What if he has a really small penis? That could seriously hurt his career. He may merely be trying to protect himself.
Maybe he has a teeny-weeny.
I was wondering if I was missing something in the OP. Evidently if I am, so are you. I don’t think either of us is. He had the choice to take the role and do frontal nudity or not take the role and not do frontal nudity.
As for how great a person Bertolucci is … I’m a great fan of any number of people, but if frontal nudity were required to work with 'em, that’d nix the job in most cases. Would it be any of your business if it were me and not Jake? Cuz I gotta be honest here … I don’t see what the BFD is.
True.
And this movie was not one of the exceptions.
And really, how many movies show female genitals? I can’t even think of one.
To this day I’m not sure how anyone can honestly say they see any part of Sharon Stone’s naughty bits in Basic Instinct.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
He is on the record as saying he will do nudity if he feels it is necessary for the plot: http://www.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2003/20030224
Let’s make a distinction here: Some movies may show a woman’s pubic hair, but no mainstream feature shows a woman’s genitals.
So if Amanda Bynes turned down doing a film that had lots of sex and nudity that was being directed by Oscar winning director Roman Polanski, would she be a fraud?
Apparently, The Piano was one of them.
What about Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil?
Yeah, if you have a DVD and go frame by frame you can catch one frame that shows that the curtains do indeed match the drapes.
Not exactly my idea of easily accessible nudity.
I thought she was shaved?
Maybe I was just tramatized by seeing it on the big screen.
Nope, one of my friends was a little overexcited about what he said was Milla’s vagina in Resident Evil.
I see it in the theater as well and don’t see anything so I figure he just swa something that wasn’t there.
After the DVD comes out I’m bored, pop it in, and sure enough, a thin red line.
I dunno, Harvey Keitel showing his penis in “The Bad Lieutenant” really underlined and punctuated how f*cked up his character was. I understand his penis also did a fine job in “The Piano” as well. I may stop going to movies featuring Harvey Keitel and just go to those featuring his penis.
A character might show everything in complete explicit detail - but do we have to see it on film? No we do not.
Trust me. I work in the porn business, I see genitalia every single day. Porn is the only place where it’s required. Outside of that, you can easily cut around it.
I would go further to say that about 75% of the occasions of even softcore topless female nudity in non-porn movies is unnecessary and gratuitous. The few times I think it should be allowable is during a sex or shower scene (which also is sometimes gratuitous, but not as often) or when the character is in bed and clearly nude at the time. Hiding your boobs when you’re clearly naked and with your significant other I think is absurd.
Until recently, when Bertolucci gave us The Dreamers (does that qualify as mainstream? In Seattle it does) which, though more boring than Psych 101, is relatively gender-democratic w/r/t the naughty bits.
Let’s not forget Julianne Moore’s pudenda in Short Cuts.
And Jake Gyllenhall taking the high road about doing nudity in films while talking about it in the most vulgar, and coarse manner is just too, too rich.
Is there anybody left in Hollywood with brains and class?