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However, the production quickly spiraled out of control. Gore Vidal famously disowned the project after clashing with director Tinto Brass over the film’s tone. Vidal wanted politics; Brass wanted erotica. The situation deteriorated further when Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine and the film's primary financier, intervened. Unhappy with Brass's focus on "perversion" rather than straight pornography, Guccione secretly hired his own crew to film hardcore sex scenes and spliced them into the final cut. film caligula netflix