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Cruel Intentions (1999)

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That film was based on a propaganda book from 1700s France called Dangerous Liaisons. Some French general was angered that the royal families were banging women and not paying his troops or focusing on the military. So he wrote a book about a bunch of rich royals seducing women and throwing them away and published it to mock the royal family. It was very thinly veiled allegory. And in the end of the book all of the women get STDs and one goes blind from her diseases.

Instead of the book being a scathing look at the royals though, it was seen as a dark comedy, and sold a ton of copies and became very popular. The author used the money to build all sorts of new weapons for the military and is credited as creating the modern artillery shell. He retired from the military but immediately regretted it and wanted to be a general again but he couldn't get his job back. He was finally reinstated by Napoleon and died later during the war of malaria. Wild life.
 
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That film was based on a propaganda book from 1700s France called Dangerous Liaisons. Some French general was angered that the royal families were banging women and not paying his troops or focusing on the military. So he wrote a book about a bunch of rich royals seducing women and throwing them away and published it to mock the royal family. It was very thinly veiled allegory. And in the end of the book all of the women get STDs and one goes blind from her diseases.

Instead of the book being a scathing look at the royals though, it was seen as a dark comedy, and sold a ton of copies and became very popular. The author used the money to build all sorts of new weapons for the military and is credited as creating the modern artillery shell. He retired from the military but immediately regretted it and wanted to be a general again but he couldn't get his job back. He was finally reinstated by Napoleon and died later during the war of malaria. Wild life.
We had to read it in French at school. I never knew Laclos was a general until now
 
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