cough Iraq cough Iran cough Syria cough North Korea cough Afghanistan cough Pakistan cough Saudi Arabia

Name another country where they ban or age limit ONLY sex but severe violence is okay.
Even Germany who bans certain words and violence accepts sex.
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^Right, because America is the only country with conservative attitudes toward nudity and sex. C'mon

American eh?
What's with you sick people? (only aimed to the loser americans who finds sex/naked bodies to be a bad thing)
You have no issues with violence, but you find a naked woman body sick????
seek help, stats.
Another one of you retards made a topc on hostel 2 if there was any nudity. if not then their 10 year old could watch the movie
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I have no problem with nudity but a 12 for a movie with high criticism of modern society and with scenes involving a father trying to kill his son, two suicide and the cynicism of the world are something completely different. How can you for one second say that nudity is worse for a child than this? The nudity in this film wasn't even sexual.
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Oh yes, what a mature comment. Nudity is shown in a very natural way in this movie, there are no sex scenes. I think the rating is fair. Now, tell me: would violence be 12 material?? Would you rather have your 7 yr-old brother watch "Hostel" instead?
"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)

was it a 12 due to nudity? I'd allow a kid of any age to see the nudity. To me the suicide scene was more likely to lead to a 12 certificate.

I thought that the nature of the nudity was the entire point. It's been a little while since i saw the movie, but I quite well remember the distinction between her nude swimming being presented as her accepting life in the outback and the picnic scene in which the woman in a skirt is subject to hopeful glances from the men every time she moves her leg. I'm not necessarily defending the cinematic practice of evoking emotion just to get us to question ourselves for reacting as we do, as I frequently find it a bit pretentious on the filmmaker's part, but I do think that's what this movie was doing.

I think the meaning of the certificate has changed over time. 'PG' denotes 'parental guidance' and taken at its most literal interpretation most films fall within the remit of parental guidance. However it's treated as a 'U' these days whereas U itself is treated primarily as a children's certificate.

I have to admit I was a bit surprised to learn that Walkabout got a PG rating considering the full frontal nudity. But the fact that it was natural and not in a sexual or exploitive nature was probably the basis for which it won the appeal. Still, I bet this raised quite a few eyebrows at the time.
Actually, 1971 was an odd year for movie ratings. Other PG-rated movies released that year that had nudity include Billy Jack and The Vanishing Point. And then there was the Dario Argento movie Cat O' Nine Tails which not only had a topless Catherine Spaak but also some graphic violence, which makes the original PG rating all the more questionable.

Now you've done it. You've exposed a 7 year old boy to nudity. Way to go. You just created the next Hitler, happy?
I like the nudity, at least the female nudity. Thank God for telephoto lenses.

If it had gun fights, it would have been appropriate, but HOLY DAMN, NUDITY!!! OH my GAAWWWWWWWD!!!

Notice the aboriginal women who find the car. They are topless, a natural state in many cultures. She tries to hide her breasts from the boy, but that means nothing to him. She is skinny dipping and he is working. Sex for him is procreation. He has not time to skinny dip, except at the end, and that is fantasy or maybe even heaven without all our hangups about nudity.

Off the top of my head here, to add to the above list, are a few more UK PG movies with nudity:
(looks towards own video/dvd collection)
La Rayon Vert - plently of moderate nudity (ie topless bathers) during a scene on a beach
Le Beau Mariage - brief full-frontal female who is also seen in from the back while taking a shower
My Life As a Dog - brief female full-frontal
Amadeus - brief male full-frontal
Jaberwocky - brief full-frontal female (same woman also seen topless and "from behind"), also features Michael Palin's arse (on the back of the video sleeve LOL!)
Orlando - moderate (and essential to plot) full-frontal female
Cinema Paradiso (original cut) - brief topless female (not to mention a shot of some young men in the cinema obviously masturbating over Brigette Bardot)
From Russia With Love - brief shot of naked woman getting into Bond's bed
Carry On Behind - prolonged "from behind" shot of embarrased naked female exposed when shower cubicle door falls off, earlier in the movie a cine film of a topless dancer is accidently shown at an educational lecture. "Carry On Behind" also features a brief shot of Kenneth William's behind)
Carry On Nurse - naked woman in bath is repeatedly disturbed by people climbing in through her bathroom window
Carry On Abroad - Barbara Windsor is seen naked in the shower
Carry On Camping - opening scene features 2 couples watching a movie about a nudist colony (I recognise the movie but can't name it) with some added close-up footage of a topless woman "discovering" the camp
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - naked woman seen from behind and soon after lounging in a hammock, plus a blatant Uma Thurman nipple slip
Munchhausen - m-a-n-y topless woman seen during the harem scene (and this was made in 1943 LOL)
The Charge of the Light Brigade - topless woman in bathhouse
Pop Scene (R.E.M. video collection) - "Pop Song '89" features 3 topless female dancers
Big Fish - brief very moderate female nudity and shot of Danny DeVito's arse
I am sure there are more, even in my collection (just spotted my Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski DVD boxset, so you can add "Fitzcaraldo" and "Cobra Verde" to the list)
It's worth noting that during the 80's both "Carry On Camping" and "Carry On Behind" where regularly shown uncut on the BBC as Saturday afternoon filler.
Also, the "Universal" rated movie "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" features a prolonged nude bathing scene featuring the 2 female leads.
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'PG' films with some nudity
Man with a Golden Gun
(1974) - brief
Kramer vs Kramer
(1979) - moderate
A Room with a View
(1985) - 'brief' nudity yeah right.
Manon des Sources
(1986) - brief
The Fifth Element
(1997) - brief
These are just those I've seen. Male nudity is normally 'worse' and so some films with the same amount of male nudity in one film as female nudity in another film are often rated higher for some reason.
The BBFC - nudity in films rated '12'
Nudity is allowed, but in a sexual context must be brief and discreet.
Spare a talent for an old ex-leper?

Yes, here we are in 2007 and people still get upset and offended by seeing other humans with no clothes on.
Strangely enough we are born into this world naked, yet there is a rush to cover up and never allow clothes to come off again.
In reality, the only two valid reasons for wearing clothes are:

1. Warmth
2. Protection
   If it is warm enough and we don't need protection, we don't need clothes on!
   Just like this bizarre need to put clothes on in order to get them wet - as in swimming. Why do it? Do you put clothes on to take a shower or a bath?
   Swimming naked is the most natural thing to do, and this movie is no exception in that respect.
   Putting clothes on to swim is like some freudian extension of needing clothes on when it's warm.
   A strange behaviour, sadly exhibited by a large percentage of society.
   As for nudity not being suitable for children, it's not the kids that have a problem with it. It's the parents with the hangups that "think" that their kids are going to be traumatised for life if they happen to see a bare bum or some titties.
   Most kids have no issue with nudity - why would they? After all, it's not until a parent with hangups teaches them that there is something wrong and shameful about the human body that a child begins to think otherwise.
   I say we need more movies that show a natural and simple way of life!

The nudity in the film was lovely, I thought. I don't worry too much about nudity of this kind. You see it very rarely anywayusually nudity in film is highly sexualized and moreover is rarely involving what I'd call emotionally healthy situations.

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And I can confirm that Jenny was 16 when Walkabout was filmed as I've discussed it with her. The desert sequences were filmed Aug-Dec 1969 and her birthday is definitely 20 Dec 1952.

Walkabout was shot in 1969 just before she filmed "the Railway Children" (the movie version) in 1969, only for British Lion show their usual respect for quality product ("the Wickerman" comes to mind) and actualy shelve it for 2 years.
If Jenny's birth date, as stated here on IMDB, is 20th December 1952 then that would almost certainly make her 16 when "Walkabout" was shot, which I feel fits in with her appearance as I would say she looks 15/16.
Thanks for bringing the point up, I've never really thought about it enough to actualy check how old she was in this film, but now I have.
"I think you're a load of old crap too, Mr Mulligan."

Jesus Christ! Check the filming date under 'Business' - it says August 1969. So if you "DO THE MATH" then she was 16. She even confirms this on the Criterion DVD in which she comments that filming clashed with her O-Levels - exams you take in the UK when you are 16. I have even heard her confirm her age at the time of filming in her own words in an interview. Since she was born in December 1952 then she was only just 18 when it premiered, so you even do your sums wrong anyway.

I agree; Jenny is very pretty at this age. But, when you do the math (her birth 1952, movie date 1971), she was 19 when this film apparently came out. I'd say it's safe to assume that she was probably 18 or 19 when it was filmed, unless there's something I don't know!

An-even-quick re-reading of yr original post,made me wonder how could have i misinterpeted yr words back then, Bill Haydon:You are absolutely right,u never said this was a sex scene,and im sorry i was wrong to correct u
However,especially since english isn't my native language,i think if i punctuate according to the book or not,isnt an imdb issue-its rather my own business and sure as hell isnt f yours.Respectively,it isnt yours to tell me i should learn to read,since like i stated it was merely an unfortunate happening,to have misread yr post-something tht im sure happens to everybody now and then.
Oh and as far as comprehension goes,up yours.
(cause i DID comprehend that ur a piece of u know what,for callin ppl cretins, without actually havin been called a name in the first place)
Blow it out yr a.s.s and have a happy thanksgiving.