{"id":9824,"date":"2009-10-03T12:33:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=9824"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:13:55","slug":"certain-sacrifice-a-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=9824","title":{"rendered":"Certain Sacrifice, A (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Do you think for once that any lover of mine could be tame?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster-207x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-66544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster-706x1024.png 706w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster-88x128.png 88w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster-186x270.png 186w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Poster.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen his new girlfriend (Madonna) is raped by a sleazy stranger (Charles Kurtz), a former college student (Jeremy Pattnosh) and his friends seek revenge.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rape<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary is far too generous in his review of this infamous student film, which he argues is &#8220;not the best but certainly not worthless&#8221;, and has some &#8220;bright ideas and wit floating around&#8221;. Made in 1979 (when Madonna was just 20 years old), it was strategically released by director Stephen Jon Lewicki as a quick money-maker six years later, when her fame was beginning to skyrocket. Apparently Madonna insisted on being paid $100 for her work in the film, resulting in a signed contract which later prevented her from legally removing the movie from circulation &#8212; but there&#8217;s not much here for her to be especially ashamed of, other than some tame nudity and her typically amateurish performance in a crude independent film. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4-1024x781.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4-1024x781.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4-354x270.png 354w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Certain-Sacrifice-Madonna4.png 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many have noted, she made so many awful films later in her career that this one doesn&#8217;t stand out as particularly egregious &#8212; it simply has the lowest production values and makes the least sense. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it&#8217;s often difficult to tell exactly what&#8217;s happening in this pretentious and unbearably artsy movie, which focuses on a college drop-out (Jeremy Pattnosh) who roams the streets of New York and falls for a young girl (Madonna) who&#8217;s secretly involved with a &#8220;family of lovers&#8221;. Meanwhile, Pattnosh encounters a boorish pig (Charles Kurtz, who Peary argues &#8220;steals the film&#8221; in his role &#8212; not much of a stretch) at a coffee shop, then later rapes Madonna simply because she&#8217;s Pattnosh&#8217;s girl. A final orgy revenge scene caps everything off. The soundtrack, unfortunately, is by Pattnosh rather than Madonna herself. Ultimately, <em>A Certain Sacrifice<\/em> is the type of movie that was probably must-see during its moment of notoriety (as Peary notes, &#8220;initial reports claimed it was an S&#038;M porno film&#8221;), but is now required viewing simply for those who are morbidly curious or genuinely hung up on Madonna. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><br \/>\nNot much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; unless you can&#8217;t contain your curiosity, feel free to skip this one-hour clunker.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088896\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3169&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you think for once that any lover of mine could be tame?&#8221; Synopsis: When his new girlfriend (Madonna) is raped by a sleazy stranger (Charles Kurtz), a former college student (Jeremy Pattnosh) and his friends seek revenge. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Rape Revenge Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary is far too generous in his review of this infamous student film, which he argues is &#8220;not the best but certainly not worthless&#8221;, and has some &#8220;bright ideas and wit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=9824\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66546,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions\/66546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}