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I don't remember it like this, can someone confirm or disconfirm?

posted 12 years ago by CarpeDiemFilm
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I'm suffering a concussion so grant me a little slack.

I've read On the Road, I don't remember the sex with Stewart's character to be that profuse. A key scene, that is in reference to what I'm talking about, I don't remember at all and feel like I WOULD HAVE is when seemingly Kristen Stewart's character jerks off both Dean and Jack/Sal while driving along the road.
Was this in the book? Were this much sex-scenes described graphically in the book? Appreciate a response.

By the way, to those who don't know or haven't seen Y tu Mama Tambien is miles ahead of this and I don't know about those who have seen it but it felt heavily like this was I'll leave it at 'similar' to Y tu Mama. I know it's an adaption but still.

As a note of background: I didn't really care for the book that much. I admired the approach but the execution didn't hold my attention. Still liked the culture it offered.

If Sandra Bullock can win an Oscar for 'The Blind Side' then ... ANYTHING ... is possible!

[–] ellandroad_allstars 12 years ago

The film is based on Jack Kerouac's original manuscript of the novel before it was altered for censorship. I haven't read that version but apparently it has more graphic sex scenes, including the homosexual scenes, drug taking and so on

[–] sybarite_2003 12 years ago

Hey! The jerk off scene is not in the originally published version of the book --it was edited out for obscenity like the direct gay sex scenes too -- but if you read On the Road- The Original Scroll version -- which was what Kerouac originally wrote and which has been published a few years back -- and which the film is based on -- you'll see the film is very close to the book.