Kinsey Page #9

Synopsis: Called Prok as an adult (short for Professor Kinsey), Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century, despite the criticisms of such being evil nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father, professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University, initially focusing on the study of gall wasps. But those studies in combination with questions from his students, coming to terms with the needs of sex with his own wife, a former student of his named Clara McMillen (who he calls Mac), and what he sees as the gross misinformation on the subject currently within popular belief makes him change his focus to human sexuality. Many of those gross untruths - as he sees them - are that oral sex and masturbation cause a slew of maladies, which are perpetuated by what is presented in the university's hygiene class taught by Professor Thurman Rice. With the approval of faculty head Herma
Director(s): Bill Condon
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 50 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2004
118 min
$10,214,647
Website
808 Views


Why, the rush ofblood alone would...

Oh! Oh!

Shall we get started?

My grandmother introduced me

to sexual intercourse when I was 10.

My first homosexual act

was, uh, with my father.

Uh, I was 11...

Of the 33 members

of my extended family...

I've had sex with 17 of them.

That's five generations now.

My penis is 8.24 inches long...

with a diameter of 2.8 inches

when fully erect.

In my youth, I averaged eight cubic

centimeters of semen per ejaculation.

By the time I was 50,

I was down to five.

I've had sex with 22

separate species of animals.

I've had intercourse

with 9,412 people.

I've had sexual relations with...

Have you ever seen a boy orgasm?

No.

No, right.

I guess that's why I'm such a catch.

Physiologically, it's almost identical

to an adult orgasm.

Screw this.

I'll see you down at the bar.

I thought you trained them

to be impartial.

Sometimes it's difficult.

Yeah, well,

I suppose someone like me...

really puts your beliefs

to the test, huh?

- How?

- You know.

- Everybody should do what they want.

- I've never said that.

No one should be forced to do

anything against their will.

No one should ever be hurt.

You know, you're a lot more square

than I thought you'd be.

Let's get on with it.

Sure.

Please, Governor.

You're so angry, I can't reason with you.

When you calm down, we'll discuss it.

Seems that the archbishop of Fort Wayne...

tipped off the customs board.

What is it with these people? They're simply

depictions of man in his natural state.

I don't know much

about natural states, Prok...

but here in the state of Indiana

we have a problem.

We'll just have to take

the customs office to court.

And who's gonna pay for that,

the Rockefeller Foundation?

You're an inch away

from losing your grant as it is.

That's not true.

What do you mean?

Hoover is still annoyed

that you won't help him...

find homosexuals

in the State Department.

It is rumored that he is

compiling dossiers... on you...

the activities of your staff.

And, as you well know, there have been

complaints about your statistical methods.

Trumped-up nonsense.

Nothing but disguised prudery.

Prok.

Maybe there were small mistakes

made in the male study...

but we've corrected them

in the female volume.

This will be a very great book,

Herman.

- Much better than the first.

- Let's hope so.

Liberty and license are as far apart...

As liberty and tyranny.

Kinsey

is a deranged Nebuchadnezzar...

leading women out into the fields...

to mingle with the cattle.

"Self-appointed messiah

of the sexually despised.

"Having had his way

with the male of the species...

Kinsey now insecticizes

American womanhood."

Did you get any sleep at all

last night?

How many years do I have to study

human behavior...

before I'm no longer an entomologist?

- Why do you read them, Prok?

- I'm trying to find out why

people hate this book so.

You told them their grandmothers

and their daughters are masturbating...

having premarital sex,

sex with each other.

- What did you expect?

- Some respect!

Don't answer it.

- Hello.

- Say, Kinsey, what kind of sick man are you?

Why do you wanna go around poking your nose...

We're in trouble.

The cost of film stock is astronomical.

Shouldn't our nonprofit status

get us a discount?

Prok, you've got to let some of this go.

We need a full-time accountant.

What in heavens...

Stop this!

Stop it at once! In my office.

Gebhard, get in there.

Everyone, back to work.

Do you have any idea

what a delicate time this is?

Our enemies are watching

everything we do.

We can't afford a single slip-up.

This has nothing to do

with the project.

- Everything is about the project!

- Oh, it's just a...

- a misunderstanding.

- No, it's not.!

You let things get out ofhand

with Martin's wife...

and now she wants to leave him.

Isn't that right, Martin?

And what about you, Gebhard?

Are you planning to leave Agnes and the kids?

- No, of course not.

- Then end it.

- I've tried.

- It's not difficult. Just tell her it's over.

- No explanation necessary.

- All right.

Clyde, I'm...

I'm very sorry about all of this.

I saw this coming.

Gebhard should have

nipped it in the bud.

You are so full of sh*t!

What are we to you, Prok?

We'rejust lab rats?

Is this just another part

of the project...

To prove that sex...

No. No, I'm sorry.

F***ing is...

nothing more than...

than friction and harmless fun?

Well, let me tell you...

that is a risky game,

because f***ing isn't just something.

It's the whole thing.

And if you're not careful...

it will cut you wide open.

Go home to your wife, Clyde.

She's going to need you.

I thought the rules were clear.

No intense romantic entanglements.

They only make people's lives unstable.

I guess we all can't be

as disciplined as you, Prok.

The question of marital infidelity...

The question of marital infidelity...

remains one of the most complicated

issues facing our society today.

Reconciliation

of the married individual's desire...

for a variety of sexual partners...

and the maintenance

of a stable marriage...

presents a problem which has not been

satisfactorily resolved in our culture.

The fact is, America is awash

in sexual activity...

- only a small portion of which

is sanctioned by society.

Sexual morality

needs to be reformed...

and science will show the way.

Sometimes...

I sometimes wonder

what this country would look like if...

the Puritans had stayed at home.

What if all the rogues and libertines...

had crossed the Atlantic instead?

But the enforcers

of chastity are massing once again...

to dissuade the scientist,

intimidate him...

convince him to... cease research.

For heaven's sake!

- If you could get him...

- Yes, Mrs. Kinsey.

Mac.

He's killing himself.

And you have to help me stop him.

- Okay.

- Hmm?

Hi.

Doctors say my heart...

sounds like a cement mixer.

At least they found one.

Seems I've developed

a dependency on barbiturates.

So...

if I've been a bit harsh lately...

- How's Alice?

- She's fine.

We're fine.

You should get some sleep.

It's always been my biggest fear,

Clyde...

dying before I finish this work.

In the course of these hearings

on tax-exempt foundations...

we intend to show how Communists

are financed in the United States.

There is a diabolical conspiracy

back of all this...

and its aim is the furtherance

of socialism in America.

Do you agree that Kinsey's research...

aids the communistic aim...

of weakening and destroying

the youth of our country?

I do not agree, sir.

Well, tell me, Dr. Gregg...

does the Rockefeller Foundation

really believe...

that it belongs in the business

of sex research?

I think it's probably something...

the foundation shouldn't

have anything to do with.

Dr. Kinsey's project

is now in a position...

to obtain support from...

other sources.

With the loss of support

from the Rockefeller Foundation...

Dr. Kinsey's project will need

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Bill Condon

William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director. He wrote and directed the films Gods and Monsters (1998), Kinsey (2004), and Dreamgirls (2006), wrote the screenplay for Chicago (2002), and directed the final two installments of the Twilight series (2011, 2012), and Beauty and the Beast (2017). Condon won an Academy Award as screenwriter for Gods and Monsters; he was also nominated for his screenplay for Chicago. His work in television includes directing pilot episodes for several series. more…

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