Nudity in Film

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I no longer feel the same intense embarrassment I used to feel, but I'm not comfortable as a whole. My mom is cool about it, she opens her eyes wide and laughs at us. My dad would never EVER be cool with it but he doesn't live with us so...

I'm 21 and my best friend who is the same age tells me to cover my eyes when a really graphic sex scene is playing. :rolleyes: Sometimes I just look at him and others I ask "why" and he doesn't say anything else.
 
I don't like it when it's "Oh look, there's Halle Berry's tits", as was the case in Swordfish. Then when you watch Monster's Ball you know she isn't bearing her breasts just to show the girls off and sell a few more tickets, but because it actually adds to the film. That said, I don't mind it when there are shots of nudity which don't seem to have any apparent reason...as long as it's not done in a Playboy/FHM manner. It's not sexual or tittilating, it's just there in a very natural way. I don't view nudity as this taboo thing, I don't feel weird seeing a naked woman or man on the screen...it's just a bod. ;)

Frankly, I kind of get distracted by really graphic love scenes because I'm always wondering whether the male actor got aroused whilst filming. I mean, I know there are cameramen and the boom guy etc so it's not that sexy, but if they get caught up in the "movement" and passion of it all...I'd think it'd be terribly embarrassing.
 
I agree.

Requiem for a Dream is a whole lot of disturbing from start to finish. I can't believe I've watched it more than once. It's such a downer.

Haha, Will Ferrell streaking is the only scene I've seen from Old School and it just cracks me up every single time.
 
Tame, really, compared to that disturbing sex scene -- between Jennifer Connolly's character and some unknown actress's, in front of a gang of men -- in Requiem For A Dream. Then again, it's tough making it through that whole movie.

I prefer nudity when it's used comically -- Will Ferrell streaking in Old School. I don't think it's always necessary in love scenes. I mean, you can get the point across without having to show everything. It's no big deal to me, though.
 
i would love to see my favorite actors nude..i did actually see some of them nude..;)
 
What i find to be a ridiculous notion is when a female says," she showed her breasts, the man should have to show his penis". I don't think this is equal at all. If the woman shows her breasts, then the logical equivalent would be for the man to show his breasts. Furthermore, I don't think it is a "equal viewing" to show a mans privates as opposed to a womans vagina...as a vagina is not as easily viewable as a penis. All men get to see is pubic hair, no clitoris, no labia...just carpet. So, if women are afforded a full on view of men...men should be given an equal view of women. I don't believe that from a sexual/biological/evolutionary stand point that women have any where near the innate desire to see mens frontal as men do of womens frontal. It's just an absurd attempt by women to "mimic and match" mens libidos, mimic our sexual/social habits...and in the process having the luxury of not having to truthfully admit that opposite gender nudity does not rev their engines the same way it does for men. Lastly, not all women make remarks such as...."where is the male nudity?"..."all that movie showed was naked women, thats not right", but the women who do respond in this manner are often acting on a responsive reflex. In other words, they believe the feelings of being uncomfortable or inadequate from seeing naked females in movies,etc... may be deflected by such comments. Some women will also argue that they have been socially conditioned to suppress their libidos, but nature is much more dominant, while nuture is more passive.
 
I really don't understand why so many people have a problem with nudity - its such a normal part of life, we've all seen someone nude before. What i really don't understand is excessive violence where hundereds of innocent bystanders get blown up to further the plot of an action film - i think it has made us much more tolerant of 'collateral damage' in real life. I don't mind when theres actually a point to it - for example in Irreversible, it used both sex and violence to show how horrific violence really is and hopefully undo a bit of the desensitisation that we have had inflicted upon us from many mainstream films. It was quite horific to watch and i really wouldn't want to see it again but it was definitley worthwhile.
 
I agree with you all, if it adds to the movie.

Cold Mountain?
Would you expect less? I think that scene was extremely essential to the film.

It really doesn't bother me
 
I really don't mind nudity as long as it's done in a tasteful manner (one of the movies that come to mind is Unfaithful)and is not excessive. But I'm never going to watch movies that have nudity with my parents, oh no. :eek:

I have mixed feelings about Y Tu Mama También, I didn't think that all that nudity contributed to the story.

Re: penetration? I am icked out by that, it's one of the things you shouldn't put in a movie.
 
I like boobies. Yet, if the storyline doesn't really call for it, like say a sex scene in the middle for no reason, then I just don't htink it's necessary, but i'll slomo it anyway.
 
Personally as a girl it bugs me that women's breasts are flashed wildly in almost every teen film and most romances, while most men's butt scenes are cut or in the background. Also I think if in films that the women fully nude the men should be as well, cause then it just goes back to objectifing women.
Also I've rented movies before when I heard the lead actor has a full frontal only to discover that it was later cut annoys me, like A Home at the End of the World (Colin Farrel:D).
 
:lol: I totally understand! But I've been seeing so many movies lately that have nude scenes (especially male nude scenes) with my parents, my father moreso than my mother, that I'm getting so used to it. My father, brother and I just about died laughing yesterday during the male nude scene in Sideways. :lol:

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I agree with you. But I believe that a kid (10 and under) would be shocked, not really scared, of any body part shown on a movie under who knows what concept.

I would love my children to feel natural about female and male bodies but I do think it takes a certain amount of delicacy because we are not the only vessels of information kids have access to. Which, by the way, should press every parent to talk about sex and sexuality to their kids. Yet I would prefer that a movie not interfere with this process at an early age.

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I don't want my children to be scared of human body parts male or female. My mom talked to me about sex when I was 9, that's also because I was a precocious child who was already curious at that age. It is up to a parent to assess what they think their child is ready for, but to not talk about it at all is the real poison, whether it be violence or sex.
 
:lol: Sometimes when I watch a sex scene and my parents are with me I feel a bit of embarrassment, too.

But apart from that, nudity that is tasteful and for has a reason for happening is appreciated. Unnecessary nudity is tolerated.
 
It doesn't really bother me if it's part of the story. Gratuitious, worthless nudity, however, does. Well, doesn't "bother" me per se, but it just seems pointless.

I think violence is a lot bigger deal than nudity--it drives me nuts that we'll give movies higher ratings because a woman's breasts (something NATURAL) are showing, while we can let someone being blown to smithereens slide. :rolleyes:
 
I haven't seen Little Children yet! I guess I don't know a lot about the film because I didn't know there was graphic sex scenes in it.
 
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