March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

The Opening Of "The Opening Of Misty Beethoven"

The Opening Of "The Opening Of Misty Beethoven"Taking a trip down porn memory lane to watch the opening credits of groundbreaking 1970s epic “The Opening Of Misty Beethoven” can help teach us why it was so groundbreaking in the first place. For starters, it actually has opening credits, which was a lot rarer than you might imagine for porn flicks in 1975. It may also be one of the first instances of the popular “straight-buttoned man strolling through the red light district” montage: this announces to the audience that they are about to enter a gritty, grimy underworld of carnal pleasures. Finally, the young man writhing in ecstasy under the names of the art director and his assistant pretty much defines the term “porn mustache.” If all that doesn’t make the viewer want to stick around and see what happens next, we don’t know what would.

· “The Opening of Misty Beethoven (Intro)” (youporn.com)

· See also: “The Opening of Misty Beethoven” (Wikipedia)

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  • Jay-C

    What’s with the guy bringing a french bread into the porn theater? Isn’t that the last place you’d want to bring food into?

  • CloudCarrier

    @Jay-C: It was the 70′s, and there were no Fleshlights.

    This really is my favorite porno of all time (sorry Pirate Eon!) because it’s both highly explicit and well crafted, and Constance Money is actually believable in it. Even the music is good (well, not in the opening, but that’s supposed to be someone else’s movie!), with a Greek chorus of Bach-flavored voices staying as angelic as possible, even as a strap-on is whipped out later on. I miss the seediness of those public places sometimes, but then I remember that it’s all been translated to the internet, and their fliers now get stuck in my cookie history rather than on the streets.

  • Anonymous

    @CloudCarrier: :-o
    people fuck(ed) bread loaves?

    anyway, I love a mustache as much as the next southern lady, but god damn! that man’s ‘stache is ridonk.

    I also think that I would totally do dirty stuff in a porn theater. I’m such a slut.

  • Anonymous

    The greatest porn film ever made (and it really was a “film”) and there really hasn’t been anything that even compares to it since then. Jamie Gillis was the greatest porn actor ever and he just totally takes this movie to a whole nother level. He was the Cary Grant of porn. Radley Metzger (Henry paris) paid attention to every detail…art direction, writing, comic timing, locations, costume design, you name it. Put it all together and this is one classy porno.