American gigolo. USA, 1980.
Director and Screenwriter: Paul Schrader Cast
: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton
Topics of interest: prostitution
Synopsis: Julian
is a stylish and sophisticated gigolo offers its services to wealthy women, his life becomes complicated when you are involved in a murder and can not prove his innocence: his alibi is one of her clients and she is not interested in declaring who was with him.
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Sister loss and vulnerable people usually have engaged in prostitution, American gigolo is an exception for two reasons: emphasis on paid sex class talking about a man who prostitutes rather than women. As with abortion, prostitution is also a hugely controversial subject matter of disputes between supporters of the ban and those of their regularization. Feminist and conservative groups motivated by religious reasons agree that prostitution can not be considered a decent job but it is a form of sexual slavery of women and a violation paid; needed to sustain this argument ignore the fact that there is a number not as despicable as it is said of men who engage in prostitution (even more if we include in it to transvestites and transsexuals), that, though male prostitution is often directed gay men are also women clients of prostitution, and finally that, although the majority of prostitutes are women actually semiesclavizadas by gangs or drug addiction engaged in this activity under conditions close to those of the White Slave Traffic the past, there also, even as a minority, a luxury prostitution conducted voluntarily by women and men that could be spent on another job but are tempted by easy money and opportunities to move in this way in a world of glitz and influential people, enjoying a level of life that would be banned in a conventional job.
Paul Schrader, director and screenwriter,
choose to focus on the latter because he was not interested in talking about social issues surrounding prostitution, but, as always in his films, the drama of a particular drifting character trying to escape a vicious cycle of materialism and lack of moral values. Raised in a strict Puritan and Calvinist environment, Schrader shows American gigolo , like all his other films, a morbid and unhealthy fascination with sin. Julian, the gigolo, living a hedonistic life that revolves around the cult of the body, wear the right clothes and visit the restaurants and trendiest clubs, sees nothing demeaning in his profession and is proud of its status as sex objects of women mature: prefer older women. What sense does and lead to teenage orgasm? A teenager who gets horny watching a movie and go running home to masturbate. Anyone can do it.
While other titles in the evolution Schrader the character is inside, this is a Hollywood commercial production, so that the conflict is externalized through a criminal plot involving Julian going and makes you feel uncomfortable in his frivolous life. The gigolo, which could be a close relative of Marcello Mastroianni's character in La dolce vita will have to go through a via crucis that allows you to redeem and save.
Sister loss and vulnerable people usually have engaged in prostitution, American gigolo is an exception for two reasons: emphasis on paid sex class talking about a man who prostitutes rather than women. As with abortion, prostitution is also a hugely controversial subject matter of disputes between supporters of the ban and those of their regularization. Feminist and conservative groups motivated by religious reasons agree that prostitution can not be considered a decent job but it is a form of sexual slavery of women and a violation paid; needed to sustain this argument ignore the fact that there is a number not as despicable as it is said of men who engage in prostitution (even more if we include in it to transvestites and transsexuals), that, though male prostitution is often directed gay men are also women clients of prostitution, and finally that, although the majority of prostitutes are women actually semiesclavizadas by gangs or drug addiction engaged in this activity under conditions close to those of the White Slave Traffic the past, there also, even as a minority, a luxury prostitution conducted voluntarily by women and men that could be spent on another job but are tempted by easy money and opportunities to move in this way in a world of glitz and influential people, enjoying a level of life that would be banned in a conventional job. Paul Schrader, director and screenwriter,
choose to focus on the latter because he was not interested in talking about social issues surrounding prostitution, but, as always in his films, the drama of a particular drifting character trying to escape a vicious cycle of materialism and lack of moral values. Raised in a strict Puritan and Calvinist environment, Schrader shows American gigolo , like all his other films, a morbid and unhealthy fascination with sin. Julian, the gigolo, living a hedonistic life that revolves around the cult of the body, wear the right clothes and visit the restaurants and trendiest clubs, sees nothing demeaning in his profession and is proud of its status as sex objects of women mature: prefer older women. What sense does and lead to teenage orgasm? A teenager who gets horny watching a movie and go running home to masturbate. Anyone can do it. 
While other titles in the evolution Schrader the character is inside, this is a Hollywood commercial production, so that the conflict is externalized through a criminal plot involving Julian going and makes you feel uncomfortable in his frivolous life. The gigolo, which could be a close relative of Marcello Mastroianni's character in La dolce vita will have to go through a via crucis that allows you to redeem and save. Top Scenes: Julian
- exercise in your room while you learn Swedish to receive a their clients. Here is dressed in a designer suit, the gigolos life of luxury has been well defined.
- is a Jerry Bruckheimer production , one of the most successful executives have given to American industry over the last thirty years. including Flashdance, Top Gun or Pirates.
- Before Richard Gere, other names were considered for the lead role as Christopher Reeve and John Travolta . Travolta backtracked at the last moment because it required have control over the final cut, not an actor should be easy since Roman Polanski also had problems with it in another project.
- The box office success was considerable, $ 23 million of revenue in the United States, against a production cost of less than 5.
- The main theme of the soundtrack, Call me, was a major bestseller, the largest in new wave group Blondie U.S.. He was also nominated for Golden Globe for best song, was the only recognition made by the film, apart from another nomination for best soundtrack for Giorgio Moroder , one of the kings of techno-pop and a regular contributor as both Schrader Bruckheimer.
Paul Schrader was born in a small town in the state of Michigan in 1946. Bring up 
or religious community in a strict Calvinist, he was not allowed to attend the theater until he left home to study at university, where he abandoned his previous vocation as a priest and became a film lover and activist of the left side which caused him conflict with their beliefs reflected in almost all his films. He likes to wallow in a manner as bitter as unhealthily morbid in sin, degradation and subsequent redemption in his films, both as a screenwriter (Taxi Driver being his most famous screenplay), and when it is also a director ( Hardcore, Light Sleeper, Affliction ) . The sex is dealt with in his films as something corrupt, a part of the degenerative process that his characters suffer.
or religious community in a strict Calvinist, he was not allowed to attend the theater until he left home to study at university, where he abandoned his previous vocation as a priest and became a film lover and activist of the left side which caused him conflict with their beliefs reflected in almost all his films. He likes to wallow in a manner as bitter as unhealthily morbid in sin, degradation and subsequent redemption in his films, both as a screenwriter (Taxi Driver being his most famous screenplay), and when it is also a director ( Hardcore, Light Sleeper, Affliction ) . The sex is dealt with in his films as something corrupt, a part of the degenerative process that his characters suffer. 
