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

Sonia Abecassis (sabecass@capgemini.fr)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:51:29 +0100 Hi everyone ,
Reading this mail made me wonder whether this puritanism was related to t=
he
Monicagate ?
Cheers from Paris
Sonia

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De : Enrique Bird <ebird@gmgroup.com>
=C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date : mardi 29 septembre 1998 23:39
Objet : RE: RARA-AVIS: Harb-boiled females? (flick)

>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-----
>> From: MWhite8482@aol.com [SMTP:MWhite8482@aol.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 1998 10:31 PM
>> To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>> 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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