1985: Fear Sex. Jagged Edge & AIDS (Erotic 80s Part 8)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that epidemic, a film was released that transposed the new climate of sexual fear into a murder mystery. The sleeper hit of 1985, Jagged Edge turned Glenn Close from a respected actress into a star, and established the brand of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who would later write Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Almost a decade after radical feminists began to call for a crackdown on violent sexual imagery, Jagged Edge tried to have its cake and eat it, too: infusing its sex and violence – and its depiction of a career woman – with a fundamentally conservative point of view.

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1:45.0	And this is part eight of our ongoing series, A Rotic 80s.
1:54.0	I'm getting a little fed up at sex with the emancipated ladies being referred to as brawls
2:00.0	and that doing this because somebody's making me do it.
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