Swordfish was playing on AMC tonight–how’d they edit the scene where her boobs are front and center? I had to move my car and missed it.
call the police.
I always do when confronted by boobs.
Did they cut the scene out entirely? Substitute a PG-13 version of the scene? Black out the boobies? It was a version with “Story Notes” and I was wondering what, if anything, the story notes would have to say.
I saw a version where she was wearing a bikini top. Don’t remember the channel though.
Hmmm, seems kinda lame. I mean, Hugh Jackman (I think) is supposed to be mightily distracted by the appearance of the boobs in the scene in a way that he probably wouldn’t be by a mere bikini top. I mean, the humor of that scene is the boobies, no?
It’s amazing how those 5 seconds constitute about 99% of my memory of that movie.
You sir have a superior memory. Those 5 seconds constitute about 99% of my memory of the first half of that decade.
Did she get some enhancements? I seem to remember an old Spike Lee film where they were hardly noticeable.
Maybe I’m thinking of someone else.
I think you are. The only reason that movie made a blip one anyone’s radar is because the media made a big point of Halle showing off her boobs. I doubt they would have done that if she had done it previously.
According to imdb:
Alternate television takes were shot for the scene with Ginger at the pool (she wears a bikini) and where Stanley hacks into the main frame of the Departement of Defense (Helga is not there).
Am I the only one that thought Berry’s scenes in the opening of the movie in the short bootie hugging dress were hotter than the topless scene? When she hiked it up and bent over to swing the golf club, I was like ‘oh my.’
Speaking for myself, I would be distracted by Halle Berry in the same room with me even if she was wearing a suit of armor.
I saw the replay yesterday and can confirm this. Helga is there originally, up to the moment where she makes out with Hugh with a mouthful of tequila, and then she’s simply absent until he finishes breaking in to the main frame, at which point she’s there again and he sort of pushes her away.
As for Berry, they clearly re-shot the scene, but only the front-on camera angle. Any time they show her from farther away or from behind, the chair is a completely different height - so from the back you can see that she’s topless, cause the chair only comes up to her shoulder blades (and there’s no bikini top straps tied around the back of her neck), but from the front she has a bikini top on and the chair goes up past the top of her head.
I saw a version once where they 'shopped a bikini top on. It was blatantly obvious because the bikini string disappeared just before it went around her neck.
It was extra funny when the front shot showed the bikini that should be tied around her neck but the back shot showed no strings at all.
Did this small-breasted person in a Spike Lee film wear vintage acetate frames and a Van Dyke, by any chance?
She was Flipper Purify’s (Wesley Snipes) crack-head sister in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever. I don’t recall any topless scenes - maybe her offering sex to her brother or someone walking by for drugs or something. This was when Halle was doing stuff like Boomerang with Eddie Murphy and was looking for roles with more street cred…
Probably ABC Family. ISTR a website that had a few “before” and “after” shots of similar incidents on that channel.