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Snow Ho
11-19-2004, 04:51 PM
Hollywood is fleshing out an old taboo: male frontal nudity.Four current films feature actors in the full monty:


• In Kinsey (in theaters), a student played by Peter Sarsgaard seduces sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson). Says Sarsgaard, "We were just sitting around (during filming), and I said, 'I feel I've got to be naked for this.' " There was almost a Neeson nude scene, too. "Liam was perfectly willing, but for budgetary reasons, we cut it, unfortunately," says writer/director Bill Condon. "I know, it is a disappointment."


• In Sideways (in theaters), husky actor M.C. Gainey runs out of the house naked in angry pursuit of Paul Giamatti (news).


• In Alexander (opening Wednesday), Colin Farrell goes buff for a wedding-night sex scene in the Oliver Stone epic. Farrell also filmed a nude scene in his last film, A Home at the End of the World. But that scene was cut after producers thought it was too distracting.


•In Bad Education (opening today; review, 7E), Gael Garcํa Bernal doesn't bare all but comes close while preparing for a swim.


While penises are not yet as prevalent as female breasts, they are becoming more accepted.


"It's not about gender," says Moritz Borman, producer of Alexander. "In a mature movie, if some nudity would improve the scene, it wouldn't matter if it were Alexander or Alexandra. A filmmaker would have to consider it."


It's about time, some women say. "As a woman, I'm glad. I want to watch male bodies," says Linda Williams, a film-studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley. "There is a growing eroticism about the male body that hasn't quite existed before."


It may be a form of rebellion in this post-Janet Jackson (news) environment, says Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, a film and feminist studies professor at the University of Nebraska. As in the 1950s, "There's a tremendous amount of repression now. People are upset over seeing Saving Private Ryan. At the same time, you have a popular culture that is pushing boundaries to a degree that doesn't seem to match."


But any trend is just coincidence, says Jim McBride, who runs mr.skin.com, which chronicles nude scenes in film. McBride notes that full-frontal male nude scenes pop up every few years, and most are limited to art-house releases that are rated R or NC-17. Of the current films with male nudity, Bad Education is NC-17, the rest are R.


Foster disagrees and says the trend will continue as more women move into the upper echelons of the male-dominated film industry.


"This general attitude toward pushing things toward the edge is definitely popularizing new images we haven't seen before, taking a look at the human body and looking at men and women equally without objectifying anyone. It's more about artistic license than box office draw," Foster says.




LINK (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=680&ncid=762&e=5&u=/usatoday/20041119/en_usatoday/malefrontalnudityinthemoviesuncoversanolddebate)

Alias
11-19-2004, 05:02 PM
Originally posted by Snow Ho
• In Alexander (opening Wednesday), Colin Farrell goes buff for a wedding-night sex scene in the Oliver Stone epic.

Yea! :bananna:

diamondsgirl
11-19-2004, 05:03 PM
Originally posted by Snow Ho

• In Alexander (opening Wednesday), Colin Farrell goes buff for a wedding-night sex scene in the Oliver Stone epic. Farrell also filmed a nude scene in his last film, A Home at the End of the World. But that scene was cut after producers thought it was too distracting.




Colin...yummy...

http://chilax.com/~nine/Colin/F6.jpg

diamondsgirl
11-19-2004, 05:09 PM
Originally posted by Snow Ho

• In Kinsey (in theaters), a student played by Peter Sarsgaard seduces sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson). Says Sarsgaard, "We were just sitting around (during filming), and I said, 'I feel I've got to be naked for this.' " There was almost a Neeson nude scene, too. "Liam was perfectly willing, but for budgetary reasons, we cut it, unfortunately," says writer/director Bill Condon. "I know, it is a disappointment."




not sure I want to see this. :eek:

Switch84
11-19-2004, 06:33 PM
:confused: The 'fear of dick' is due to the fact that we Grrls like it and our significant others are afraid of not 'measuring up'.


I don't understand the big appeal of Chippendales back in the day;they never did the 'Full Monty'. Male strip joints in Canada does. There's one in Windsor I and my grrlfriends went to alot, and it was WILD!!! Those guys were HOT!

Hmmm, a hot, sexy naked man.......what woman wouldn't like to see that on film (and onstage?)


Cum on, Davy Baby..........GET NAKED!!!!!



Nuthin' but YEAH!!!!!

DeadOrAlive
11-19-2004, 06:36 PM
WAAAAHHHH!!!!! I don't need a gay experience!!

Switch84
11-19-2004, 06:45 PM
Originally posted by DeadOrAlive
WAAAAHHHH!!!!! I don't need a gay experience!!


:) Sweetie, you won't! We Grrls have seen endless amounts of female ass in movies and none of us are gay! Seeing a dude naked on screen won't make you gay, either!

You're too young to get into an R rated naked man flick, anyway!


LMMFAOBT!

DeadOrAlive
11-19-2004, 06:52 PM
Ummm... ok... I already had to suffer through a video about Testicular Cancer...:uck:

CROWBAR
11-19-2004, 07:05 PM
Hey, get all the dick ya want! Rent a porn

Switch84
11-19-2004, 07:11 PM
Originally posted by CROWBAR
Hey, get all the dick ya want! Rent a porn


:D ;) Simple answer, Crowbar Baby! And a confirmation of my 'fear of dick' theory..........


BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

DeadOrAlive
11-19-2004, 09:04 PM
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CROWBAR
11-20-2004, 03:52 PM
Originally posted by Switch84
:D ;) Simple answer, Crowbar Baby! And a confirmation of my 'fear of dick' theory..........


BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

I got sumthin' for you baybee!!:bananna:

DeadOrAlive
11-21-2004, 01:49 AM
That's the Dave I know!!

Switch84
11-21-2004, 01:53 AM
:tits: :lol: LOL! That was SWEET, Crowbar!


I'm sooo glad he got rid of the shitty bleached blond 'do! (But his bod is to DIE FOR!)


NUTHIN BUT YEAH!

Snow Ho
11-23-2004, 01:25 PM
Originally posted by Switch84
:confused: The 'fear of dick' is due to the fact that we Grrls like it and our significant others are afraid of not 'measuring up'.


I don't understand the big appeal of Chippendales back in the day;they never did the 'Full Monty'. Male strip joints in Canada does. There's one in Windsor I and my grrlfriends went to alot, and it was WILD!!! Those guys were HOT!

Hmmm, a hot, sexy naked man.......what woman wouldn't like to see that on film (and onstage?)


Cum on, Davy Baby..........GET NAKED!!!!!



Nuthin' but YEAH!!!!!


me either. but they were always too clean cut for me anyway. i hope this trend continues. and dave is a tease!

BITEYOASS
11-23-2004, 05:37 PM
Speaking of Colin Farrel, what was the name of that movie in which Keifer Sutherland holds Farrel hostage in a phone booth with his sniper rifle from a distance of over 500 meters. I laughed my ass off at watching Colin whine like a little pussy. :D

Switch84
11-23-2004, 10:45 PM
Originally posted by BITEYOASS
Speaking of Colin Farrel, what was the name of that movie in which Keifer Sutherland holds Farrel hostage in a phone booth with his sniper rifle from a distance of over 500 meters. I laughed my ass off at watching Colin whine like a little pussy. :D


:o I think it was called "Phone Booth". I could be wrong....

diamondsgirl
11-23-2004, 10:47 PM
yes it was...

Switch84
11-23-2004, 10:47 PM
Originally posted by Snow Ho
Dave is a tease!


:D :p Ain't that the truth!

Snow Ho
11-24-2004, 12:59 PM
that is so my avatar!