Deep Throat is a seminal work—in every sense of the word. Meeting the first definition, “highly influential in an original way,” the 1972 feature film had a seminal impact on the sexual revolution of the 1970s, sparking it’s ‘porno chic’ wing, important Free Speech court cases, Watergate informant code, feminist polemics, various ongoing scandals, and motivating millions of otherwise savvy women to check their tonsils for a clitoris.
As to the second definition of seminal, “of, relating to, conveying or denoting semen,” well, Deep Throat is all about blowjobs. At least, it’s mainly about blowjobs. Unlike most blowjob flicks before and since, this one is a full-length feature with a fairly coherent story, intentional comedy, fleshed out characters, decent acting and even a script. And then there are the loads of thick creamy semen shooting all over ecstatic female faces, and did I mention blowjobs? Yes, it’s quite seminal in every sense.
Going back to the first definition, Deep Throat—made on a mob-financed shoestring of under $25,000 and going on to gross upwards of $600 million—is currently experiencing a sort of renaissance around its 40th anniversary, with various new movies being released, including Lovelace starring Amanda Seyfried, (which opened the Sundance Film Festival to mixed reviews) and the upcoming Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, both based on Deep Throat’s notoriously abused and confused female star who became the most famous porn performer of all time, though this was her only feature film. Several other TV movies (including one in which I participated that aired on E!) have tried to tell the Deep Throat story, mostly centering on Lovelace’s conflicting accounts of her experiences at that time.
But what about the film’s other star? After all, with any deep throater cums a deep throatee, and in this case, that would be the flamboyantly mustachioed and indefatigably hard Harry Reems. Perhaps the most exciting, amusing and culturally meaningful offering in the current crop of Deep Throat docudramas and spin-offs is not another film, but a wonderful theatrical play by Dave Bertolino, The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, now in performance at the Zephyr Theater in West Hollywood (purchase tickets here). Ingeniously, Deep Throat the play has Reems, not Lovelace, tell its story.
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