Month: November 2018 (Page 1 of 7)

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Fightcunt, 23
Seeking a brutal Dom boxer to force intoxicate me then beat the shit out of me in a blood fight. Grew up with beatings and discovered my destiny which I still must fully realize. Will take head shots. Can take strangulation fucking.

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place_provider – Nov 21, 2018
I can provide place for beating Fightcunt. Place is just 2 mins walking distance away from train station. Room rent is just 400 per hour. If anyone want to beat him in my room then please call me.

 

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maybenevergiveup, 19
hi,i am completely lost into a new world.
For my past life experience,when i was 12,i already have a strong interest for man’s cock and in teenage,i sometimes curius in public bathroom and want something special happen,but no luck.with the age growing,i find myself more and more into twisted situation in sex,even something very dark,maybe there was already a sign when i was a kid.
So i feel i am lost and don’t know what is my really desire ,i feel desire for something but shame to admit it.i come here to explore myself more,i am 19 now and it is not too late to know who i really am for myself.
Thank you for reading this,good day.

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maybenevergiveup (Owner) – Nov 13, 2018
fuck you ass hole sucker!

leodevil1983 – Nov 12, 2018
VANILLA BITCH, MASTURBATOR, BORING AS F*CK

 

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DETECTIVE, 18
TRY ME….DONT NEED TO DESCRIBE MUCH IF U LIKE ME SURE LIKE ME,HATE ME SURE HATE ME.

I AM ONLY INTO TEENS,HATE PEOPLE ABOVE AGE OF 19…. I AM NOT PAYING ANYONE COZ EXPERIENCE MUST BE MEMORABLE.

OK I WILL PAY U IF YOU LOOK LIKE BIEBER USED TO.

I AM A LOST MONSTER.

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antonywashere – Nov 11, 2018
Me and a friend we search a roommate in the 5ème, max 7 tenants. And if not, look ? to fuck, we never know..Friend is 16, I am 15, I am not french, I speak like a spanish cow, shit !!

Smiley – Nov 8, 2018
I’m actually 13, please don’t report. I’m just trying to find someone just like you!

Igorsilvap – Nov 5, 2018
I’m 16, I like drawing, listening to music stay at home and I also know how to make food and I’m willing to do a good English course❤?????

flexdatdikonme – Oct 30, 2018
I’m 17. I’m a noisy person, I like someone who will tolerate me at being noisy and do embarrassing shits with me.

 

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13reasonswhy, 23
All me to introduce myself, my name is Kurt Johnson, gay, disabled and a pagan witch… looking to to be your slave:

My disability:

1. Cerebral palsy
2. Spastic tetraplegia
3. Asthma
4. Hayever
5. Scoliosis of the spine
6. Eczema
7. Profuse sweating when hot
8. Sensitive skin
9. Poor circulation

Recently I paid a Master to dominate me in a dungeon in Glasgow – mum and dad found out where all my money was going and lost their shit… it could’ve put my support workers’ jobs in jeopardy – the Master abandoned me – my support worker accused me of sexual assault when I spasmed – I want to kill myself.

I know I might not get my happily every after but I pray I get my once upon a time….

Kurt x

 

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Rapeopferteen, 18
Who wants to rape me brutally and ruthlessly? I like to do RPGs related to chloroform. In the direction that my father uses me, raped while I am under chloroform influence and unconscious. Here, however, different scenarios are generally possible. I catch my father jerking off and get grabbed, chloroformed, stripped, dragged as dead weight by my feet or head hair to the nearest bed. It’s best to take all of the control of me, both with psychological games and physically because I’m crazy. Please be evil. Perfect to be kidnapped while unconscious and chloroformed constantly and raped forever away from prying eyes.

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Rapeopferteen (Owner) – Nov 16, 2018
Saying this because people seem to be too immature these days. If you are going to message assuming I’m fake and being rude then don’t be a coward and make excuses when I tell you to get on video chat so I can disprove your assumptions. You have the balls to accuse someone but not enough balls to be proven wrong? Grow up a bit and own up to your shit and admit when your wrong. Just ask to see if I am who I say and I will be more than happy to do so. No need to be a child. I’m real and I will give you the amount of me that you want, nothing less and nothing more. Need to know anything else? Then just chloroform and rape me because that is the whole point to this.

 

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slavewriter, 18
Hey Guys, I am Ray. I’m a writer, and I also swim in competitions.

99.9% of people can’t provide what I want, and I understand that. So instead of disappointing, I’ll pen you a story from my sick brain.

Give me an inch and I’ll give you a mile, send me your premise about me and this sub writer shall nauseate and disgust you.

 

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jeunecasserolle, 20
Young casserole for old stirring spoon ? get it tonight 27/10 in Issy Moulineaux from 21h.

 

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KingArthur, 21
I have no colon, but I have a heart.

 

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AngelikaLopezJones, 18
Hi sir, welcome to me! I am Alvin Escalier Pinanonang in real name and Angelika Lopez Jones is my name when I join beauty pageants since my mother is my inspiration. I am a model, a dancer, an eco warrior and an activist of anti-social media responsibility. I joined beauty pageants not because for any reason but just to be an inspiration to the many and I want to prove to my father that I am not just a gay, I am gay with a responsibility. I am also a servant leader in our school and as well as in my community. I am a person who have full of dreams and aspirations of greater servitude and I want to take this dreams into a reality. Being a servant is one of my biggest talents because I want to serve my community. I am just a natural servile person living with great vision and looking for a mission. So that’s it. This is all I got.

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AngelikaLopezJones (Owner) – Nov 19, 2018
Famous psycho stay away!

Famouspsycho – Nov 19, 2018
hi. i’m addicted to asian arse, love to rim, eat out, fuck, felch, arse-to-mouth, dp, sleazy bareback, and occasionally shove a fist or two up an asian shitter.

 

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sstrangler, 24
Hi I’m 5 ‘ 11” brown hair and muscular I love breathplay as in choking, suffocating, extreme strangling, drowning, and nooses, I also love KO, dying and being resuscitated, love feeling the lights in my brain turn off one by one, it’s all very enjoyable.

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unknown__user – Nov 1, 2018
Object is addled, needs 100% control and maximal cruelty.

 

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loseme, 18
①wearing glasses，age 18,but I ain’t naive
②i’ll feel anything I just don’t wanna feel nothing

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loseme (Owner) – Nov 9, 2018
i like every person who helps me

Yadyad – Nov 8, 2018
We were both interested in making him cry. I hit him with a belt and criticised him, that worked. It’s true his looks are nothing special but when he’s crying his face looks like it would be cute if he wasn’t crying, that was interesting.

MarriedButNotDead – Nov 2, 2018
He a very ordinary looking boy, which should not be meant negatively. The only difference is he can be fucked and I can say that he’s doing a damn good job.

 

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shitpacked, 21
Looking for someone to pack my ass full of shit. Love to be tied down and packed at your leisure, stomach and arse. All shit considered.

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John699 – Nov 16, 2018
there’s someone real who says he’s the fake and wants what the fake wants but fuck knows what he looks like if that’s true.

MaddlyInLove – Nov 14, 2018
Fakest profile ever.

 

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Fuckmeup, 25
We juulin and boolin
bhips ahoy bhocolate bhip bookie bhewy

 

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BodyWithoutOrgans, 18
Masochist. Not a fan of verbal abuse. I don’t really care about sex. I just want someone to whack me on the head, bust my nose, break a few bones, smash my teeth in and have a wank as i writhe in agony.

Otherwise i guess i’m pretty normal. I’m a big time Gilles Deleuze fan-boy. I do oil painting and i study music. Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares & Elliott Smith are some of the current favourites.

I have no long term goals in life, or anything i truly care deeply about as must be obvious.

I live alone down La Perouae Street, Griffith Canberra 67B. Just walk down the left side till you find my basement door where i am.

175 cm.
65 kg.

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Showmesome – Nov 20, 2018
im nonviolent but i just bought a canonSL2 and i can be your photo/videographer starting $50

 

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itsbritneybitch96, 21
– I will be always on my knees or my back in front of you
– Yes, I love being throat RAPED without ANY limits (mercilessly).
The bigger your dick is, the better. If you are afraid to throat rape me, please don’t contact me.
– All your load down my throat.
– ? + ? +?, especially at 4:20.
– I’m also intellectual and I’m equipped with popper.
– I’m also a video, I’m a very hexibe person, I do not have a problem.
– Oh my cock is taboo.
– I will serve you and you will take care of me and not kill me
– But you can ask to!

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LondonGun – Nov 24, 2018
If i fuck you like I want to I’m expecting your hole to be turned out like Tina Turner in a Bathtub

 

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Journey, 19
I am Venezuelan and poor and I want to leave. I like to suck the cocks of all who propose me. Please, donate me by Paypal [email protected] Or marry me to give me citizenship in any country that is not Venezuela. Preferably Mexico or USA. I am Italian Partly (My grandfather is Italian) And I was born with his Italian penis (You don’t have be interested in it, but if you want to know if it is big or small, I send you a private or photos to the email.) I like all the fetishes that Can you think of it? Just not fetish that cause me long term health problems, short term health problem is ok. Grrrr ??

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zerda – Nov 11, 2018
I am a home body. I like cooking and watching strange anime’s. I just got done with a 3 year break up due to growing apart over time. If you want honesty you got me. I am extremely independent. I have spent most of my life socializing with others. I am a type A personality and I like to just tell other people what to do. I’m a furry but I only really like it for the media. My most pleasurable way to have sex is to tie someone down and fuck him. I am very minimalistic. I don’t drink smoke curse or really go to restaurants or bars. I don’t like consumerism.

I don’t do anything illegal. I am part of the health profession so until marijuana becomes legal you can’t smoke it around me and I am allergic to cigarette smoke but nothing else. I like talking for hours on end about nothing and everything. I could help you over an emotional problem. I am working on finding my own happiness and could use you to make that happen. I will be an honest to goodness master for you. I don’t have time to deal with flakes, or people who are kinda just half into bdsm kinda at their convenience.

I’m looking for real substance. I know what looks like and I can pick up pretty hard how someone is. If you are sick of the 4000 stages of online to slavery then let’s have an actual emotional but imbalanced connection to each other. Won’t that mean a lot more to you?

 

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Jailscum, 24
Jailscum ready to be fully brain washed and branded eyes and ears permanently sealed shackled to a wall nailed on a cross sealed up permanently in a wall

 

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Fvckme11, 18
Hi again ❤️ (Oct 29,2018) 11:16pm New account I’m sorry for that. ??? LOST CONVO ? Love cheating on my boyfriend with pretty much anybody. ?? PS: ALSO FOR HIRE ?? Yes I’m effeminate and I say shit constantly. ??

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andreas93 – Nov 19, 2018
Hole slut. Flouncing queen. Won’t shut up. Groups ok. Libra.

pooch – Nov 9, 2018
He stripped and sat on a blowup plastic ball. He rocked back and forth for about one hour while we talked or he talked and I “listened”. He got dressed and left then I licked the ball where he’d been sitting and it tasted like butter.

leb78 – Nov 3, 20918
You can’t say anything without him having a catty long winded opinion about it and even with a gag in he keeps going “mmh mmh mmh”.

 

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FuckholeVacant, 20
I would like to get help with my anorexia and cutting myself but can never find the time… would you help me with that.

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FuckholeVacant (Owner) – Nov 5, 2018
Carl Luke, if you live far away from me, i can leave everything (my family, study) to be with you.

carl-luke – Nov 5, 2018
I have no interest in helping you, Anorexic cutter boys are my ultimate type, I’d love and would even pay to abuse you before you clean up.

HealingBowls – Oct 30, 2018
I would like to offer you help. My singing bowl massage is a very beautiful form of healing. Your body has it’s own vibrational frequency, which unfortunately can be distorted by external influences.
I will place singing bowls around and on your body. The vibration of the bowls have a restoring effect on our (mind) body, and above all provides a deep relaxation that you can often feel for years.
(This massage is unfortunately not suitable for you if you have heart problems (pacemaker), brain injury, balance disorders and if there are metals or plastics in your body.)

ColdReading90 – Oct 27, 2018
I’m a good listener, nothing else.

 

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22Dutch4BrutalFF, 22
I usually dont go for guys unless at a bar or a party I smoje meth I dont have a huge dick but I’d rather let you have ypur way with me and make me feel hot like I am I have a fiancee but she’s a girl and I need to get fisted I want to be in porn videos on cameras with some people Maybe if I was there and I didnt want to have sex you to taje off my pants and just fist me I like black guys fists cause they look hot but all fists do I’m down to let you film you fisting me I really want to just be ypur slut but in not that loose its been 6 months since I got a dick and im begging for it I want to lay under the stars smoje meth listen to music yhen you just stick your fist in my asd I like 50 year olds honestly but I’ll take fists from any hottie with a fist I’m with my fiancee right now but when im alone I’m going to send you dirty fotos of me text me your name and say your d t f thanks please I loveeeeee fist like I’m in love with it and btw I’m a total slut that cares about you and I’m couch surfing but I have a place wirh my friebds tonight I want to try gangfist but if your not down I don’t care

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SSatanicJEFF – Nov 12, 2018
HEY respond to me you worm! I’m SScary! I’m not looking for a grindr wank party with a wiped out bottom beating his soft meat! I’m not interested in “what will happen” questions from fucking moron wank fodder wastes of space! If you dont know what a privilege I’m offering you’re a fucking dickhead go watch 50 shades of grey and stay the fuck away from me! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE! I’M GIVING IT TO YOU! DON’T WASTE IT JUST BECAUSE YOURE SSCARED!

SSatanicJEFF – Nov 6, 2018
I’m a fuckin SSatanic muSScled up BeaSSt enjoys fuckin depraved SSex & SSadiSSm! Got a fuckin mean ass SSiberian Huskie who’s into the same fuckin stuff! Hit us up!

 

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Young-GOD, 19
so names blake im an active electric house dancer and i rarely like music older than 2014 but im also your normal “edgy” 2008 emo bottom so you can trace my ribcage with a knife and like yeah rawr XD

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icebatuFISTER – Nov 10, 2018
he got stoned n let me fist his ho

Effyversitaleman – Nov 7, 2018
Im into emos married so very discreet looking for discreet emo that can play in my car when i manage to get 30-hr free time away from wife. im available alot but randomly very into emos and always dreamnt of having a 3sum a emo orgy would be best thing ever without wife knowing if you have emo friends. i havent have a emo in 3 yrs im going nuts.

 

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Disposablepieceofshit, 19
I have just come from a relationship and the sex was standard and very boring.
I would like to get to know everything and also do everything, like SM and fisting.
Importantly, I love poz sperm and want to get AIDS and that’s why I do not want a condom during sex.
I had that with it now is over.
I would very much like to let myself go and get AIDS then I want any sick violent men to have sex with me.
I know it sounds weird, but that makes me horny.

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Disposablepieceofshit (Owner) – Nov 15, 2018
MasterAlexxx has taken ownership of me. He is a mess but I feel blessed to be stuck with him.

MasterAlexxx – Nov 2, 2018
Now your wait is over, I will be your master !! You have to report to me immediately !
I am your God, to whom you have to serve and you are my little piece of shit !
You will lick your fingers after touching me, if you get the opportunity.
You crawl shit, walking upright I only allow my servants.
I’ll make you pig you worthless.
No drugs/poppers whatsoever, just you and me as pure and intense as we can make it possible !
It will be an honor for you to be allowed to swallow my AIDS.
As a coronation, I will shit in your stinky mouth and woe if something goes wrong, then you will receive further retaliation !!!
Create an altar with my pictures and worship me, you little shit, as befits a subhuman like you !!!
You just can not help it, so drop and get into my hands.
Convince yourself !!!

 

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ILoveMusic, 18
Make a bitch. Make my porn too. Bind me to the ropes and leave. Leave me girls’ clothes. Im macedonian teen. I speak inglish NOT VERY GOOD. So dont be panic if i dont understud.

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macabre – Nov 16, 2018
Deal with me. Let’s make it your life.

MA-LO – Oct 29, 2018
He is from Macedonia and has never been abroad. He speaks no language besides his mother tongue. Therefore, he is shy by default, but once you accept he’s just a body that you can’t understand, he thaws so much. He is only passive, and absolutely passive, or that was my interpretation.

 

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Filip, 18
Hey, I’m looking for the following:

Hunks or older twinks, middle to late twenties, I would be passive.

Daddys (no age limit), well hung and financially well equipped to support me, because I would be purely passive.

Masculine, muscular types, very much like Arabs or Blacks, preferably with a very big cock, with you I would be purely passive.

TS, old does not matter, with you I would be active and passive

I am always happy about hot older women, I would be active.

I stand by that:
Muscles or well-equipped or TS or rich and generous old or TS, taller than me. Any woman.

I absolutely stand on this clear role distribution

No Go’s:
Anyone my age, boys, girls, twinks, yuccccck!

If you write me please send pictures (best: cock and face) and imagine a little before so when I ask you to seduce me you don’t hem and haw.

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whitesockslover – Nov 13, 2018
He’s in his late 20s, just short and well preserved. He’s also very political and very far right just as a warning if you think stunning cuteness is a final destination.

Filip (Owner) – Nov 7, 2018
No one has ever rejected me.

davedavid – Nov 7, 2018
I would rethink your strategy with that “I am Tadzio” shot because your boxy face can’t compete with the image it brings to mind and you suffer by comparison.

xmancx – Oct 31, 2018
Not a slave by any stretch of the most liberal imagination. Just a little sociopathic hottie working his looks from every possible angle hoping to get as much attention as he can while he still has them.

Michel – Oct 21, 2018
Filip is originally from Sweden. However, he has been living in Austria since early childhood. That explains his really sweet dialect. With him you experience a mixture of a little crazy youth, a native blood of Scandinavia and the Austrian serenity. It is very hot to fuck him.

 

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HumanTrash, 22
I’m real drunk rn lol need everything, especially your dick, just looking for a guy to take my ass already, if you say hi I’m probs gonna suck your dick

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HumanTrash (Owner) – Nov 18, 2018
Since people say they want to know, when I’m not drunk (like now) I study at Goldsmiths. I perform stand-up. Like the cinema and theatre. Run. Do yoga. Generally a fuck up and act like a clown. That good enough for you?

 

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takesallthedicks, 22
By order of its Master, a day in its life- every morning it’s Master gets His coffee and breakfast. Then when he is ready He releases it. Master normal keeps it bound and hooded. With a chain lock to its collar from the bed post. It sleeps at the foot of the bed. Master keeps it in a open mouth hood. So that it can lick and worship it’s Masters feet and suck His ass or cock if He should choose to during the night. We have breakfast. It eats underneath the table from dog bowls in front of Masters feet. He enjoys feeding it with His feet. Or just shoving its face in the bowl. Depending on the day if it excites Master it is tortured. If it bores Master it spends its day locked in a reverse straight jacket chained to the floor of a closet.

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takesallthedicks (Owner) – Nov 6, 2018
Life is still surprising me. I like feel that I live.

zapomne – Nov 6, 2018
Is it everything you’d hoped for?

 

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guesswho, 20
I’m looking for less out of life.
Examples:
Relax on your phone while I’m under the sheets and I swallow your big farts in my throat so you don’t have to smell it and I’m used as a vacuum.
A few things I’m useful for: I am
– A fart vacuum
– A trash can for your trash
– A balls towel
– A chair
It’s taken me a long time to discover that for me sex is in my brain.

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guesswho (Owner) – Nov 6, 2018
Liar.

XBXBB – Nov 6, 2018
I love you

 

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NOW, 18
11/06/18, 03h18, scene went too far, looking to unload 18 yr object in berlin NOW or next 6 hrs max.

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Anonymous – Oct 12, 2018
that was disturbing.

NOW (Owner) – Oct 6, 2018
04h16 problem solved, deleting this

NOW (Owner) – Oct 6, 2018
03h27 next question

TCC – Oct 6, 2018
is it dead?

 

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Methodical, 21
I am a Skunk Furry. I have a rubber doll suit, a former gimp suit that had to be modified to a simple rubber suit, 2 rubber breath play hoods, a gimpy PU leather pup hood, PLENTY of Gas Masks, a Level A Hazmat Suit and a Level D Hazmat Suit, Stink Bomb Spray, Inflatable Ball Hood, Inflatable gimp hood, and an inflatable diaper. I enjoy post hardcore music and mid 2000’s stuff.

I also have an underwear fetish but it’s very specific. It’s only straight guy underwear like boxers or boxer briefs that are Champions Under Armour, Fruit of the Loom, Hanes or Jockey. Gay underwear like Andrew Christian and 2xist is a real turn off to me. So are jockstraps. Straight guys wear compression shorts to the gym. I should know I hang out at a lot of straight gyms.

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Methodical (Owner) – Nov 10, 2018
None of your business but a piece of meat with 2 holes.

ass4tongue – Nov 10, 2018
Cute face but describe your body?

Methodical (Owner) – Nov 10, 2018
Nothing, I guess plaudits.

MrExtraOrdinary – Nov 10, 2018
You’re hot what are you looking for?

 

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breakmein2, 21
Cute blonde boy wants YOUR PISS IN My mouth here at a noghtclub toilety bring your friends as well and LAUGH at me how desperate I am while you gather around me.

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looking4true – Nov 4, 2018
If it matters, he’s a very good poet.

 

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redblack666, 19
in real life m a sporty sch boy who wun go quiet, bt on de other side i hv been tinking of tis slave thing like sum1 owning me. often hv fantasies like sum1 kidnapping me straight off frm sch, throw me into car, tie me up, put me in sum big box, drive for hrs, pull me out into hse, get spanked, ask to crawl, n anithin. i tok a lot too so ned to do sumthin on tat oso. 😛

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MasterWavedon – Nov 9, 2018
As always with these young ones who grew up with iPhones and social media, they have no idea what true longterm inactivity and boredom is like. They think having a Master means some guy’s going to fuck them and whack them around 24/7. Maybe it’s the superhero movies. I’ve had redblack666 chained up in my basement for three weeks, isolated except feeding, occasional sex and torture. Until four days ago, he was crying and yelling and begging day and night to be entertained, but he has now sunk into a deep depressed, nihilistic state. Yum, as the young ones say.

redblack666 (Owner) – Oct 15, 2018
now im owned slave of Master Wavedon wif rites 2 access any parts of me anitime and m nuttin now.

 

 

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p.s. RIP Robert Morris. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Well, at least indie bookstores and record stores are thriving, at least cultishly. Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein has a new article/think piece for your delectation titled ‘LGBTQ Talent Ready for Their Close-Up’, subtitled ‘The dilemma of acting a role versus being a role’, and I highly encourage you to click this and read it. ** MANCY, Hey, S! I hear you, man. You good, unanxious, thriving? ** Bill, Most definitely. I think there may literally be a Weerasethakul film set in one, or I’m hallucinating. I liked ‘Happy End’. It’s very Haneke, so you have to like his thing. Everyone I know over here liked it a lot, but almost everyone I know over there (USA) didn’t, so I don’t know what that means. Yes, I saw a pic of Kevin backed up against a bookshelf and surrounded by topless skinny dudes in masks or something. Wack. Oh, for future reference, the PGL screening in SF will be on Feb. 2nd or 3rd. More details soon. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey, Ben. Happy to see the happily brusque Glaswegians, thank you. Speaking of, both PGL and I may be in Glasgow early-ish next year if current plans work out. I’ll connect myself to the Dopplereffekt album via headphones, gratitude for the heads up. ** KeatonAround TheXmasTree, ‘Tis the season now if not before! Big congrats on the good new job! There was a big, early-pomo looking indoor mall shaped like an infinity sign near where I grew up that I biked to constantly that must be torn down now, I guess, shit. La Defense depresses me. I don’t know why. Or I guess I do know. I think it’s only non-depressing to visitors. I still wear Gap jeans. In fact, I’m going to go buy a new pair in the next days. I think ‘bullshit’ on the jeans ageist thing. I’m the opposite. If it’s over 60, I’m chagrined. Paris is very Xmas-ed up now. Pretty as can be. But too wrapped up in cold for you probably. ** Sypha, Hi. I’m shocked there isn’t a game like the one you daydream about and crave. Huh. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. It’s not a bad idea whatsoever to have a trusted outsider look at your edit before you lock it in. As much as I dreaded showing PGL while the edit was in progress, and as much as I disagreed with most of the feedback, the objectivity it brought to the process was very helpful. I would be very surprised if France ever allowed something like US Netflix to flourish here. As you know, Cannes didn’t accept Netflix films, for better or probably worse. Although with extremely business-friendly Macron in power, anything seems possible. Everyone, Mr. Erickson weighs in on Milad Alami’s film THE CHARMER exactly here. ** Joey, Hi. I saw your email this morning, and I’ll open it. Well, like I said, the other email you sent was empty, had nothing in it, so both, I guess. Sounds like your acquainted person is quite thin skinned. Oh, I saw you put a vid of the new Serge Lutens store on your FB page. Apropos, I live about a 1 1/2 minute walk from it. Love, me. ** Right. Last day of the month, slaves, all is normal within the world around here. See you tomorrow.

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‘Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the son of the sculptor Paul Belmondo. He performed poorly at school but developed a passion for boxing and football. By the time he reached his twenties, Belmondo had decided to pursue a career in acting. After a number of attempts, he was enrolled at the Paris Conservatory to study drama, although his tutors were not optimistic about his prospects.

‘After graduating, he began his professional career on stage and spent the first half of the 1950s working in the theatre. He made his film debut in 1956 and appeared in several minor films over the next years, most notably Les Copains du Dimanche (1957) and his first starring role, alongside another up-and-coming new actor named Alain Delon, in Sois Belle et Tais-Toi (1957)

‘The coming of the French New Wave in 1959 finally brought Belmondo real stardom. In that year he appeared first in Claude Chabrol’s A Double Tour, which received little notice. It was his next performance, however, as the anti-hero Michel Poiccard in Jean-Luc Godard’s A Bout de Souffle, whichmade him an international star. Defiant, reckless, witty and amoral, Belmondo’s Poiccard was the perfect protagonist for Godard’s revolutionary break with the past. The success of the film even resulted in a wave of “Belmondism” in the hipper circles of Paris, with young men modelling themselves on him.

‘Belmondo revealed unexpected versatility in his next roles, acting opposite Sophia Loren in Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women (1960) and as the enigmatic priest in Jean-Pierre Melville’s World War II drama Leon Morin, Petre (1961). He worked with Godard again for the musical comedy A Woman is a Woman (1961), and with Melville on the film noir/gangster homage Le Doulos (1963).

‘In Pierrot le Fou (1965), his next collaboration with Godard, Belmondo plays a writer who leaves behind his unhappy life and sets off on a crazy road trip with the babysitter played by Anna Karina. Together they battle gunrunners, gas station attendants, and American tourists in a story that mixes high and pop culture with brilliant artistry. Standing in for Godard, as a man who cannot choose between art and life, Belmondo inhabits his character effortlessly.

‘Although he had become synonymous at this stage of his career with the films of the New Wave directors, Belmondo also played more mainstream roles in films such as the period swashbuckler Cartouche (1962), the romantic comedy La Chasse a L’Homme (1964) and Philippe De Broca’s action comedy L’Homme de Rio (1964). Capitalising on his increasing drawing power, he founded his own production company called Cerito to produce many of his films.

‘Drawing on his earlier athletic prowess, Belmondo became renowned for doing his own stunts as well as for his charming screen presence in such movies as the hit Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine (1965), the comic caper The Brain (1968), and the second film with Delon, Borsalino (1970). At the same time, Belmondo appeared in all-star international productions such as Rene Clement’s all-star World War II epic Is Paris Burning? (1966), and the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967).

‘He continued his association with the Nouvelle Vague directors, starring in Francois Truffaut’s romantic drama Mississippi Mermaid (1969) opposite Catherine Deneuve, Louis Malle’s crime comedy Le Voleur (1967), Claude Chabrol’s black comedy Docteur Popaul (1972), and Alain Resnais ambitious biopic of a famous speculator and con man from the 1930s, Stavisky (1974).

The failure of this last film however, appears to have dissuaded Belmondo from working with the more experimental New Wave filmmakers, and, from this time forward, he began appearing almost exclusively in more commercially oriented features. Among them L’Incorrigible (1975), directed by de Broca, and the crime thrillers Peur Sur la Ville (1975) and L’Alpagueur (1976).

‘In 1978 Belmondo began a profitable collaboration with director Georges Lautner on the hit comedy thriller Flic ou Voyou. They continued their successful run with Le Guignolo (1979), Le Professionnel (1981), the comedy Joyeuses Paques! (1984), and the mystery L’Inconnu dans la Maison (1992).

‘In 1987, Belmondo returned to the stage for the first time since 1959 and divided his efforts between theatre and film from then on. Though he continued his genre work in the 1990s with the romantic comedy Desire (1996) and his third co-starring turn with Delon in Patrice Leconte’s action comedy 1 Chance Sur 2 (1998), Belmondo also branched out creatively as part of the ensemble in Agnes Varda’s homage to international cinema Les Cents et une Nuits de Simon Cinema (1995) and as the Jean Valjean figure in Claude Lelouch’s 20th century reworking of Les Miserables (1995).

‘Well regarded in the French film world as well as by movie audiences throughout his career, Belmondo was elected president of the French actor’s union in 1963, and was awarded a Cesar for his performance in Lelouch’s romance Itineraire d’un Enfant Gate (1988). He has also been made a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Merite and a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur. In 2001, he suffered a stroke and was absent from stage and screen until his acclaimed comeback performance in Un Homme et Son Chien (2008).’ — New Wave Film

 

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Further

Jean-Paul Belmondo @ IMDb
Jean-Paul Belmondo Fansite
Video: ‘C’est quoi Jean-Paul Belmondo ?’
‘Jean-Paul Belmondo in saga of love, death threats and lap-dancing clubs’
‘Jean-Paul Belmondo : «C’est la dernière fois que je parle»’
J-PB @ Films de France
J-PB page @ Facebook
‘Jean-Paul Belmondo : “Avec Alain Delon, on se disputait souvent”‘
Poem: ‘Jean-Paul Belmondo’,
BY VALZHYNA MORT
‘Lelouch : “Jean-Paul Belmondo a inventé Godard”‘
J-PB @ The Criterion Collection
‘Rafae Nadal is in final stop of career: Jean-Paul Belmondo’
Video: ‘comment Jean-Paul Belmondo est devenu une icône’
‘Jean-Paul Belmondo, 82 printemps en 25 photos culte’
‘Jean-Paul Belmondo : “Le dernier des classiques”‘

 

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Extras

Jean-Paul Belmondo – Interview (1959)

Jean-Paul Belmondo 1961 interview

Epreuve de casting (1964)

Jean Paul Belmondo chez Monsieur Cinéma en 1975

Vivement Dimanche: Jean-Paul Belmondo (2008)

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Which of your films do you hold the first?
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO. ” Breathless “. This is the first film that brought me glory. I did not imagine it would be a success. And Jean Seberg was like me. We shot without lights, without anything. But the text was good. In the end, Seberg told me, “He will not release this movie. ”

Did not you mind dying in the end?
No, I agreed on everything. Godard told me, “He’s a guy who meets a girl, and at the end, maybe he’ll be dead or not. Godard has always been kind to me. And I did what he asked. I even sang in “Pierrot le Fou”.

Did you have a lot of fun on filming?
Yes, our big game, completely stupid, was to destroy the hotel rooms. We threw all the furniture out of the windows, I hope we did not hurt anyone …

Did you have rock star behavior?
Yes … It happened to me today, thankfully.

With Gabin, on the set of “A Monkey in Winter”, how was the atmosphere?
At first, a little cool. We went for a coffee and when I paid the bill, I wanted to pay. He said to me, “No, everyone’s his share! I thought: it’s gone wrong. After, it was a love. In scenes of drunkenness, we were never drunk. But in the evening, we had java together, we drank shots of whiskey. He told me about his life, his career, and I was very interested. And then we talked about football, boxing, cycling. He arrived the next morning, saying: “My head hurts, so a ham and a salad. It was really happy.

It is striking to see these cascades of extreme danger that you realize yourself! You were a real daredevil …
When I was six years old, I was already hanging on the stairs of the fifth floor and I was walking on the rooftops. I liked it a lot, but my mother was scared. The stunt Gilles Delamare advised me to do the first stunts in the “Man of Rio”. I must say that, hanging on this cable between two buildings of Brasilia, I was a little afraid. He guided me not to fall.

You had the baraka not to hurt you more …
I never thought of death. Once, on a car crash, I had a broken leg – six months in the cast – and a vertebral corset. But I had muscles for that, and I was doing a lot of muscle training to talk to. I remember a flight to New York in Concorde. Suddenly, over the Atlantic, one engine breaks down, then a second. The hostesses are drinking for everyone because people are starting to panic. A guy gets up and throws at me, “Do something, Mr. Belmondo. What could I do? (Laughter). Me, I did not think we would fall, but the passengers, yes. Finally, the plane landed without damage.

As a former boxer, did you like casting in life too?
Yes, but it was years ago. The punches were good. We were banging on each other, and then we drank one shot together. Now, it’s no longer that at all, the guys come out a knife or a gun right away.

You have always been a great seducer ...
It is true that I held in my arms beautiful women … Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale. With Ursula Andress, we stayed together for several years. But they made me a pretty exaggerated reputation as a great seducer.

Women had to wait for you every night at your hotel …
Oh yes, that. It was good (laughs). It was a time of carelessness. We were leaving at the end of the world to turn. Hong Kong, Nepal, India. In Kathmandu, for “the Tribulation of a Chinese in China,” people had almost venerated me when I saw myself grabbing a rope in the air. They had never seen that.

“Borsalino” does not appear in your box. Why ?
For rights issues. I wish he were there. For Alain Delon. I have always loved him. At the time, we were both actors who walked, so we had to fight. We quarreled a little, but three times nothing. He has always been there in difficult times.

You can look back on your life …
No, not so much, you have to live with your time. I am always surprised and very happy that people stop me for autographs. I love them so much, people.

Will you see you again at the cinema?
You’d have to find a funny character, who misses the use of an arm and who has difficulty with one leg. Maybe the role of a guy who comes back from the war. Me, I’m like all actors, I never finished. If I am offered a role that I like, I will do it.

 

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17 of Jean-Paul Belmondo’s 90 films

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Claude Chabrol À double tour (1959)
‘A double tour, Claude Chabrol’s third film, is his debut psychological thriller, a genre he subsequently transformed in films like Les Bonnes Femmes and L’Enfer. Through (expert use of flashbacks and vignettes – NY Times) Chabrol creates a lurid and disturbing melodrama of infidelity, obsession and murder at a vineyard in rural Provence. Vintner Henri Marcoux (Jacques Dacqmine) brazenly carries on an affair with a beautiful young neighbor (Antonella Lualdi) right under the nose of his bitter wife Thérèse (Madeleine Robinson). Henri’s gorgeous daughter has herself caught the eye of a Hungarian ne’er do well (Jean-Paul Belmondo), while Henri’s voyeur son begins to take liberties with his father’s mistress. As the family’s passions ripen, the stage is set for tragedy. Demonstrating (a flair for the camera and characterization – NY Times) Chabrol leads his gifted cast through (fine performances – NY Times). Italo-Greek ingénue Antonella Lualdi is a (dark, striking beauty who could easily turn a man’s head – NY Times), and storied French stage actress Madeleine Robinson (Orson Welles’ The Trial) received the Best Actress prize at the 1959 Venice Film Festival for her role. Belmondo is magnetic in his final part before Breathless (in which he used his character’s name from A double tour as an alias) catapulted him to international stardom. Released in the US as Leda in 1961, Variety called A double tour a (sleek whodunit,) with (good camera work and tricky direction.) Viewed today, A double tour’s swooping camera and character eccentricity echo both Alfred Hitchcock’s most personal and obsessive films and Douglas Sirk’s colorful 1950s melodramas.’ — collaged

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Jean-Luc Godard Breathless (1960)
‘The opening of Breathless is “unprecedented,” in that we never learn what route brought Michel Poiccard to the Vieux Port of Marseille, where he surveys the future from the very edge of France. This first shot strikes a match to touch off an oil fire that will race through the film’s incidents and images, indeed through the New Wave altogether. A girlie tabloid filling the screen slips down to reveal the face of Jean-Paul Belmondo, cigarette dangling from his lips, as he looks out from under his rakishly cocked hat. His head swivels, and he rubs those lips with his thumb; he is ready for action. At a signal from a female accomplice, he hot-wires a big Oldsmobile just parked by an American military man touring with his wife. Abandoning the girl, who begs to be taken along, Poiccard drives off, exhaling in the flush of freedom, “Maintenant je fonce, Alphonse!” We can feel Godard’s own outlaw freedom in this sequence, carjacking a Hollywood genre and putting it into drive. The film lurches forward as he shifts up with wild shot changes; it charges ahead (il fonce) on bursts of music and sound effects, and on Belmondo’s spontaneous speeches, directed right to the camera, to us. Character and auteur will gun down the French authorities when stopped for questioning. From Marseille, Poiccard makes his way to Paris, to the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Latin Quarter, then to the Champs-Élysées and its movie theaters (right under the offices of Cahiers du cinéma), where he shares the street with the crowds cheering Charles de Gaulle, head of the brand-new Fifth Republic. He will wind up in Montparnasse, on the rue Campagne-Première, the legendary street where Kiki hung out, as did Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Yves Klein. Breathless brings anarchy into the heart of Paris.’ — Dudley Andrew

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Peter Brook Moderato cantabile (1960)
‘One of those movies that mesmerizes through its restraint, this is set in a dreary coastal small town—familiar territory for French cinema—where Anne Desbarèdes (Moreau) is the beautiful, bored wife of the principal local employer (Deschamps); “No,” she says at one point, summarizing not just the starkness of the place but her own life there, “summer never comes in this region. It’s always windy.” One afternoon she’s watching her young son Pierre (Haudepin) take his piano lesson from the elderly Miss Giraud (Regis) when his faltering rendition of Anton Diabelli’s Sonatina in F (op 168 #1, first movement indicated as moderato cantabile) is interrupted by a long, uncanny howl of agony. Investigating, Anne and Pierre discover that a man (Valeric) has murdered his lover in a nearby bar, the Café de la Gironde, a place that seems normally a territory open only to men and whores. Anne catches the eye of one of the bar’s regulars, Chauvin (Belmondo), who happens also to be one of her husband’s countless employees. She asks him if he knows the backstory of the murder, and he tells her he’ll do his best to find out. Although the bar’s owner (de Boysson) tells him that no one knows anything about the matter, Chauvin invents details to impart to Anne: “Maybe he wanted to kill her very early on, from the moment he first saw her.”’ — Noirish

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Jean-Luc Godard Une femme est une femme (1961)
‘Une Femme Est Une Femme – Jean-Luc Godard’s first venture in colour – perfectly captures the spirit of French New Wave cinema. The movement, pioneered in the late 50s and early 60s, rejected popular cinematic formats, seeking out new and alternative subject matters; it frequently touched upon social issues, while embracing a youthful spirit and experimental approach to form. Godard’s 1961 masterpiece features his long-term muse, a playful Anna Karina, whom he married during the film’s production. The story focuses on the relationship between Karina’s character Angéla, a strong willed exotic dancer who is desperate for a child, and her unwilling lover Émile, who isn’t so keen on the idea. Throughout the film, Angela shines through as a woman of great conviction and courage in what is a remarkable study of female independence in 1960s France. Here we look at some of her best moments, and what we can learn from them.’ — AnOther Magazine

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Jean-Pierre Melville Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
‘Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow—played by Emmanuelle Riva—a religious skeptic whose relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos.’ — The Criterion Collection

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Jean-Pierre Melville Le doulos (1962)
‘This 1962 film, Melville’s seventh feature, was his first true foray into the post–film noir, so-called Série noire crime genre in which he would subsequently forge some of his most celebrated works: Le samouraï, Le cercle rouge, and Le deuxième souffle. Yes, Melville’s 1956 Bob le flambeur told the tale (eventually!) of a casino heist, and his 1959 Deux hommes dans Manhattan has its eponymous two men undertake a missing-persons case. But both films are discursive, rambling affairs, often concentrating on the charms of their respective settings (the fairy-tale sleaze of Bob’s Montmartre/ Pigalle, the Broadway bright lights of Deux hommes), and ending things reasonably well for their heroes (Bob le flambeur, in particular, is one of the greatest shaggy-dog stories ever put on film). In Le doulos, Melville makes his genre move with a vengeance; for all its atmospheric touches, it has a relentless forward movement unprecedented in any of his prior films. Which is at least slightly paradoxical, as all of Le doulos’ characters are living in the past.’ — Glenn Kenny

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Jean-Pierre Melville L’aîné des Ferchaux (1963)
‘A venerable banker from Paris leaves for America when he discovers there will be an investigation into his questionable business deals. Accompanied by his faithful protégé Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the pair travels to New York by plane and eventually to New Orleans by car. Michel plans to make off with the boss’s money, but feelings of loyalty for the old man prevent him from carrying out his planned heist.’ — Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Marcel Ophüls Peau de banane
‘Peau de banane is only watchable thanks to its top-notch cast, but they cannot make it unforgettable. There is simply no rhythm in the plot, stuff happens and there never is a consistent effort to come up with a real twist so it is all boringly linear. The worst is that with this cast you hope something will eventually happen, so you seat the whole movie through and unfortunately this only helps to prove it is entirely devoid of imagination, snappy situations or even finely chiselled characters. I would say crook comedy is basically an easy genre just like heist movies, yet you have to really try to make it interesting. It cannot be the story of a sting only with minor bumps. I can’t even think of one great scene – let alone a brilliant one. So this movie fully deserves to have fallen into oblivion.’ — vostf

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Jean-Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou (1965)
‘In his earlier films, Godard had relied on preexisting frameworks to guide his spontaneous invention, whether Hollywood genres (as in Breathless, Band of Outsiders, and Alphaville) or the intellectual modernism of Brecht or Barthes (as in Vivre sa vie and A Married Woman). But by the time he started shooting Pierrot le fou, the film noir conventions underlying it no longer inspired him, and his theoretical references were in a state of flux due to his political anger as the Vietnam War escalated. The result of Godard’s personal, cinematic, and intellectual turmoil was an immediate creation that reached, even for Godard, new heights of spontaneity and lightning invention—and this was largely an effort to compensate for his inability to be methodical even by the casual terms of his own practiced methods. Shortly after completing the film, he told Cahiers du cinéma: “In my other films, when I had a problem, I asked myself what Hitchcock would have done in my place. While making Pierrot, I had the impression that he wouldn’t have known how to answer, other than ‘Work it out for yourself.’” Godard had had trouble working it out. Classic Hollywood forms couldn’t sustain him as they had in his previous film, Alphaville, which depended heavily on the conventions of the secret-agent and science-fiction genres. Not only was his absorption of the entire classical cinema of no help to him, but also his own experience as a filmmaker was of little use. He said that, in making Pierrot le fou, he felt as if he were making his “first film”; he had lost his North Star of cinematic navigation, and was out at sea.’ — Richard Brody

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Rene Clement Is Paris Burning? (1966)
‘Hollywood has long been skillful in turning good books into bad movies, but Is Paris Burning is an unfortunate perversion of that well-worn theme–it takes a pretentious chunk of bad journalism and turns it into an even worse film. One is nearly awestruck at the achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade. The acting is a monument to awkwardness. Only Jean Paul Belmondo seems to see the ludicrous futility in it all–he looks as if he were going to wink at any moment.’ — The Harvard Crimson

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Louis Malle Le voleur (1967)
‘Louis Malle based loosely his movie on the book by Georges Darien, novelist committed against parliamentarism, clericalism, militarism, colonialism, etc. The filmmaker himself noted the similarities between himself and Georges Randal: same social background, same revolt against the conservative bourgeoisie, same desire to rupture and destruction. The Thief, overall, is not only an adventure film, it is also a reflection on power and money, as well as a satire of the French “bourgeoisie”.’ — Cine Club

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Francois Truffaut Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
‘Mississippi Mermaid has the form of a preposterous romantic melodrama, but it is so full of lovely, complex things – of unannounced emotions, of ideas, of the memories of other movies (Truffaut’s, as well as of those of two of his father-figures, Renoir and Hitchcock) – that it defies easy definition and blithely triumphs over what initially appears to be structural schizophrenia. This bewitching, circuitous love story starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo at their most dazzling. It is the creation of a superior moviemaker who works eccentrically in the classical tradition.’ — Vincent Canby

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Jacques Deray Borsalino (1970)
‘Jean Paul Belmondo later sued Delon over the matter of billing – the words “an Alain Delon Production” appeared before Belmondo’s name in the credits, resulting in Belmondo taking Delon to court. Delon said when promoting the film in the US: “We are still what you in America call pals or buddies. But we are not friends. There is a difference. He was my guest in the film but still he complained. I like him as an actor but as a person, he’s a bit different. I think his reaction was a stupid reaction… almost like a female reaction. But I don’t want to talk about him anymore.” Delon’s associate producer, Pierre Caro, later claimed at the same time: “If you ask me, I think Belmondo was afraid from the first to make a picture with Alain. He demanded the same number of close ups. Alain had to cancel a lot of his best scenes because they made him look better than Belmondo. My own feeling is that they will never work together again. Alain says they will but he lies.” Director Jacques Deray reflected, “All through production Delon was impeccable, never interfered. But when the film was completed Delon the producer stepped in and took it over.”‘ — collaged

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Alain Resnais Stavisky… (1974)
‘Alain Resnais’ Stavisky shares only its brilliance with his other work. His films have never had a consistent visual style, if only because he begins with such dissimilar material and then tries to find a look for it that’s appropriate. But even so, we’d hardly anticipate this elegant, sparkling period piece from the director of Hiroshima Mon Amour and La Guerre Est Finie. Resnais sets his film in the France of the early 1930s, when a shaky economy is being held together by the lies and bluffs of the ruling class. One of the greatest of the manipulating financiers, and certainly the most fascinating, is Alexandre Stavisky, the emigre son of a Russian Jewish dentist, who’s parlayed his personal charm and confidence schemes into a vast stock swindle. To play Stavisky, Renais chose Jean-Paul Belmondo, and it’s perfect casting. There’s something in Belmondo’s screen personality that fundamentally suggests the con man. It was there in the jauntiness of his first movie, Breathless, and in Cartouche, a movie totally unlike this one except for Belmondo’s cocky bravado in the face of certain defeat Belmondo has grown and become more subtle in 15 years, and in Stavisky, he gives us his most complex and probably his best performance.’ — Roger Ebert

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Claude Lelouche Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
‘Along with a strong visual sense that makes the most of his locations, Lelouch uses a fluid timeline, drifting back and forth for much of the first quarter, but unlike his more self-indulgent ensemble pieces here there’s always a clear sense of where the film is going and why we should care about these people. On one level it’s a curious mix of drama, light comedy, mild romance and feelgood whimsy that has a bit of everything without ever going all out in any one direction, yet somehow it all works rather perfectly. The hesitant Anconina’s an amiable foil but it’s Belmondo’s performance that really anchors the film with a perfect mixture of star quality and underplayed heartfelt acting as a man who has everything but, though he’ll never admit it, knows he’s somehow not got anything really right along the way and, having broken all his toys, tries to walk away. It’s not a particularly profound or insightful script, though it is much better than usual for Lelouch, but the star and the filmmaking manage to elevate the material to something surprisingly satisfying.’ — Trevor Willsmer

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Agnes Varda One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
‘One Hundred and One Nights was made in the not insignificant year of 1995, to mark the centenary of cinema, and the film celebrates the art form in its own peculiar narrative – our central character is Monsieur Cinema (Michel Piccoli), a centenarian in a mansion losing his memory, who wants to relive cinema while also being a very obviously allegoric personification of cinema itself, assuming the look of characters as varied as Nosferatu and Norma Desmond. He hires a young cinephile (Julie Gayet) to come each evening (“between the hours of 5 and 7”, a cheeky reference to Varda’s own landmark film, Cleo from 5 to 7) to come and remind him of films past – describing the legendary opening shot of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, for example. In between he is visited by a parade of legendary film stars who stop and talk, some as themselves, some as characters, in what becomes a showcase revolving door for a who’s who of post-war European cinema. In addition to Piccoli and Mastroianni with the meatiest parts, we are joined by Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gerard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau in addition to Robert De Niro and blink-and-you’ll-miss cameos from Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford, amongst many others. Some are instantly recognisable, others less so (Belmondo did not age as gracefully as come of his colleagues) as they swap stories, relive moments. It’s flimsy and paper-thin as a gimmick, but too enjoyable and luminescent in its star power, while never taking the film too seriously, with the actors addressing the camera continuously and going in and out of character – Piccoli, not only is Monsieur Cinema, but himself; he takes his wig off with Marcello as they compare their respective bath scenes in both Contempt and 8½.’ — 4:3

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Bertrand Blier Les acteurs (2000)
‘Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema. Supported by a solid reflection about cinema and acting (the fourth wall, the hidden cameras, to play or not to play), the story of this film in which most of those famous actors play their own role (not to be mixed up with living their life in front of the camera – the film is not voyeur) is quite vague, and follows the actors in series of episodes which make the film quite amusing. As André Dussolier quits the film and leaves Josiane Balasko to play his part (great actress, she’s hilariously serious especially when, in Dussolier’s role, she bitches about herself), as actors run in each other on the street, asking for autographs, as fights and gossip happen, we recognize pastiche of other scenes in which each (or others) have played. Actually, for whoever does not know the actors (most of them being at least in their 50s) or does not know French Cinema, this movie has less interest, since most of the references will be missed, but it will still offer a good track of reflection on aging, on acting, on public life…’ — Oreste

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[Making of] ‘Les Acteurs’

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Happy to hear the Kurosawa event went so well. Kicking myself that I wasn’t there to go. Any chance it was videoed? ** Kytuna, Grandma’s basement, exciting! I saw the Offspring live once ages ago. It was surprisingly fun. Huh, interesting proposed career trajectory. My first published fiction book(let) was so, so, so bad that I almost pray all the extant copies wound up in Paradise, California. I haven’t been to the Grevin in ages, and it’s walking distance, and it’s right next to Hard Rock Cafe. I think a cheeseball field trip is in the offing. ** Nik, Hi! Super glad that you found the post interesting. Yeah, very curious medium. A collaborative director is key, I think. Gisele is very collaborative with her performers, such that they feel like it’s their work too, which it is, and I think that makes a huge difference. Yeah, that sounds to have been a very, very interesting piece/experience. I do like the ARTE script. I do think the TV series will be really good. And I think trying to finesse what amounts to compromising is quite a useful exercise, but it’s just not anywhere near as pleasurable to write as something wherein either I am the boss, or Zac and I are, or a super-trusted, same-brain-wave occupying someone like Gisele is. Well, trying to preserve the experiments in the earlier versions of the script while housing them palatably is certainly an experiment, I guess. Thanks, man. It’ll be good. I’m just spoiled basically, ha ha. Have a great one. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. I don’t think those qualify since I believe a tableau vivant involves either in-person real-time observing of a static set-up or seeing its documentation in real-time video form, but maybe the actual photo shoots had a tableau vivant-like thing for the photographers? If you’re feeling increasingly confident, the class is a great success. When you present the finished story will there be as situation where a more thorough feedback will be possible? Great, man. ** Joey, Hi. I’m good, working and stuff. Great about the raise, congrats! Hi to Jarrod! The email you sent was empty. There was nothing in it. I’m not sure why. Can you resend? Love, me. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Oh, yeah, ‘Remains of the Day’ is very good. I often forget about Ishiguro, but he’s quite a good scribe. Maybe in that novel most of all. The film version is pretty good. Anthony Hopkins’ performance in that film is one of the best examples of conventional acting that there is, I think. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. ‘Head Cage’ is excellent, I agree. I think Pig Destroyer are very under-appreciated. Hope you got to see the second cut. I don’t know if that film will open in the theatres here. I’ll check. French Netflix isn’t like the US one. It’s quite limited. Not really worth joining unless you’re into fairly standard fare. I just signed up for the new upcoming Criterion Channel. I’m excited about that. ** Right. I decided to bring Jean-Paul Belmondo Day back from the dead. I feel like it should be alive. See you tomorrow.