"It's awesome, approx. seven scenes. Very Hot"
"she looks hot and smokes hot. The editing is cheezy in some scenes, but there's still plenty of real good stuff all through the movie."
"a MUST see video"
"Several scenes, where the character makes a point of enjoying her deep inhales"
"I had the hots for Kari back during her stint on MTVs Remote Control. I can now state with complete conviction that her character in 'Red Blooded' is the most sexy, raunchy, promiscuous, suggestive, tantalizing, mezmerizing, seductive, and oh, did I forget to mention slutty, smoking performance of all-time. Really it's laughable to try and hold anything up for comparison. Previously I was a staunch defender of Theresa Russell in 'Whore' for this impressive achievement. But Theresa couldn't hold a candle to sexy Kari's cigarettes, as they dangle ubiquitously from her lovely lips. The following is a complete recap of her prodigious smoking"
"Scene 1: Hooker Kari jumps in a stranger's car after almost being raped at a truck stop by her long lost father who she was trying to score until she found out who he was. Calming herself she smokes an all-white in the car. At this point she resembles a character the fetish-less public could care about."
"Scene 2: Kari wiggles into a convenience store and brings a six-pack to the counter where she flirts with a young boy, even referring to her tits by name as she jiggles them. While she thumbs through a hard-core porno mag she invites the clerk to take a look at page 69. When she's asked if she wants to buy anything else we get to hear her say, 'Yeah. Cigarettes. In the *hard* pack.' In black bra, with open vinyl jacket, she then lights up with a match right in front of him. Edit to the boy staring bugeyed at this display of sluttiness. He swallows hard. Kari feigns an orgasm and then jumps on the counter to kiss him goodbye. She struts out the door, dangling her lit cigarette with the pack between her tits and then takes a big drag when she seats herself in the car, the cigarette finally leaving her full lips. And then, there's poor editing in our favor! (How often does that happen?). We get a close up inside the car of Kari taking the same drag. Amazingly this same bit of shoddiness manages to reassert itself with the exhale as the editing takes us to both angles. So we get drag, drag, exhale, exhale, even though there was only one puff. But then maybe they wanted to use this stuff because it was so good. Hmmm. And then to close the scene we get a little smoke trailing her spoken line as she flicks the mostly unsmoked cigarette out the window in a high arc."
"Scene 3: Kari has just finished a thoroughly X-rated dominatrix scene with her driver at a remote cabin when she stumbles out the door and greets the innkeeper, whom she knows was spying on her lovemaking. He's startled as she stumbles toward him slightly and eyes her warily as she reaches into her stocking. 'Relax,' says a fetching Kari as she removes her pack of cigarettes from her pantyhose. As she brings the pack close to her mouth, she says, 'It's just a cigarette.' And very soon her lips have secured that cigarette from the pack. The bald, dirty old man senses that Kari's kinky mood may well be still with her and rather shakily asks, 'Can I get what the boy got?' Kari seems intrigued by the brazenness of the question as she dangles unlit, sizing him up a bit. Then she puts Zippo flame to cigarette, takes a great big suck of her cigarette and before exhaling an enormous plume of smoke, posits the question, 'You want me to bend and spread for 30 seconds so you can get it off for 30 seconds?' The old man is not to be denied. 'More like a marathon,' he boldly proclaims. A little byplay continues with Kari holding her cigarette, elbow bent, up near her face. (Don't you love how women love to show off their smoking poise this way?) Cut to a big exhale that Kari emits as she walks to the oldtimer and places her hand on his shoulder. She then proceeds to give him an open mouth kiss, possibly a little smoky. After the kiss, 'Been awhile, huh.' He stammers, 'Three years.' Then with cigarette held dangerously close to her lips, 'That's not a marriage, that's a life sentence.' Cigarette enters mouth, which we see from straight on, and then, wonderfully from over the back of her right shoulder as she drags sensuously with her right hand, maintaining eye contact with the old, bald, meek man in the flannel coat. Back to the direct angle for the exhale and it's a lovely one. The woman wouldn't know a shallow drag or exhale if it bit her in the ass. Anyway, a little more teasing dialogue, with Kari tonguing her lips teasingly, but ultimately stating, 'Sorry, no sale.' The lust-crazed coot then pulls a gun on her. Kari, now in a full body shot, moves her bent arm away from her body just enough so that her right tit can be fondled by the gun (I'm not making this stuff up, I promise!). Well, Kari gets the gun. He gives it to her. But first that cigarette must go in her mouth and she makes a lovely show of it, licking her teeth in anticipation of being rejoined by her cigarette as she gets to hold the gun. She poses a bit with the gun, cigarette nestled between her teeth. A big drag (there is no other kind with this vixen) and then she takes her cigarette away with her left hand. She then gives her tit a prodding of her own with the steel barrel, before tossing her cigarette to the ground."
"Scene 4: Several drags in a rock 'n' roll cafe. Mostly over her right shoulder, but at least one very close shot straight on. A delicious 'thwup' sound accompanies her inhale."
"Scene 5: Ambient smoke in the nighttime car as they roll down the highway, with driver talking to mom. Kari can't resist this opportunity to rub her hand over his crotch as he carries on with his mother. He looks sweaty and nervous, she positivily orgasmic. After he hangs up we get to see her enjoy her cigarette, this time from the left profile, with a lip-smacking drag angling her cigarette way upward, as is usually her custom. Full sound effects on this one, too. Then another from directly in front."
"Scene 6: It's daytime and they're still on the road. Kari's applying foundation to her face with her compact and cigarette both in her left hand. Then we view her left profile again and we get a lovely long drag, deep inhale and full exhale. The camera has no interest in leaving her until she's absolutely done seducing us with her foxy smoking. Another exhale follows."
"Scene 7: At Kari's insistence they pick up a hitcher. Her driver friend is clean cut and strait-laced. The hitcher is a tree-hugging somewhat grungy looking hippie. Kari climbs in the back with him and sticks her tits in his face. He offers her some pot, she takes a drag. She's getting high, with a couple of exhales through animated lips when she refers to her tits as 'God's gift to mankind.' The hitcher is promptly removed from the car by jealous driver."
"Scene 8: Kari chugs bourbon from the bottle and we get a closeup of her beautifully proportioned face which is soon to be augmented by an unlit Marlboro Light moving straight from the pack to her dangling lips. She lets it hang there as a report comes on the car radio about one of her violent misadventures. She looks a little non-plussed and proceeds with a lovely lightup, administered from a zippo held by elegantly gloved hands. A couple of tiny contemplative no-hands drags follow as the gravity of the situation sinks in. As Kari suddenly gets the big picture, we are treated to a tight closeup of her giving her cigarette a loving puff. Kari's head bobs slightly, her tongue comes up a bit and her lips tenderly waggle around this drag, which ends in a lengthy smiling exhale."
"Scene 9: No smoking, but Kari does bury her head in his lap in a movie theater with young adolescent kids looking at the screen in front of them."
"Scene 10: In a diner, an over the right shoulder light up, completed by a left-hand drag. Then we see her from her guy's point of view as he approaches her table. It's a medium-long shot, but we can see the cigarette snugly between her lips and she's dragging on it. He crosses in front of her and by the time we see Kari again she's just beginning her exhale. But this appears to be no ordinary exhale. This looks like a cotton-puff smoke ball coming from her lips. But on further examination, it's actually a French inhale! Kari is relishing her opportunity to assume the pedestal of all-time smoking goddess and she has no intention of letting up! Some dimestore philosophy ensues with Kari giving us not talking exhales, but talk and then exhales. We then get another treat. As she's dragging she's still talking. This moves her cigarette downward in her mouth, a look we haven't gotten before. But it soon stands at erect attention, pointing upward in her mouth as she completes the drag in yet another extreme close-up. They then leave the table, with Kari holding her pack of cigarettes in her hand and her lit cigarette in her mouth. She's being ogled by a backwoods trucker-type and she knows it. Cigarette is removed from mouth. She taunts, 'What's a matter, still hungry.' Then it's time for a head-tilted exhale as she hikes up her black vinyl skirt to flaunt her ass."
"Scene 11: Back in the car in daylight. Nothing remarkable here for Kari, but they'd be two of the most sumptuous drags on record for any other actress. In the second one her cigarette sports a long ash."
"Scene 12: Here it is, the piece de resistance, the coup de grace, the scene which makes everything which came before it somehow look pedestrian by comparison. It's night, driving still. Kari's getting into her partner's head a little. She takes a cigarette out and is surprised when the driver says, 'Can I have one.' Surprised, but no doubt delighted, because here Kari gets to break through all the barriers and smoke like what's really on her mind. She takes a second cigarette out of the pack, like she knows just what to do. She places both cigarettes between her lips simultaneously. We're watching from the driver's side. They project out at completely different angles. Kari is spreading her legs for us, metaphorically. These cigarettes are leaving her lips at a 45 degree angle. It's insanely sexy, and clearly she preparing us for her big climax. She then holds them both together as we witness her double blow job from a straight-on point of view. Her lighter ignites. Her cigarettes are both pointed down. One becomes lit and somehow she manages to take a deep, no-hands drag on it while the other lays motionless on the other side of her mouth. Her cigarettes are now in a scissors position in her mouth. Then they both come up to the same height, angled so beautifully and dramatically from her lips that they look like a ski jumpers ski's as he's just left the runway. Both cigarettes are clearly going at this point, earning her a perfect 10 from the fetish judge. She then keeps her word and takes one of the cigarettes away, but is sure to leave the other one in her mouth to finish her drag. We're back to a left profile again and the guy coughs as he so readily demonstrates that cigarettes are a woman's business. A shot again straight-on of Kari shows her dragging contentedly and smiling a little wickedly at this unforseen development."
"Scene 13: It's Thanksgiving and Kari arrives with her friend at his parents' house. Upon being introduced she immediately dismisses her mother as 'anal retentive' and necks with his father. She's then alone with the mother and is of course smoking. She takes a luxurious drag, giving her cigarette a wonderful lip-lashing. A distant no-hands drag shot follows and then a fleeting left-hand drag, but it's clear there's nowhere to go from here. The SWAT team is in the house ready to take her out and besides, Kari has already unveiled her incredible array of smoking tricks."
"Epilogue: As amazing as all that I've described is, there are still some Holy Grails to discover with Kari. Firstly, I actually find Marlboro Lights borderline unsexy. At least I did. This film is the exception to the rule. Second, we need Kari to blow smoke rings at some point. She missed a golden opportunity here and a persnickety critic has a responsibility to call her on it. Thirdly, we need Kari to smoke more with her left hand in the future, as well as employ cork tip 100s at some point. It is nice to see her smoking Mores, perhaps in real life. There's a picture on [someone's] site of her dangling (upward of course) a More."
Other references to this movie:
Kari Wuhrer - Info - video, Red Blooded American Girl II (1995), youtube, c. '95
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