{"id":383,"date":"2024-04-14T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:04:11","slug":"sam-fullers-the-naked-kiss-is-sordid-weird-and-revealing-i-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/sam-fullers-the-naked-kiss-is-sordid-weird-and-revealing-i-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fuller&#8217;s &#8220;The Naked Kiss&#8221; is sordid, weird and revealing. I love it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This was written as the introduction for the Mesilla Valley Film Society&#8217;s screening of <strong>The Naked Kiss<\/strong> in April, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s an American filmmaker whose work I admire more than Sam Fuller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A high school dropout who became a journalist, then a screenwriter, then a soldier in World War II before directing his first film, <em>I Shot Jesse James<\/em> in 1949. That movie was a revisionist western before those were even a thing, the story of John Ireland\u2019s Bob Ford grappling with his titular legacy. From there, Fuller quickly became a b-movie staple, cranking out war pictures and period pieces before the critical and box office success of the <em>noir<\/em> classic <em>Pickup on South Street<\/em> gave him a chance to direct some headliners at Fox like the submarine flick <em>Hell and High Water<\/em> and the western <em>Forty Guns<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FMr7RsXx4pvCNmzkdJ2C5iyMh7eJkI_original-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Sam Fuller (probably from the 70s)\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FMr7RsXx4pvCNmzkdJ2C5iyMh7eJkI_original-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FMr7RsXx4pvCNmzkdJ2C5iyMh7eJkI_original-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FMr7RsXx4pvCNmzkdJ2C5iyMh7eJkI_original-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FMr7RsXx4pvCNmzkdJ2C5iyMh7eJkI_original.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Director Sam Fuller<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 1959, though, he started losing some of his luster, with <em>The Crimson Kimono<\/em> leaving audiences and critics both a bit cool and <em>Verboten!<\/em> underperforming despite raves.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"000000000000029e0000000000000000_383\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-000000000000029e0000000000000000_383-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-000000000000029e0000000000000000_383-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"><em>The Crimson Kimono<\/em>, by the way, is one of my favorite films by him. A procedural that treats its parallel plot of interracial romance with a frankness Hollywood still rarely manages, a full half century later.<\/span> Crime flick <em>Underworld U.S.A. <\/em>saw him butting heads with producers at Columbia and 1962\u2019s <em>Merrill\u2019s Marauders<\/em> was his final big studio picture for almost a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others would be daunted by this turn of events, but for Fuller, the need to create was stronger than the need for recognition. He went back to his b-picture roots with 1963\u2019s <em>Shock Corridor <\/em>\u2014 a psychological thriller about a journalist who goes undercover in a mental institution \u2014 and made what I consider to be his most visceral, gutsy movie with tonight\u2019s selection, <em>The Naked Kiss<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_-662x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_-993x1536.jpg 993w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_-1324x2048.jpg 1324w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MV5BZDg2ODU0YTQtNjIwNC00MjcyLWE4NjQtY2MwYTFiMjBmNmZmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMDUzNTI3._V1_.jpg 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Naked Kiss<\/em>, Constance Towers plays Kelly, an itinerant prostitute who uses the guise of a champagne seller to meet and engage with her clientele. When she arrives in Grantville, though, she does her usual bit and meets with the local constabulary to smooth things out. However, Captain Griff<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"000000000000029e0000000000000000_383\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-000000000000029e0000000000000000_383-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-000000000000029e0000000000000000_383-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">No first name given, nor last, just he\u2019s just Griff. Griff is a recurring name in Fuller&#8217;s filmography, a tribute to a man he served with in WWII. It&#8217;s also the name we gave one of our dogs.<\/span> makes it clear after their liaison; her services are not welcome in his town. She can ply her trade over the river, at Candy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a head full of champagne, Kelly wakes up the next morning and has a realization: she wants more from life. And she works hard and gets it\u2026or so she thinks. Despite offering up what appears to be the idyllic American town (especially if you\u2019re a white person in the 1960s), Grantville\u2019s got a dark secret, one that\u2019s likely to make your stomach turn, even a full sixty years after the film\u2019s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kiss5-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kiss5-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kiss5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kiss5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kiss5.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Griff visiting Candy&#8217;s Sweet Shoppe. It&#8217;s like One Eyed Jacks before One Eyed Jacks!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t tell by the fact that I have a tattoo featuring David Lynch and a quote from the series, I\u2019m a big fan of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>. Like Fuller, Lynch and collaborator Mark Frost engaged with the American Dream and its darker side and there are some plot parallels that a fan of both the movie and the TV series can pick out, but what stands out to me the most is how both <em>The Naked Kiss<\/em> and <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> are steadfastly <em>weird<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a sequence in which Kelly sings along with some kids from the local hospital that\u2019s as sincere as it is surreal. The brothel across the river uses the kid-friendly facade of a sweets shop to allow the women to meet their clients. The prostitute quotes Goethe and Byron with a familiarity that belies her past. With one exception, not a single character has an entire name in the movie. And it works, it all works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuller (with cinematographer Stanley Cortez) is a pretty primitive filmmaker. In fact, outside of the bravura opening and the occasional long-ish take, there\u2019s not much to distinguish the vast majority of his shots from what was on TV at the time. However, there\u2019s a raw energy there, a sense of intent lacking in many of his peers that is undeniable, and it\u2019s easy to see why the French New Wave and people like Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes all fell so hard for the director.&nbsp; I hope you join them tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written as the introduction for the Mesilla Valley Film Society&#8217;s screening of The Naked Kiss in April, 2024. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s an American filmmaker whose work I admire more than Sam Fuller. 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