While Leloo does walk around naked for a good portion of the movie you never see her breasts.
Actually the almighty Bruce Campbell said that.
Yeah you do. For a very short time, when she’s just been recreated and is lying down in the chamber, right before she’s reanimated.
This is probably not a popular opinion but I don’t get why breasts rate any kind of additionaly rating anyway. They are just breasts! I don’t have a problem with my kids seeing topless females. We used to see as much or more at the beach when we lived in Europe anyway. But I don’t want to turn this into a great debate.
Surely everyone remembers the Jello jiggling and then…
To throw oil into the roiled waters here …
I recall the producer of “How to Beat the High Cost of Living” complaining bitterly about his movie getting an “R” rating from the MPAA. Apparently, the only thing in it that would justify such a rating was the brief exposure of a pair of breasts in a non-sexual moment, and such things had been seen in “PG” movies on a regular basis at the time.
The only thing that made these breasts different was that they belonged to Jane Curtin, of Saturday Night Live fame. (This was in the heyday of the original SNL shows.)
I’m still trying to figure that one out.
The obvious answer is that Jane Curtin isn’t sexy, but that’s just mean. IIRC she doesn’t actually flash for the camera. She’s doing a strip to distract people from the Money Ball and gets down to bra, then yells something like “who wants to see 1985?” (there was a year-by-year theme to the strip). She takes off the bra but is only shown from the back.
MentalGuy: Yeah…the MPAA says PG, and it also says so on my DVD =].
I remember reading about how the makers of South Park kept getting NC-17 as the rating for South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut. The reasons always revlved around certain jokes that the panel decided were too vulgar. What the makers decided to do was change each joke to a slightly worse/more vulgar joke and see what happened. Well, since the panel changes every time a movie gets reviewed, the different panels kept approving the vulgarer version of the joke but dissapproved of other jokes. So the process of changing each joke to a more vulgar version kept repeating itself until finally some panel gave it an R and the movie was released.
Oh, also, I just remembered that scene from The Abyss where the leading lady and that guy from Pollock are trapped in a submersible. There’s only enough air for one of them, so she decided to let Pollock guy have it. So he swims her to the main craft while she hopes her body will “pass out” but not die. Anyway, he gets her on the ship, and in order to save her, he rips her shirt open and does CPR. I’m not sure, but I think I saw her boobs in that. The movie had a PG-13 rating. Just another example…
Quoth scottandrsn:
No kidding. Everyone knows that the proper term is “boobilicious”.
There’s a scene in Student Bodies where someone purporting to be a producer of the film breaks in to the action and says “In order for a film to receive and R rating, it must contain either full-frontal nudity, excessive violence or a graphic description of the sex act. Since this film contains none of these things, allow me to take a moment to say ‘fuck you’.”
Largely meaningless to the present discussion but seeing that scene as an early-teen person I thought it was hilarious.
Well, then it’d be pretty stupid for the movie to have received its “R” rating.
My recollection is that she did flash the camera, for less than a second, and the movie was slapped with an “R.” That’s what the producer was complaining about. He then cut the scene to remove her “breastal nudity” and got the PG rating he was looking for.
I seem to recall him comparing it to “Kramer vs. Kramer”, which also had a very mild nude scene but which received a PG rating instead of an R. I could be wrong on that, though.
A striptease is a sexual context. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (for instance) is not a sexual context. That’s the difference. What was the nude scene in Kramer vs. Kramer about?
Were you perchance thinking of this article or a similar one? From the article:
The entire article is well worth reading; it highlights some of the difficulties independent filmmakers have encountered in getting their films rated by the MPAA.
The KvK nude scene involved the son going to pee in the middle of the night and meeting Dad’s naked squeeze on her way to the bathroom. the nudity itself was non-sexual but obviously sprang from a sexual situation.
That’s the one, Max =].
Sometimes this is taken into account and the word is removed. There is a scene in Galaxy Quest (a much under-rated film) in which Sigourney Weaver clearly mouths the words “Well, fuck that!” but it’s been dubbed “Well, screw that!”
I’m not sure if dodging the R-rating helped the box office, which was a respectable $54 million. Maybe if they’d gone all out with Weaver nude and grimmer violence and rougher language, they might have done okay among the “R” movies, but that seems counter to the inherent silliness of the Trekkie-spoofing plot.