Wednesday, November 24, 2010

'The Pillow Book'

Is there a top 25 actor in Hollywood today that we've seen more of his penis than Ewan McGregor?

In his early films, you couldn't keep McGregor's picker out from in front of the camera. Do you watch Star Wars or The Ghost Writer and see McGregor and think, "I've seen his penis; multiple times." You can't say that about George Clooney or Brad Pitt.

The Pillow Book, frankly, is kind of a brain screw. Based on the Japanese tradition of keeping a "pillow book," a sort of journal. The narrator and main character connects sexual pleasure with her earliest memories of her father's calligraphy painted on her body on her birthday.

From that time onward, she tries to find a man that can fulfill this Electra-like sexual need by allowing guys to write on her to the point that she starts writing a novel on her lovers.

McGregor becomes one of her favorites. He's also a homosexual favorite with the publisher. Naturally, we see McGregor's penis quite a bit. We thought Trainspotting was his edgiest film? No way.

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