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Actors: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Peter Faber
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Katie Tippel |
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Katie Tippel (Keetje Tippel) is a dutch movie directed by Paul Verhoeven in 1975. Cinematography by Jan De Bont.
Late XXth century. Katie arrives from the country with her family in Amsterdam. They are very poor and Katie must accept disqualifying jobs to make some money to feed her brothers and sisters. After having been raped by her last employer, she's finally been pushed by her own mother into the world of prostitution. Soon, she meets Rutger Hauer, a bank clerk, who introduces Katie in the circles of the dutch bourgeoisie. But Katie, still aware from where she comes from, feels sympathy for the new progressist movements that are emerging in Europe. Based on a true story, recommended.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Katie Tippel |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- rape
- sex with client/patient
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prostitute
Poverty story?
Yes
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Unclothed?
- Full Frontal
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 40%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
Europe
Yes
Water?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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