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Polanski a silent partner?

posted 18 years ago by luke1968
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This became my favorite cult film when some fellow med students and i rented it (on beta!) back in 1988 and watched it repeatedly when procrastinating our studies. I heard/read somewhere that Polanski was a silent partner in the directing. He makes a cameo in the Trattoria scene.
For some reasone Joe screwing the sisters has remained for me one of the most titillating sex scenes in any movie i have seen!
The quintessential cult classic!
"If you really were clever Anton, you would bring me the wirgins and I would not have to go on this terrible journey"

[–] juan-93 16 years ago

I've always loved Polanski's films especially The Fearless Vampire Killers, it only seemed to make sense that he would be involved with one of my other favorite offbeat classic vampire films, the scene with Polanski is great! I wonder how much behind the scenes input he had?

[–] Fedorevsky 16 years ago

None, Polanski just came over and did his scene since he was shooting his film What? in the studio next to the Blood for Dracula production in Italy.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities.Virtues can be faked.Depravities are real.Kinski

[–] freudified_n_funkified 16 years ago

Everybody seems to want to dick Paul Morrissey out of his credit, as if this movie is beyond his capabilities as a director. First everyone thinks it's Andy Warhol behind his work, then Antonio Margheriti (and/or his fans) tries to hog credit on this and Flesh for Frankenstein, and now apparently Roman Polanski unofficially helmed Blood for Dracula, which has very little, stylisitcally, in common with Polanski's ouput of the same period. Polanski contributed the scene he was in, recycled it himself in his great Bitter Moon, and that was it.