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

David White (dpwhite@eden.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:23:14 -0400 (EDT) Listen it's really hard to see, but the movie has shown everything else so
I was looking... (gee I'm embaressed) I don't think it was supposed to be
shown,b ut you can see that the bacon man is pretty well hugn.......

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Enrique Bird wrote:

> 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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