Hollywood has a thing for tragic stories, right? They are quite as obsessed for tragic stories as they are of ending it with a happy ending. Well, consider this story: A conservative teenager, who all of a sudden rebels against her elders, meets and marries a "pimp", who forces her against her will towards "prostitution" and drugs, and at 23 years old, becomes an overnight sensation due to a hard core porn movie that was made in a cheap hotel room in Florida. The movie as a total worth of $600 million. However, she leaves (or flees) her manipulated husband, becomes a feminist advocate, but later faces personal battles with illness and poverty, all before dying in a terrible car crash in 2002. Sounds indeed like a tragic story, and thats not all what Linda Lovelace, who's life I just described, faced. However, her life is about to be immoratalized on the big screen, twice, and hopefully it sticks with her life instead of finsihing it with a typical happy ending.
Linda endured both physical and mental abuse under her husband's, Chuck Traynor, power. Even when her porn movie "Deep Throat" hit the mainstream, she described in graphic detail what she went through in the set [1]. Yet, she became a popular personality during her days, with her film making over 10x of what it was worth (it cost $30,000 to make). However, this film is credited to ushering "...the infinitely more explicit internet porn that is now only a keyboard click away" today [1]. But this is the view and reputation that Linda Lovelace hated. She became a feminist activist, denouncing the porn industry, right after she left her controlling husband. Yet, she felt used by her feminist "allies". She remarried again, had two children, but only for her second husband to lose his job and both became dependent on welfare. She also became dependent on expensive medical drugs after a liver transplant in 1987. Then after divorcing in 1996, she had jobs both day and night to make it through. A few years later, in 2001, she posed for an adult magazine, and with cries that she was a hypocrite, after she publicly known for bashing out the porn industry, sources say she was desperate for cash. She died in 2002 after crashing in a concrete post in Denver, as she was thrown out the windscreen.
Now, a few years later, 2 movies are in the works for this lady. One, starting Amanda Seyfried, titled "Lovelace", has just finished filming. This project is also being backed up by Lovelace's grown children. The second, titled "Inferno" is based on Lovelace tell all book. If both films are trying to be 100% accurate about her life, then let it be. But as friend and former biographer Eric Danville (whos is speaking regards of the "Lovelace" film) said:
"The film will try as much as possible to end on a positive note in terms of Linda’s story,’ he
said. How does the film portray her? ‘I have to be diplomatic here ... very much as she saw herself...A victim — for want of a better word. That’s the tale that everyone really knows." [1]
Well, I hope for once Hollywood keeps it real. Linda Lovelace story has all the elements worthy of a Hollywood movie.
Read more at Daily Mail here.
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