both sides, and it should be required viewing by anybody that remembers those times, as the truth slowly surfaces throughout the years. (USA, 2013, color, 90 min)
Reviewed on February 9, 2014 by Eric Gonzalez for MVD Visual.


