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This is the podcast of the movie, TV and genre website www.shadowlocked.com, featuring debate among our writers and guests, as well as occasional interviews. It may get silly, it may get serious...
Duration: 26:24 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 128 KBPS - Frequency: 48000 HZ
Sex and Nudity in American movies
NYC Shadowlocked contributor Aaron Knier and London-based site editor Martin Anderson discuss the thorny issue of the disparity between American and European attitudes to screen nudity and sex. Quite what Scarlett Johansson, Paul Giamatti and Brad Pitt have to do with it will become apparent.
How big a threat is the American dick on screen (excluding the issues of IMAX or 3D!). Should David Fincher have turned down Scarlett Johansson for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo despite a killer audition simply because of her physique? Are big breasts pornographic by nature? And what are the politics of on-screen male genitalia?
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INDEX
'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' changes the rules. - 0.16
'Romancing The Stone' and the lax ratings of the early 1980s. - 0.42
'Saving Private Ryan' and the acceptability of context. - 1.18
The Brits hate violence [onscreen] , the Americans hate sex [onscreen]. - 1.49
'Afraid of a titty' - the American schism between desire and sexual censorship. - 2.00
Hollywood not catching up to the internet. - 2.30
Executive meetings about nipples. - 3.08
'The Modesty bed sheet' - No real American Sexual Life in American movies. - 3.25
Non-justified sex distracting for directors and screenwriters.- 4.27
Could audiences ever get used to nudity?- 5.18
The European Way! - 5.52
No pain no gain - Aaron's 100-year plan. - 6.15
Jessica Alba's CGI nudity - 7.07
Screen nudity: what Emma Watson said and what Scarlett Johansson did. - 7.25
Are large breasts 'pornographic' and smaller ones 'stylish' and 'acceptable' in mainstream cinema nudity? - 8.09
The unacceptable face (?) of on-screen male genitalia - 12.21
'Shame', and Michael Fassbender's penis costing him an Academy Award?- 13.15
American fears of 'The Other' in the form of on-screen male genitalia- 13.42
Male paranoia and penis-envy - 14.38
Aaron's example: Paul Giamatti, Brad Pitt and their fictitious dicks - 14.46
The desire to not offend and European cinema's reaction to WWII- 15.56
If America want nudity/sex in movies in the internet age - why? - 18.00
The thrust ban (except on Showtime, etc)- 18.20
'Original sin' with Angelina Jolie + 'Monster's Ball' and 'Don't Look Now'19.15
The sex scene in 'Watchmen' and 'stunt sex' - 23.14
The 'gratuitous' factor- 24.21
The 13 years between the collapse of the Hayes Code and the start of the MPAA - 25.05
DownloadKeywords: movies,podcasts,sexuality