Actually there is/are a few shots of Christian Slater’s “junk”.
I have scene movie like 10 times. When does this happen?
Well, as many times as I’ve seen it, I honestly can’t pinpoint the timeline. I think it’s after Wendy realizes Jack is insane, it might even be when he’s locked in the pantry. Anyway, she’s skulking around the hotel and starts seeing the ghosts of the past, in the ballroom and whatnot, and as she’s walking down one of the halls we get a glimpse into a bedroom where we see a man sitting on a bed with another man kneeling in front of him who suddenly looks in Wendy’s direction and he has a dog mask on. It’s totally random and out of context (in the movie, that is; the book explains it) and even if you do catch it, if you haven’t read the book there is no way to understand wha the hell you just saw. If someone would care to correct me , feel free.
No, they were unrated simply because the filmmakers never submitted the movies to the MPAA, knowing that they weren’t going to make an “R” with onscreen fellatio. Getting a movie rated costs money, and the only incentive for doing so is getting it played in mainstream theaters. Since they were at least going to get an NC-17, and the type of theaters that would play NC-17’s would also play unrateds, they took the most economically sound choice. Nothing pretentious about it.
Oh, I get it, you’re saying you went into those thinking the filmmakers eschewed the MPAA rating process for artistic street-cred, not because they had actual content in them that would make getting a rating pointless. Nevermind, then.
I’m not exactly sure when the scene occurs, but I wouldn’t call it out of context. Kubrick definitely had a minotaur myth thing going on between that (part animal, part man) and the labytinth. You can read a bit about it here though there’s no link to the Foucault essay “Such a Cruel Knowledge” online.
Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give.
Total surprise full-frontal from a woman well past middle age…
-Joe
Hmmmmm. I can see the connection with the hedge maze, cause it’s ya know, a maze, but I’d always thought that Kubrick threw the dogman scene in as a little freaky nod-to-the book tidbit. Even if it is some tie-in with the minotaur thing, I don’t see how anyone would pick up on it, since most people can’t even discern what they’re seeing. Interesting link, though. Thanks, Cat Fight.