My Fair Lady, the Ultimate Power Exchange Dynamics
Since the release of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” the Internet got filled with articles elaborating on earlier non-Vanilla, BDSM inspired films. The basic template is to quote “The Secretary” (2002) but some manage to go as far as 9 1/2 weeks (1986.)
Bunch of amateurs, he he he. The one profoundly compelling Power Exchange movie dates back to 1964, and is sugar coated under the name of “My Fair Lady” with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto was full yesterday, not with the vibrant kink community of San Fancisco though. Mere mortals of all ages showed up; elders brought their youth along. I too attended with a seven and a seventy year old and enjoyed both, the film that I know by heart and the audience expressive reaction to it.
The power of transformation that happens when masculine and feminine in their pure form collide has universal appeal.
Appearing undone at the age of 50 in a slapstick comedy, Nina Doroshina made millions of Soviet women laugh and cry as they recognized themselves in the heroine, who knew how to work hard, but felt awkward to kiss her husband.
Ever wondered what Debbie Reynolds, the leading actress of the musical “Singing in the Rain” (1952) could look like if she had a bit rougher life, was raised in an image-unconscious environment and had no costume designers to turn her into an eye candy for our insatiable, objectifying retina? The Soviet actress, Nina Doroshina (1934 – […]
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