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| 3 | Kenneth Anger (February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023) was an American filmmaker, well-known for his ties to Creator/AleisterCrowley, the homoerotic subtext of his work, and his dabbling in the occult and black magic. A pioneer of the {{Music Video}} as well as the {{Dream Sequence}}. Also famous, or infamous depending on who you ask, as the writer of the BasedOnAGreatBigLie Hollywood gossip book ''Hollywood Babylon''. Anger occasionally promised/threatened to release a second sequel to ''Hollywood Babylon'' (''Hollywood Babylon II'' exists but is generally [[ContestedSequel ill-regarded]]) but claimed that he held off on the project because he was afraid that the book (which he claimed contains lurid details about Creator/TomCruise's private life) would mark him as a target for Scientology. |
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| 6 | !!Partial Filmography: |
| 7 | * ''[[https://youtu.be/MLDQ59wbQuY Fireworks]]'' (1947) |
| 8 | * ''[[https://youtu.be/bw31ZAhHkaQ Puce Moment]]'' (1949) (Originally imagined to be part of a full-length feature called ''Puce Women'') |
| 9 | * ''[[https://youtu.be/NPN5O4KZCO8 Rabbit's Moon]]'' (1971) |
| 10 | * ''Film/EauxDArtifice'' (1953) |
| 11 | * ''[[https://youtu.be/IgnRr170ERM Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome]]'' (1954) |
| 12 | * ''Film/ScorpioRising'' (1963) |
| 13 | * ''[[https://youtu.be/JyWkcB-K9TI Invocation of My Demon Brother]]'' (1969) (Featuring [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger]] and Anton [=LaVey=]) |
| 14 | * ''[[https://youtu.be/UQidfcNPSh8 Lucifer Rising]]'' (1972) |
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| 17 | !!Common tropes appearing in Anger's works include: |
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| 19 | * AuthorAppeal: Anger was gay and his films include a lot of muscular, half-naked men. Also, larger doses of the occult. |
| 20 | * BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Anger's 1975 book ''Hollywood Babylon'' was billed as an exposé of all the hidden scandals in the movie business. In fact, almost the entire book was made up, but some of the fake stories therein -- like how Creator/ClaraBow supposedly gangbanged the entire USC football team, or how Creator/JayneMansfield was decapitated in her fatal car accident -- have become durable {{urban legend}}s. |
| 21 | * HorribleHollywood: ''Hollywood Babylon'' |
| 22 | * NothingButHits: The soundtrack for ''Scorpio Rising'' consists of rock n' roll hits of the fifties and sixties. |
| 23 | * UsefulNotes/{{Satanism}}: Friend of Creator/AleisterCrowley and Anton [=LaVey=]. |
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