Thursday, May 13, 2004
Consensual Yorghos
To know Yorghos is to know divinity.
For some horrible reason -- possibly because The O.C. is on hiatus -- about five of us watched this utter piece of garbage known as Summer Lovers last night. It's a film forgotten by time and rightly so. You'll see in this link that the film stars Daryl Hannah (from now on known as "D-Han") and one Peter Gallagher, known amongst today's youth as "He Surfs" from The O.C. Anyway, a boss of my roommate owns this crap and suggested that we watch it for a laugh. There were definitely laughs. The premise of the film is that this young American couple visits the Greek islands (Santorini, from the look of it) for 8 weeks, bump into this French girl, and they all live happily ever after. If you think I'm doing that summation injustice, you're dead wrong. And my is there a lot of nudity in this movie, especially for 1982. But alas, no sex scenes, cheesy or otherwise. Not to give the wrong impression, I don't watch movies exclusively for nudity. But you have to understand that the first ten minutes of "Summer Lovers" is the rubbingest movie ever. I mean that literally. It's all naked couples on the beach rubbing suntan lotion on each other. And after that, no sex. Doesn't add up.
Anyway, the movie is totally insipid. It's only saving grace, and my tongue is buried deep in my cheek when I say this, is an inconsequential side character named Yorghos. Yorghos is a really creepy Greek guy with and afro reminiscent of some really gay late 70s rocker. And he's consensual. Early on, he tries to seduce D-Han by bringing her up to his place and turning on some freak music. Doesn't rape her though, which we were all expecting. No. Actually, he's rather consensual. Offers her qualudes, some wine. He's Consensual Yorghos! Judging by his filmography, he's also a man of discerning taste. That scene lasts about three minutes, is fairly early in this looooooong 90 minute shit-fest, and the last we see of Consensual Yorghos... UNTIL! He pops up for thirty seconds towards the end of the film to pick up on this 70 year-old corpse of a woman who plays the friend of D-Han's mother. Truly magnificent. And by "magnificent" I mean "Yorghos."
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For some horrible reason -- possibly because The O.C. is on hiatus -- about five of us watched this utter piece of garbage known as Summer Lovers last night. It's a film forgotten by time and rightly so. You'll see in this link that the film stars Daryl Hannah (from now on known as "D-Han") and one Peter Gallagher, known amongst today's youth as "He Surfs" from The O.C. Anyway, a boss of my roommate owns this crap and suggested that we watch it for a laugh. There were definitely laughs. The premise of the film is that this young American couple visits the Greek islands (Santorini, from the look of it) for 8 weeks, bump into this French girl, and they all live happily ever after. If you think I'm doing that summation injustice, you're dead wrong. And my is there a lot of nudity in this movie, especially for 1982. But alas, no sex scenes, cheesy or otherwise. Not to give the wrong impression, I don't watch movies exclusively for nudity. But you have to understand that the first ten minutes of "Summer Lovers" is the rubbingest movie ever. I mean that literally. It's all naked couples on the beach rubbing suntan lotion on each other. And after that, no sex. Doesn't add up.
Anyway, the movie is totally insipid. It's only saving grace, and my tongue is buried deep in my cheek when I say this, is an inconsequential side character named Yorghos. Yorghos is a really creepy Greek guy with and afro reminiscent of some really gay late 70s rocker. And he's consensual. Early on, he tries to seduce D-Han by bringing her up to his place and turning on some freak music. Doesn't rape her though, which we were all expecting. No. Actually, he's rather consensual. Offers her qualudes, some wine. He's Consensual Yorghos! Judging by his filmography, he's also a man of discerning taste. That scene lasts about three minutes, is fairly early in this looooooong 90 minute shit-fest, and the last we see of Consensual Yorghos... UNTIL! He pops up for thirty seconds towards the end of the film to pick up on this 70 year-old corpse of a woman who plays the friend of D-Han's mother. Truly magnificent. And by "magnificent" I mean "Yorghos."
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