No more 'sexy time'
Caught up with an old favorite on DVD yesterday, Brian De Palma's "Dressed to Kill." It proved both better and worse than my memories, but what struck me the most was its sensuality. I felt almost shy watching it, as if I hadn't seen such sequences in films in such a long time. And maybe I haven't. Sexual scenes in mainstream films seem on the wane, if anecdotal memory serves. But in the 1980s ("Dressed to Kill" came out in 1980) such films were far more common - think "Sea of Love," "Nine 1/2 Weeks" and "Fatal Attraction." It begs the question "why?" given we live in a far more sexual culture than ever before ...
posted by Toto @ 8:21 AM
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Oh, I beg to differ on our sexual acceptance. This is an era of increasing FCC hamfisted censorship ... heck, there's a move afoot to censor cable and satellite ... witness the furor over "Buster" ...
I'm frankly not surprised at Hollywood's prudish revolution. You can get away with anything by shouting "it's for the children."
It's okay to whack someone's head off, that will effectively desensitize us to more Iraq war deaths. But sex on the screen? Why that right there ... folks, you got trouble, right here in River City.
I respectfully disagree, oh toenail-less one. Our music is far more sexual than ever before. Our tv programming -- the same. Advertising? yup. And you don't have to look far online to see a deluge of sexual material. But there must be some reasons why sex on the screen is a no-no.
The government doesn't have any power -- yet -- over radio, except on broadcast ....
But where the government does have some sway, FCC and through pressure over Motion Picture Assn, it exerts it heavily ... They ran Howard Sturn and Bubba the Love Sponge right into satellite ...
I think we're disagreeing on what a certain segment will accept (music buyers, satellite consumers) vs. what Fox-America will allow, FCC, MPA ... not the proliferation of "uncensored" DVD versions of movies. They were clearly censored in Hwood, but for the DVD market they're recut ...
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