Enough Sex?
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notoriousd — 19 years ago(December 14, 2006 11:29 PM)
ya dude, that would be so f'ing cool. We need to like make rules and sh*t where like chicks in movies always had to be naked. No naked dudes though. That would be totally gay.
shakes head woah, sorry. My 13 year old self just took control and started posting. -
mattqatsi — 19 years ago(January 18, 2007 02:17 PM)
Exactly.
This is called desensitization to the female body.
The female body is amazing
Wonderful.
Beautiful.
Not a piece of meat for 14-year-olds and drunk college kids only to lust over. I say there should be more nudity in movies only if it is at least somewhat artistic. -
theodore_varengo — 19 years ago(January 21, 2007 01:04 PM)
Most of the sex was cut for the original US release which is how it got its R rating. Since the uncut version has been released I think the "R" quoted on many websites (including this one) and even on some of the home video releases is dubious; if the uncut version were resubmitted for rating it would almost certainly get a (strong) NC-17. However, the sex is also done for the most in an artistic manner and does not seem, to me, gratuitous
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elven_path_322 — 19 years ago(January 26, 2007 05:11 PM)
I thought the sex in this movie was actually very well done. It was artistic and truly integral to the plot. Bowie sees visions through his eyes and the first sex scene between him and Mary Lou is something that he longs for, intimacy, but knows he'll probably never get the chance.
Candy Clark was/is a beautiful girl. She was very beautiful in the movie. Bowie, of course looked great, although at the height of his coke use, which is definitely noticeable at parts, which only makes his portrayal of Newton all the more believeable. -
theodore_varengo — 19 years ago(January 28, 2007 08:53 PM)
I agree, elven path! I mean, it's a matter of personal preference, I guess. But I think the sex scenes in the film are very well done. They are pretty graphic even by today's standards, but a graphic sex scene can work to a film's advantage if it's done right. I thought the scenes were essential to both character and plot development, and in particular I thought the scene between Candy Clark and David Bowie during younger, happier times was beautiful and touching, while the later one with an older Candy and a more drunk and defeated Bowie illustrated how degenerated they had become. If you want to see how graphic sex can fail miserably in the context of a film that's intended to be "daring", "artful", and "intellectual", watch 9 Songs. With no plot, no point, and an extremely unlikeable (though physically attractive) female lead, that movie amounts to the world's most pretentious porno.
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X-Hal — 16 years ago(January 04, 2010 10:55 AM)
I'm afraid I must disagree with you on one point. The phrase "graphic even by today's standards." Considering that today's standards are far more puritanical and retardedly prudish than they were in the sixties and seventies and that we've gone BACK in time when it comes to acceptance of sex and nudity, well that's my point right there. People today are morons when it comes to the natural human body and the natural things you do with it. Torture and violence is all well and good, but are there BOOBS in it oh noez!!
Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.
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nedwards-1 — 18 years ago(June 23, 2007 02:32 PM)
hang on a sec, now i'm curious. i just watched a version of this film that i rented from blockbuster that was marked with an R rating. I thought it contained quite a bit of sex, but is there another uncut version with even more sex?
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CountVladDracula — 18 years ago(June 23, 2007 06:29 PM)
'hang on a sec, now i'm curious. i just watched a version of this film that i rented from blockbuster that was marked with an R rating. I thought it contained quite a bit of sex, but is there another uncut version with even more sex?'
All DVD versions are complete but any American VHS tape of The man who fell to Earth from before 1989 is cut, badly. It still has sex in it but it's missing the gun scene (you'd know what I'm talking about if you saw it) as well as scenes that were actually important to the story.
And yes, there is no sex in the novel. Betty Jo (Mary Lou in the film) tries to seduce Thomas Jerome Newton but it doesn't work in the novel. -