Maidstone (film)

Maidstone is a 1970 American independent drama film written, produced, and directed by Norman Mailer.

Famous film director Norman Kingsley Norman Mailer runs for President while working on his latest film project. His brother Raoul Rip Torn continues to cling to him for his money.Norman T. Kingsley is a filmmaker who is known as the American Bunuel, and he is working on a sexually provocative drama about a brothel with both female and male employees. Throughout this documentary,which is broken down into twelve chapters, Kingsley has his friends, actors, wannabe actresses, and other colleagues join him on his estate in Upstate New York to audition for and work on his sexual drama. The different chapters in Maidstone are filmed in documentary form, The movie depicts Kingsleys everyday lifestyle as an actor and filmmaker. Kingsley chooses the cast for his film which is made of several different men and women. Kingsley refers to himself as a narcissist. Several nice looking women are shown auditioning for a role in Kingsleys film, and Kingsley is shown criticizing them heavily. He places himself within the film to show the women actresses what he is looking for in his film. Kingsley is very realistic and convincing in his own acting. In addition to directing his film, he is also campaigning to become the president and, in doing so, he attracts journalists, scholars, and some African American radicals who question him about his campaign. Some of the attention that he draws leads to a group of people, known as PAX,C, discussing the need to have Kingsley assassinated. One scene in Maidstone also shows a boxing style fight scene between Norman Mailer and CoStar Rip Torn. The fight scene contributed to the legacy of Maidstone See Legacy. Below is a general breakdown of what takes place in each chapter of Maidstone. Mailer decided to break the film into twelve chapters. Besides number 12, Silences of an Afternoon, all of the chapters refer directly to the context of the plot. Chapter details are included in the chapter summaries below. ........

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