Erotic films: Rated X

The controversial Mitchell brothers took the female crotch further than Larry Flynt at the start of the 70s with their porn classic Behind the Green Door.

 

If you’re interested in the biography of the brothers who started the pornography genre, Rated X is something especially for you.

 

Time of sex

This was a time when America lost its virginity, the time when everyone was having sex. Sex, drugs and sex again. This was a time when porn film were making more money than ordinary ones, the time when porn stars were more famous than Hollywood celebrities and a time to shine for brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell (portrayed by real-life brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez). They were pioneering pornographers who did more for pornography than Larry Flynt. They invented the s in sex. They opened their private porn movie theatre and showed their personal porn films in it, including the classic Behind the Green Door, which propelled the unforgettable Marilyn Chambers (played by Tracy Hutson, the new wife of actor Barry Watson) onto the scene and made them an incredible 40 million dollars.

 

Marilyn Chambers, the leading actress in the movie Behind the Green Door, became a superstar overnight.

 

A porn classic

 

Those of you who know a bit more about pornography have undoubtedly seen Behind the Green Door, directed by, as we have already mentioned, the Mitchell brothers. This porn classic, made in 1972, is actually the first porn movie in history to get regular and powerful cinema distribution. It’s a story about a woman who’s kidnapped and brought into a movie theatre, where she has to have sex with different partners in front of a masked audience. The movie thrilled audiences, also because of the famous ejaculation scene, which lasted an entire seven minutes in slow motion. The Mitchell brothers’ idea more than paid off. The leading actress naturally had to break her contract with some cosmetics company, the name of which she tarnished with this role.

 

Brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell literally took America’s virginity at the start of the seventies.

 

The brothers who took America’s virginity

 

You’re right, the Mitchell brothers had sex with America. They took its virginity, broke the hymen for good and penetrated it anally as well. And the intercourse lasted a long time, all the way until the start of the eighties, when porn films were destroyed by video and when the Mitchell brothers gave us their last big porn movie entitled The G Spot, where Ginger Lynn, Nina Hartley, Annette Heaven, Amber Lynn, John Holmes, Harry Reems and, of course, Traci Lords shone. It was exactly this movie, where the story is concerned with the famous G-spot and the so-called female ejaculation, which marked the eighties because it assembled all the porn stars in one place and tackled a subject not tackled often.

 

Behind the Green Door, a pornography classic, also features a scene with a seven-minute ejaculation.

 

The end of the golden era of pornography

 

Then it was all over. Jim and Artie, who made their money as the owners of the first real porn club, explained that video is a good thing because men will be able to masturbate in their living rooms from now on. But they lost their charm. They lost the orgasm. They exchanged sex for cocaine and the erection for money. That’s what buried them, just like every porn movie where natural breasts are replaced by silicon ones and sperm is replaced by yoghurt. It’s no wonder they had a fight and totally flopped with the sequel to their first porn movie Behind the Green Door. The audience turned its back on the movie despite the interesting addition of all the actors having sex with condoms and other preservatives. It showed that the Mitchell brothers were feuding. The story ended in 1991 when Jim actually shot Artie. After serving three years in prison, he, naturally, couldn’t return to the porn scene and he had a heart attack on his ranch last year. Anyway, Rated X, a tribute to the brothers who started the pornography genre, is definitely an interesting movie. It’s a bit superficial, not of high enough quality, but it’s still a lively enough biography of a time that’s gone, a time destroyed by women who are too artificial and a time when even Charlie Sheen exchanged his porn star girlfriend Ginger Lynn for a normal one.  

 

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