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Behind the Green Door was a 1972 theatrically-released feature-length pornographic film, which is widely considered to be a "classic".[1][2][3][4] It was the first hardcore pornographic film widely released in the United States. It was the first feature-length film directed by the Mitchell brothers and starred Marilyn Chambers.[5] It was adapted from an anonymous short story of the same title, which was circulated by means of numerous carbon copies. The story's title makes reference to the 1956 hit song "The Green Door." The film was given an X-rating by the MPAA.[6]
[edit] PlotChambers plays the role of Gloria.[7] The story begins in a cafe, where a cook asks two truck drivers to tell the story of the green door.[7] Chambers is then shown being kidnapped and taken to a sex theater, where she is placed on a stage and forced to perform various sexual acts with multiple partners in front of a masked audience.[2] The Mitchell brothers appear in the film as her kidnappers. First she is fondled by several women wearing robes.[2] Her first heterosexual scene in the film is with the boxer Johnny Keyes, accompanied by a jazz soundtrack.[7][8] This possibly makes BTGD the first U.S. feature-length hardcore film to include an interracial sex scene.[2] Following this Chambers has sex with several other men.[9] The watching audience become aroused and begin having sex with each other.[10] In a psychedelic key sequence, an ejaculation on Chambers' face is shown with semen flying through the air for seven minutes. The film features several multicolored, optically printed, slow-motion close-ups of money shots.[7] Next the truck driver-narrator runs onto the stage and carries Chambers off through the green door.[7] The film ends with him and Chambers making love alone.[7] [edit] ImpactAlong with Deep Throat, released later in the same year, the movie launched the "porno chic" boom[6] and started what is now referred to as the "Golden Age of Porn."[1] Along with Deep Throat it was the first hardcore porn film to reach a mass mixed-sex audience.[7] Prior to BTGD most of the Mitchell Brothers 200 or so films had only been shown in their O'Farrell Theater.[11] Made with a budget of $60,000, it achieved a nationwide theatrical release which earned over $1 million.[1][6] The movie ultimately grossed over $25 million[12] including its video release, which was controlled exclusively by the Mitchells out of their headquarters in the O'Farrell Theatre, San Francisco). It was one of the biggest box office successes of the 1970s, alongside Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones,[6] and was even screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[5] After its release criminals used extortion in an attempt to obtain the rights to the film.[13] [edit] Marilyn ChambersChambers was relatively unknown at the time, however the film made her a star.[14][13] Immediately prior to the movie's release she was the 'ivory soap girl',[14] having modeled for the Ivory Snow soap and detergent packaging holding a baby.[5][14][13][15] The brand was sold under the slogan "99 and 44/100's % pure."[5][7] The Mitchell brothers saw a publicity opportunity, and distributed press releases describing Chambers with the same slogan.[5] After the release of the movie the advertising industry was scandalized,[7] and Procter & Gamble recalled all Ivory Snow products and advertising materials featuring her, unintentionally adding to the movie's hype. The fact that Chambers image was so well known from Ivory Snow boosted the film's ticket sales, and lead to several jokes on television talk shows.[15] Critics have since debated whether she was really having orgasms in her scenes or just acting.[14] [edit] Critical receptionUpon its release the film received positive reviews in mainstream media.[13] According to Peter Michelson there is, "a relatively small corpus of pornographic films - e.g., Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and Behind the Green Door - that have a minimal but still sufficient artistic interest to distinguish themselves from the rest of the genre",[16] and the film is "more artful than most smut films".[17] It was the second film to be inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, following Deep Throat.[18] [edit] SequelIn 1986, the Mitchells made a sequel to this film, Behind the Green Door: the Sequel, directed by cabaret singer Sharon McNight. The movie featured literally no famous performers and starred a plump young woman who billed herself as Missy (she was Artie Mitchell's girlfriend at the time and reportedly demanded to be given the role). It was the first safe-sex themed porn film, produced as a response the 1980s AIDS outbreak in San Francisco.[5] in which all the performers used condoms, birth control, and other protective paraphernalia,[19] was a critical and commercial disaster and cost the Mitchells hundreds of thousands of dollars.[20][21] The O'Farrell Theatre contains a "Green Door Room" which is named for the two movies and was the principal set of the sequel. [edit] In popular culture
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