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The Brown Bunny
2003 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Vincent Gallo
Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.
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Roger Ebert was a national treasure. The saga of his review of director Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" [1] always makes me laugh:
> American critic Roger Ebert has hit back at Vincent Gallo in the latest round of a public spat over whether the actor-director did or did not apologise for his derided Cannes contender The Brown Bunny. Earlier this week Gallo denied having apologised and claimed the critic was "a fat pig" for saying that he had. He added: "The only thing I'm sorry for is putting a curse of Roger Ebert's colon."
> Yesterday, in his column for the Chicago Sun Times, Ebert stuck to his guns - quoting the editor of trade magazine Screen International, who says that they have Gallo's apology on tape. On the question of his cursed colon, Ebert said: "I am not too worried. I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny."
> The critic rounded off his article (as it were) by casually conceding that he is overweight. "It is true that I am fat," Ebert wrote. "But one day I shall be thin, and he will still be the director of The Brown Bunny."
Later on, Gallo went back to the editing room and cut a quarter of the film. Ebert re-watched it and actually ended up giving it a thumbs' up.
1. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jun/05/news2
One of the more infamous examples is Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny". Roger Ebert panned it after its initial screening at Cannes, Gallo responded by wishing Ebert's colon cancer would relapse, and Ebert retorted by saying that his recent colonoscopy (in which Ebert was allowed to watch the footage of the medical camera as it progressed through his rectum) was more entertaining than "The Brown Bunny".
Gallo eventually went back into the editing room, and emerged with a new version of the movie. Ebert watched this new version, and afterwards was quoted as saying "It is said that editing is the soul of the cinema; in the case of "The Brown Bunny," it is its salvation."
Source- https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-brown-bunny-2004
With porn you get to choose/approve your partner based on attractiveness and compatibility. Whereas prostitution involves total strangers... and they are not really in a position where they get to say "no" (even though "technically" they can).
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Is Chloe Sevingy a prostitute because she had REAL sex in the movie, The Brown Bunny? I'd say no.
I don't think that would do the trick: the porn industry would adapt and move from pure porn to movies with a actual plot and characters that would happen to have long scenes of unstimulated sex. I mean, is 9 Songs[1] porn? What about the Brown Bunny? You'd probably need a lawsuit to decide for each case.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_Songs