Line #34 Creator/RussMeyer


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2	[[caption-width-right:220:''"I always had a tremendous interest in big tits."'']]
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5	->''"He's this guy who made these awful movies during TheSeventies featuring these kinds of women. He's obsessed. He's obsessed with breasts. That's hard to say."''
6	-->-- '''[[Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus Elaine Benes]]''', ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E23ThePilot The Pilot (Part 1)]]"
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8	Russ Meyer (March 21, 1922 -- September 18, 2004) was an American director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer from UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}}, UsefulNotes/{{California}} best known as a pioneer of sexploitation films during TheSixties and [[TheSeventies '70s]].
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11	!! Selected Filmography (collectively known as Meyers' ''Bosomania Collection''):
12	* ''The Immoral Mr. Teas'' (1959)
13	* ''Mudhoney'' (1965)
14	* ''Film/FasterPussycatKillKill'' (1965)
15	* ''Film/{{Vixen\|1968}}!'' (1968)
16	* ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' (1970)
17	* ''Film/TheSevenMinutes'' (1971)
18	* ''Film/{{Supervixens}}'' (1975)
19	* ''Film/{{Up\|1976}}'' (1976)
20	* ''Film/BeneathTheValleyOfTheUltraVixens'' (1979)
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22	!! "I always had a tremendous interest in big tropes":
23	* AscendedExtra: He was on the camera crew for the 1957 {{Documentary}} ''The Creator/JamesDean Story''.
24	* AuthorAppeal: Buxom women, violence, weak-willed men
25	* [[{{Biography}} Autobiography]]: ''A Clean Breast''
26	* CharacterTitle: 1964's ''Lorna'', 1968's ''Vixen!'', 1969's ''Cherry, Harry & Raquel!''
27	* EverytownAmerica: ''Beneath The Valley of the Ultra-Vixens'' was set in "[=Smalltown=] USA".
28	* ExploitationFilm: His stock in trade.
29	* InsistentTerminology: He called Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox inviting him to make ''Beyond The Valley of the Dolls'' "going up the mountain."
30	* LanternJawOfJustice: The profile of him in the book ''Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics'' included "Men with square jaws" as something usually found in his movies.
31	** Creator/CharlesNapier in ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' and ''Supervixens''.
32	* [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Director]]: Creator/JohnWaters cited him as a major influence.
33	* MsFanservice: He had an eye for sexy women and filled his movies with them.
34	* ReturningWarVet: He served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII as a combat photographer.
35	* TakeThat: His service led him to hate Nazis, which is why he [[AdolfHitlarious used them as objects of ridicule in his films]].
36	* TropeCodifier: Meyers is credited with being the inventor of the "Nudie Cutie" with ''The Immoral Mr. Teas''.[[note]]"Nudie cuties" evolved from "nudist colony" films. Since filmmakers had to bring their own nudists for those films, filmmakers ditched the documentary aspect and setting of nudist colonies and just went straight to asexual, MaleGaze nudity.[[/note]]
37	* UndyingLoyalty: Was this to numerous wartime comrades, screenwriters, and actors over the years. Creator/RogerEbert described a crowded dinner where Meyer's former ensign asked who he was. "Russ said 'That's Ebert.' There was no follow-up question."
38	* WorldOfBuxom: The women in his movies are never flat-chested -- there's a reason his oeuvre has gone under the moniker ''Bosomania Collection''.

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