RE: RARA-AVIS: Harb-boiled females? (flick)

Enrique Bird (ebird@gmgroup.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:36:24 -0400 Dave:

Hi, my name is Enrique and am new to this although an old fan.

When you say "Kevin Bacon frontal nude", do you mean as in his genital
area in sight or a la Kevin Costner as Robin Hood? I discussed this
theme with a group of friends and insisted there is no mainstream
American or British movie with male frontal nudity. Some said that Basic
Instinct and a Bruce Willis movie were supposed to have this. As I do
not like nudity of any type, male or female, in a movie, I could not
disprove this. Some friend who watched both after this said that those 2
movies did not really have frontal male nudity.

I had the unpleasant experience of watching a movie with repeated male
frontal nudity over 24 years ago, in France. I do not remember the title
or director, because of the disgust it caused, although it was French. I
do remember seeing both a nude and excited man at the beginning who
caused his wife or lover or something to scream when he took off his
boxers and a woman, I think the villainess, sitting on a chair,
inserting her hand inside a standing man's fly and playing with his
uncircuncised you-know-what. It was not a directly sexual scene. The
other one was one of unpleasant violence which I do not recall clearly
involving a naked man and woman in some hay (I think) and the woman
cutting his belly open with a knife; he first laughs and then screams as
he is dying. My friends (all male) seemed to enjoy the movies; I was
most embarassed and helpless, as in not knowing what to do or how to
exit. I learned never to go to the movies in Europe without knowing
specifics about what I will watch; what they consider "art" is very
differente from what I do.

Enrique

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 1998 10:31 PM
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Harb-boiled females? (flick)
>
> I just saw a movie with a pretty hard-boiled female in it...
> Definitely a noir
> choice on my list. Try Neve Campbell's "Wild Things." A complicated
> movie...
> Very hard-boiled, and very interesting... have to say though, the
> Kevin Bacon
> frontal nude was a bit much... Other than that I don't want to give
> too much
> away on the movie, but check it out, rent it... I'd be happy to chit
> chat with
> anyone who has seen it, though....
>
>
> -Dave
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