{"id":11035,"date":"2015-03-21T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T07:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2015-03-22T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:31:26","slug":"birthday-post-russ-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/03\/21\/birthday-post-russ-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Post: Russ Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RussOn this day in 1922, the great filmmaker Russ Meyer<\/a> was born. As a first approximation, you wouldn’t think of me as a Russ Meyer fan. But as I said about David Cronenberg<\/a>: his obsessions are not mine. But that doesn’t much matter. It seems to be far more important that artists have<\/em> obsessions than that I share them. Meyers was very interested in sex with particular attention to beautiful women with very large breasts. But he is much more than that. Meyer was probably the first filmmaker who taught me that a great deal could be done with the simplest ingredients.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is that more clear than in one of my two favorite Meyer films, Eve and the Handyman<\/a><\/i>. There is basically nothing to the film. Eve, played by Meyer’s wife and collaborator Eve Meyer, is some kind of private eye — or just a stalker — who is tailing the handyman, played by Anthony-James Ryan. So the film is alternating between Eve being very sexy and her watching Ryan do janitorial and handyman work. It was also shot MOS with only voice-over from beginning to end. But it is filled with constantly interesting shots, genuinely funny bits, and nonstop sexiness — completely without showing any of the naughty bits. Here is a good example of everything that I just said in two minutes:<\/p>\n