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Evidently, the actress in "Last Tango in Paris" felt victimized because the director had improvised the sex scene into anal rape - and a movie critic made a little joke about it when commenting about the recent death of the director:
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/...vid-edelstein-following-rape-joke-1203038218/

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/...vid-edelstein-following-rape-joke-1203038218/
NPR’s “Fresh Air” program has ended its association with David Edelstein following the film critic’s controversial joke about the “Last Tango in Paris” rape scene in the wake of director Bernardo Bertolucci’s death.
In a Facebook post, Edelstein posted an image of the rape scene with the caption, “Even grief is better with butter,” referencing Marlon Brando’s character use of butter as a lubricant. Many, including actress Martha Plimpton, demanded that Edelstein be fired.
“All day I’ve avoided noting [Bertolucci’s] death precisely because of this moment in which a sexual assault of an actress was intentionally captured on film. And this a–hole makes it into this joke,” Plimpton wrote.
my opinion: First they went for the partners of the women who felt badly after sex, but I didn't speak out because a woman had never done this to me. Next they went after the movie director who wanted the actress to be in a simulated sex scene, but I didn't speak out because I am not a director. Next, they went after the movie critic, but I didn't speak out because I am not a movie critic ...“Fresh Air,” which is produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, issued a statement on Tuesday, saying the post was “offensive and unacceptable,” particularly given actress Maria Schneider’s claim that she wasn’t told about the simulated sex scene beforehand and it caused her to “cry real tears.” Schneider died in 2011 at age 58.
