• RattlerSix@lemmy.world
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    Anybody ever read the Godfather book? It’s… kinda weird. Every time a new character is introduced, it’s goes into their sexual history. Like, do we really need to know Rocko is an attentive lover with a string of girlfriends that he has no trouble keeping satisfied before he goes and kills some dude?

    And then there’s a part of the book that is about… How do I put this…

    a woman getting a pussy tightening surgery.

    It’s the bridesmaid that Sonny fucks in the closet at his sister’s wedding. She sought out Sonny, as did all the other women “with big mouths and wide hips” because he had a legendarily big cock and it was her only hope to get any pleasure, on account of her gigantic pussy and all.

    After he dies, she tried to commit suicide. Not because she cared for him, she just figures she’ll always be alone because no one else in the world will have a cock that will be adequate to work with her ginormous pussy.

    But much later in the book, she’s living at the family casino in Nevada, and her doctor boyfriend finally talks her into having sex and discovers her pussy is huge and convinces her that he knows a great plastic surgeon that can fix it. It walks through the consultation and surgery and everything. Not in explicit detail, but, like, it’s so weird.

    And there’s weird comments like (not a quote) “Don’t worry, doll. I do great work. I’ll fix you up so nice he’ll be calling me every day to thank me.” Shit like that.

    And it worked. After she has the surgery and they have sex, her doctor boyfriend immediately proposes to her.

    So, anyway, yeah… I don’t know why they left the great pussy tightening subplot out of the movies.

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      do we really need to know Rocko is an attentive lover with a string of girlfriends that he has no trouble keeping satisfied

      How else are we supposed to relate to that character?

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      Please, dont ever read Stephen kings IT.

      Its…deeply fucked up. It includes a child group sex act that happens right before they confront IT directly, which empowers them to defeat it.

      The context is more complicated than the above and is partly about a girl addressing being sexually abused by her father and partly about leaving adolesence for adulthood, but it is…a lot.

      Like most his books back then, the byline should have said “Cocaine, with Stephen king.”

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          They fight It, end up in the sewer, realize if they lose their innocence It will lose interest in them, run the train, flashforward.

          At least that’s what I remember from when I read the book without knowledge of that scene.

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        That reminds me there was one of his books I read for an elementary school book report just because I had heard he was a famous author and it had something about an underage girl being raped and detailing what injuries it caused or something, it’s been a long fucking time so specifics may be off. I feel like there may have been some significance in a wheat field… I do remember also recalling it again in high school when we were made to read oryx and crake, and the other students were grossed out about the narrating character’s recollections of watching csam material together withh crake, of a girl that may or may not have been oryx in the past.

        I was thinking back then something like Atwood couldn’t hurt me after Stephen king scarred me but pigoons, chicky knobs, and most of all the narrators other obsession of Alex the parrot’s final video somehow really got to me and still bother me to this day.

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      So, anyway, yeah… I don’t know why they left the great pussy tightening subplot out of the movies.

      well you know, I’m beginning to think this Coppola fellow simply didn’t know true art when he saw it, after reading all that. That could’ve been a wonderfully surreal addition to spice up the trilogy.

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          This time focusing exclusively on this character and her pussy struggles. Everything else should be mentioned in the background in passing. It should be four and a half hours, third of which is black and white for no reason.

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      From Here to Eternity is like that. The book is truly a great piece of literature, but the movie (made in the 1950s) excises pretty much everything worthwhile in the book. Just as one example, the book has a character who can’t get any contact with women in pre-war Hawaii so he starts getting blowjobs from gay men in parks. Eventually he builds up so much guilt from this that he shoots himself in the head in the barracks. I can’t remember whether the character was even in the movie but obviously no hint of those activities show up. There’s also the main character taking up with a prostitute who is magically not a prostitute at all in the movie.

      The book has so much stuff like this in it that I can’t understand why they even tried to make a movie out of it in 1953.

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      Yeah it’s been a long time since I read it but I remember the giant pussy storyline. Seems weird now that you point it out.