The First Hardcore Scene - BE Part 3
About 16 minutes into the film, Karen Schubert provides the first hardcore scene of the movie--or at least her body double does. Prior to that, Schubert also provides the first nudity in the film, in a scene where she's getting dressed for a dinner party. Because of her hard, facially blockish looks, I don't find Schubert sexy, but her duo introductions are appropriate, as they tantalize us to anticipate something similar coming from Gemser in her role as Emanuelle.
The hardcore inserts are done well, integrated as they are with similar looking body doubles (if they were body doubles!) and attire and background. The sex scene, which is between the journalist Ann Danieli (Schubert) and a black gas station attendent, is intershot with a scene of another black gas station attendent pumping gas into Ann Danieli's car, while Emanuelle waits inside. I think we get the idea!
File the Schubert sex scene under "Jungle Fever," a fetish that the movie plays upon continually. In the 1970s, cinematic sexual couplings between a white woman and a black man were relatively rare and carried a red-faced element of taboo. Even interracial passionate kissing contained something illegal and forbidden to the viewer. The natural question to ask is if much has changed since then.
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