6/29/2023 0 Comments Hollywood babylon ii![]() It included songs by Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Ray Charles, Bobby Vinton, and Little Peggy March.įireworks and Scorpio Rising are part of Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle, along with seven other short films. With its extensive use of pop music, Scorpio Rising presaged the rise of music videos. Because it featured frontal nudity, Anger was charged with indecency, but he was cleared by the California Supreme Court. Anger said the movie was a documentary using real bikers. It “alternately treated the motorcyclists as sex symbols, neo-Nazis and would-be messiahs, intercutting footage from a Christian educational film about Jesus,” according to the Post. ![]() His most famous film, 1963’s Scorpio Rising, follows the adventures of a group of leather-jacketed motorcyclists as they ride and party. ![]() ![]() Fireworks “was a daring exploration of gay desire,” The Washington Post notes, and film scholar Ryan Powell has called it “arguably the highest profile homoerotic film of the postwar years.” A theater operator who showed the movie was convicted of violating obscenity laws, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. ![]()
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