The Duke Watches "Orgazmo"
Published June 16, 2004
A few years back, an animated comedy appeared on telly that got everyone all amazed by its adult-nature and also the bizarre characters and quirky humour. Everyone loved it, is what.
It was called Duckman, and it was about a private detective who was funny because he was a duck.
Ducks don't smoke cigarettes, you found yourself saying. That's just comedy motherfucking gold, right there, how they have a duck dressed up in human clothes. Holy shit, that is some wickedly satirical nonsense.
Anyway, shortly afterwards, spurred on by both the ground-breaking capers of Duckman and also Dr Katz and what not, along with the fact that The Simpsons made a shit-load of the green for everybody involved, a couple fellas got the green-light to go ahead and make a cartoon called South Park, about four foul-mouthed youngsters who get anal probes, meet Charles Manson, watch boxing matches between Jesus and Satan, other stuff.
These two comedic motherfuckers by the name of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they ended up getting all sorts of offers flung at them, and managed to convince the world that producing live-action filmic affairs to be written and directed by them, was an idea worth a thought or two.
They had already done a film back in the day, the day being 1996, and the film being Cannibal - The Musical, distributed by the good folks at Troma.
It proved to be rather amusing in a low-budget, controversial kind of way. But also, there's a depth to it all that you might just miss, in behind all the singing about eating livers and so on.
Anyway, what happened is in 1997 these fools created Orgazmo, about a Mormon lad who ends up being the star of a hugely successful porn film, ie, a film about a man has sex with a woman, a woman has sex with a woman, a woman has sex with a fist, a man has sex with a Doberman and so on.
Obviously, in these successful porn films, a man doesn't have sex with a man, since that would put it in the less lucrative Gay Adult section, although it's fine to have inter-gender sexing if it's a woman, or maybe two civil servants.
The Duke (Aaron McMullan to his parents and the clergy) is a Northern Irish writer, performer and insomniac currently residing in London. He is the creator of Mondo Irlando, wherein his scribblings and hollerings can be found. He is currently working towards the completion of his first novel, and his debut "punk / country / folk / whatever" album has recently been released by Ex Libris Records . You can also pop by His MySpace Page and maybe have a coffee and a biscuit.
- The Duke Watches "Orgazmo"
- Published: June 16, 2004
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the back-alleys and rusted dumpsters of popular culture have rarely had a more charismatic and empathetic explicator - thanks Duke, you make it all seem almost noble.
Oh, by the way, I'm not sure understanding is what Michael Jackson needs - he may have received altogether too much understanding over the last 20 years or so. A person with less cash, power, and understanding over that time might have had to reconcile his internal world with the external one filled with actual real living people
Thanks fellas.
RJ, i just hope Roger Ebert sees fit to use that expression in his future reviewing malarky.
Jim, spot-on about the Kung Fu, although i haven't yet saw BASEketball, so i'll have to reserve judgement, by which i mean, wait till i do, in fact, see the film what goes by the name of BASEketball.
Eric, thanks, man! Nice words are always appreciated. As for Michael, i realise that right there is a pretty contentious topic, but i guess i just mean that for a show such as south park, it would have been easy to do what everyone else was doing, ie, go for cheap laughs and nothing else. It certainly had plenty of cheap laughs, but also looked on the matter sympathetically. Whilst it didn't excuse jackson, it saw that there was probably a mental illness at work there that caused him to act in what might seem like a malicious nature, but was probably genuinely innocent. He needs help, is what it seemed to say, not to be vilified.
Thanks as ever, folks.
I understand - he needs help AND needs to be vilified for not getting it. Just because someone is nuts doesn't mean they aren't dangerous.
I've seen this movie discussed before but never braved it as a rental.
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What you missed was that "Orgazmo" is primarily a kung-fu movie in structure and plot points. The stunt cocks and double-vaginal - double-anal action are just the set dressing.
And in addition to a kick ass soundtrack, it has one of the best superhero rallying cries after Ben ("It's Clobberin' Time!") Grimm :
"Go In The Front, Come Out The Back and Fuck Their Shit Up!"
Plus it Jesus Approved (tm), He gave it the thumbs up, right there near the end.
I think "Orgazmo" is a better movie than their tribute to Zucker-Abrams-Zucker "Baseketball".