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1!!The book and film series:
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The original film trilogy had classic soundtracks by the likes of Pierre Bachelet, Francis Lai, and Music/SergeGainsbourg.
3* DarkerAndEdgier: The Creator/JoeDAmato directed knock-off ''Emanuelle in America'' which features explicit bestiality and violent snuff movie themes.
4* FairForItsDay: The old films have not aged well and are subject to a lot of ValuesDissonance, but they were some of the first major motion pictures to feature a woman who was more or less firmly in control of her sexuality.
5* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned below, the first film's soundtrack included a track that was a blatant rip-off of a Music/SergeGainsbourg. Gainsbourg himself would end up composing the music for the third film, ''Goodbye Emmanuelle''.
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7* QuirkyWork: The Guido Crepax adaptation often veers into this territory due to his surrealist visuals. Special mention goes to his depiction of Emmanuelle's rape at the hands of Arianne, which cuts away to a scene where a gazelle is run down by a cheetah.
8** Another very strange moment for the character is showing up as the girlfriend of the exorcist in the bizarre [[BruceLeeClone Bruceploitation]] movie ''The Dragon Lives Again''. Yes, [[Film/TheExorcist that exorcist.]]
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10* {{Sequelitis}}: The film series has a ''bad'' case of this, with dozens of loosely-connected sequels and a whole separate franchise of knock-offs.
11* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The original film's soundtrack features some blatant knock-offs, like "Rape Sequence" (which is basically a shorter, jazzier version of Music/KingCrimson's "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 2") and "Cigarette Act" (which is essentially an instrumental version of Gainsbourg's "Je t'aime... moi non plus".)
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