Linda Lovelace on the big screen again

I found the story of Linda Lovelace's life before and after "Deep Throat" to be very interesting--and apparently so did American film makers when introducing the movie "Lovelace" in 2013. Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman directed the biopic about Linda Lovelace's life before and after her debut in "Deep Throat"--Epstein and Friedman also directed "The Times of Harvey Milk", which I found particularly interesting and ironic, since we viewed "Inside Deep Throat" (about Lovelace) and we will now be viewing "The Times of Harvey Milk", werid. Anyways, the film was shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival and achieved an 83% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; 97% recommend seeing the film. I'm intrigued! I also found it interesting and ironic that Lindsay Lohan was originally cast to play Linda Lovelace in another biopic of her life titled "Inferno. Lohan and Lovelace have relentless, negative attention in the spotlight in common. From the description of "Lovelace" the story doesn't much differ from any other mainstream speculation about the 70's adult film star's relationship with the porn industry--she is portrayed as a victim at the hands of her first husband, Chuck Traynor, forced into performing sexual acts that had her thrust into the American spotlight with a negative connotation. This is the story Lovelace stuck with when joining the feminist party, doing television and radio interviews, and writing her book; but by the testimony of the film makers in "Inside Deep Throat" she was not victimized or forced into doing anything on the set of "Deep Throat". One of the film makers described her as a "puppet", she always needed someone to tell her what to do and how to think--whether that was her first husband or the feminists, she always had someone behind her regulating her behaviors and thoughts. Of course you couldn't expect them to admit to any foul play on the set of their already controversial film, especially after they saw Reems under fire. The true story of Linda Lovelace may never be known, but I find it interesting that in 2013 they are still trying to figure it out.



Above is a photo of Lindsay Lohan posing as Linda Lovelace on the cover of "Inferno", courtesy of the Huffington Post.



This photo is of Amanda Seyfried posing as Linda Lovelace in this year's new release, "Lovelace. Photo courtesy of imdb.com.