Nude scenes…
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Masterprecious-1 — 21 years ago(September 15, 2004 06:06 PM)
Gee Mr Movie Guy 2004, you sure do know yourself pretty good. I mean that with all sincerity. Your perception of things have shaped your very "no gray area" attitude. There is nothing wrong with that. But is it not still "your" perception ? I sort of like this quip. "Who is anyone to say what was going on in the directors mind while filming or contemplating the scene". What his or her intentions or implications were is anyones guess. So what were left with is our own perception or opinion of what direction of reasoning was being portrayed. If you were the producer or director of the film, would you not have done it differently. Your replies in this forum scream a definate yes. And another person would yet again do the movie in a different way. In closing I will admittedly say that some of my written content here is opinionated. The truth known by all is that there is nothing factual in an opinion. That is the only fact that I can bring to a forum full of opinions.
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Eldermount — 21 years ago(October 13, 2004 03:47 PM)
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and I heard she was fourteen, I don't know where you got seventeen
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Well, if you can handle a little math, you'll see that the movie came out in 1971, and according to the IMDB database (you know this website you're posting on) Jenny Agutter was born in December of 1952. So, she was at least 18 when this movie came out.
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casiocasanova-1 — 20 years ago(December 17, 2005 02:41 PM)
funny how no one opposing these nude scenes mentions anything about the nudity of the aboriginal people. small children, grown women, grown men all clad in next to nothing expressing curiosity about the charred automobile.
while i'm not making accusations, i can't help but believe it has something to do with the fact that in our culture, and most others, tubby unwashed female aboriginees aren't exactly an object of desire. they don't exactly sell national geographic in porn shops. nobody here seems to have a problem with it.
however, a sixteen year old white girl swims in a lake and you've got a message board debate that's lasted over a year.
obviously, if you are offended by the young girl's nudity, there's something in your mind that fired off warnings that you're watching something that could be potentially sexually arousing, and not so much that you're looking at unclothed bodies. otherwise, i would think the naked natives would cause just as much of a stink. -
phatkronikblunt — 21 years ago(January 10, 2005 09:36 PM)
Have you got an explanation of why the camera needs to hone in on a teenage girl's ass while she's swimming?
Because that is the gaze of the young boy watching her, dumbass!
Just because you cant look at a young girl naked without getting a boner and you hate yourself for it, dont go around ruining good films for the rest of us. -
k_vaughan3 — 21 years ago(February 25, 2005 07:20 AM)
Calling yourself Mr_Movie_Guy_2004 then of course you the knowledge to tell us where you found the information to prove that Jenny was 14 in the movie?
But then again would God be happy when he knows you are spewing the words "naive pricks" and I guess you never ever in your life ever seem a nude screen hold on you must have, didn't you watch Walkabout to come up with these comments? -
psychicaudio — 21 years ago(August 17, 2004 10:14 PM)
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Unicorn-9 — 21 years ago(August 01, 2004 04:00 PM)
Well, it is a Jenny Agutter movie: I can't even think of one where she kept all her clothes on for the entire movie even in 'The Railway Children' I seem to remember her waving her knickers at a train to try to get it to stop.
As for the movie itself, for a story that's trying to contrast modern life with 'natural' living for an aborigine, it's hardly surprising that some nudity is involved. I think the puritanical responses to the nudity fully support the movie in that sense, showing just how far modern society has gone from that natural state. -
andrew-nunn — 21 years ago(August 18, 2004 08:08 AM)
I thought the film was very well photographed, with good cast-setting and scenes. The use of light was tremendous, and portrayed perfectly the sense of heat and desolation of the outback. The contrast between "civilisations" was well demonstrated, emphasising the inadequacy of today's society in surviving in the harsh realities of the scrub land.
Oh, and it was great to see Jenny with her kit off! What a body. Always fancied her!
Enjoyed the film. Scenes were breathtaking. The native Australian was cast brilliantly. Good story line. Jenny was amazing.
Art? What's that? I'll tell you what that is guys, its a room with a pile of bricks in one corner, that some arty-farty idiot says "I can see how the artist expresses himself, one can see what was in his mind when blah, blah, blah".
Crap! Absolute bollocks. I tell you what art is guys. Its Constable, it's Rembrandt, its Hieronymus Bosch. -
vbru — 21 years ago(February 27, 2005 05:32 PM)
The scene where Jenny Agutter goes swimming is an exact re-creation of a scene in the original novel. In the novel, she goes swimming after the boys leave to go hunting. The boy and girl in the novel are age 13 and 8, and they gradually shed their clothes as they become more accepting of living in the wild.
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cannescrwrtr — 20 years ago(March 14, 2006 10:12 AM)
Well almost correct. Swimming unclothed is natural for children, (except in the 'western' world of the past 25 years), but in the novel the girl's state of undress is due to an encounter with a koala. The 8-year-old boy decided early in the story (in the novel), that clothing in the outback was senseless and perhaps for a small boy it would be. hence his nudity was more natural, as author James Vance Marshall clearly states in the excellent novel. The same is effective for the aborigine teen.
I don't understand the debate over nudity.. because this is more natural than the ridiculous scene of violence and suicide being added to the beginning of this film, which has nothing at all to do with the great novel from which the story is adapted.
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kwowen — 21 years ago(October 02, 2004 12:13 PM)
Just found this site. I too am a Jenny Agutter fan. Well more than that I suppose.
Nude scenes in Walkabout, what was so wrong with them?
My father owned a cinema in West Wales (Llandovery) and as a boy of 12 I remember the film when it was first released. I had been a J.A. fan since she appeared in the Railway Children which my father also showed at the cinema. Being impressionable at that age I fell in love with Jenny how could you not do so. That was nothing more than true love, a boyish crush maybe but love none the less. Knowing that i would most likely never meet the girl who i so admired, and still do. At 44 i find the film and the closing scene most beautiful and brings back fond memories when, as a lad in puberty, I fell for what was the most beautiful thing in the world to me. I have just bought on ebay a copy of the film score (Walkabout) and the memories just came flooding back. I try and watch the film every time it is on the small screen.
She will always be in my heart and to those people who criticse the film for the nude scenes they do not understand and never will.
Kenny:) -
vbru — 21 years ago(January 16, 2005 04:51 PM)
Very well said Kenny! When I was a teenager back in the 70's Walkabout was one of those films that was shown often on Sunday afternoons on TV. Being an American, I was always fascinated by the beauty of Australia and the mystical nature of the film and would watch it everytime it was on to try to get a better understading of what it was about. The final scene in Walkabout with Jenny day dreaming is one of the most beautiful and heartfelt endings of all time. A film about youth that is a memorable part of my own youth, and causes me to reflect back on "the happy highways where I went, and cannot come again."
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Fedorevsky — 16 years ago(November 11, 2009 09:43 AM)
"Just found this site. I too am a Jenny Agutter fan. Well more than that I suppose.
Nude scenes in Walkabout, what was so wrong with them?
My father owned a cinema in West Wales (Llandovery) and as a boy of 12 I remember the film when it was first released. I had been a J.A. fan since she appeared in the Railway Children which my father also showed at the cinema. Being impressionable at that age I fell in love with Jenny how could you not do so. That was nothing more than true love, a boyish crush maybe but love none the less. Knowing that i would most likely never meet the girl who i so admired, and still do. At 44 i find the film and the closing scene most beautiful and brings back fond memories when, as a lad in puberty, I fell for what was the most beautiful thing in the world to me. I have just bought on ebay a copy of the film score (Walkabout) and the memories just came flooding back. I try and watch the film every time it is on the small screen.
She will always be in my heart and to those people who criticse the film for the nude scenes they do not understand and never will.
Kenny:) "
That's a beautiful post Kenny and one that mirrors my own personal history with the film very well. I first watched the film as a young teenager more then ten years later than you and had the exact same reaction to it and to J.A. I also get the same nice feeling of nostalgia when watching it now at 32.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities.Virtues can be faked.Depravities are real.Kinski