There was another thread that I don’t want to rethread (Uncomfortable scenes), but in this I want to focus on degrading scenes. Those scenes who depict an actress/actor in a situation that makes you feel a little sad sympathy for them, a situation that you will never accept to perform if you were in their shoes.
My favorites (not for good) are:
The oral sex stuck of Selma Blair in The Sweetest Thing.
Jennifer Connely and the double-ass dildo in Requiem for a Dream.
Rape of Ned Beatty in Deliverance.
The sex with the strange creature by Isabelle Adjani in Possession.
The fisting scene of Isabella Rosselini in Blue Velvet.
Of course there are more that I don’t recall by now, but it has to refer to sex-degradation. I cannot understand how would they feel when their kids or relatives see those scenes.
No, I’m not interested in porn. I saw it in my young days and now it bores me. This is just because I feel sympathy for mainstream performers who have to do that kind of stuff.
Wow! Unless you’re preparing a lawsuit against Hollywood or writing some kind of paper on violence against women, this seems really sick. Assuming you’ve a legitimate reason, what about Jennifer Jason Leigh in the gang rape in Last Exit to Brooklyn, or Kerry Fox performing fellatio on Mark Rylance in Intimacy (which I’ve not actually seen, but is pretty notorious).
“Reanimator” does it for me. Ugh. Not only does the first sex scene feature a man rolling off his lover without even saying, “Gosh, sweetie, I sure enjoy being with you,” the end of the movie has this scene in which the semiconscious ingenue is surrounded by leering, drooling monsters who leer and drool all over her while ripping off her top. I was watching this poor young lady, with every eye in the room pointedly pointed toward her nakedness, and all I could think was, “That is the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen a director do to an actor.”
Surely something like the Jennifer Connelly scene would actually be staged by body-doubles, you wouldn’t get an actress of her standing actually performing the act herself - hell actresses regularly get body-doubles for harmless nude scenes, like in Titanic. So my point is, do those scenes really count at all?
It seems like some of those could be good moments–it can’t be easy to maintain your dignity and do such humiliating stuff. Perhaps the most embarrassing thing is getting stuck with somethig easy, like an even tempered cashier. Then for the rest of your career, other actors will say things like, “Sure, falling off a log is easy, but not as easy as playing even tempered cashier!”
At first, Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Main character, Raymond, seemed to be just that: a humiliating role. But once you watch it and appreciate it, it seems like quite an accomplishment.
The actor (name escaped me) who was raped in Pulp Fiction is a nominee.
Never heard of the Jennifer Conelly scene. Cute kid. What happened in that one??
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to view 8 1/2 women, I probably need say no more. If you haven’t, consider this: Man climbs into bed with his elderly father, then asks him to remove his underwear. Ewwwwwwwwww.
Are we talking about scenes depicting degrading situations, or just scenes that actors might be reluctant to do in front of cameras? In Intimacy, for example, Kerry Fox went beyond what most mainstream actesses would be willing to do in a scene, but the situation being depicted isn’t degrading at all; it’s just two adult lovers have some oral sex in private, which is fairly normal, I understand.
I don’t see anything degrading about this scene at all–it’s actually a moment of liberation for the two characters. Are you saying, JuanitaTech, that doing it with BBT is automatically degrading?
