<![CDATA[Sadly, if this was made today….]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Walkabout

jk90us — 11 years ago(May 04, 2014 12:09 PM)

Because of the way society has devolved to draconian, small-minded and paranoid attitudes toward nudity (one of THE most natural things on Earth), if someone made a film like this today (with a naked 16yo girl and 7yo boy) they'd rush the director off to jail for being a pedophile, especially in the USA.
jk90

38 of the last 44 Best Actress Oscar winners have been nude in films.
See how that works?

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In the UK you can show nudity below 16 with a parent's blessing. Keira Knightly was only 15 when she did The Hole, which incidentally also stars Thora Birch.
Not sure what that says about Keira's mum..
Ya Kirk-loving Spocksucker!

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Nudity is not the same as sex. If it were, they certainly wouldn't have naked babies in diaper ads on highway billboards.
The nudity that seems to stick in people's craw though involves teenage girls who are not yet 18 becauseunlike babies or 7-year-old boysthey are likely to "elicit lust" in a lot of people. However, girls that age aren't well-known for wearing a lot of clothes anyway, so if you're overly worried about them "eliciting lust", then you should probably insist they wear burkas in public.
Moreover, 18-year-old girls can appear in a hardcore porn movies where they get gang-banged in the butt with an ATM/bukakke chaser, so should people really be THAT upset if a girl a year or two younger does a completely innocuous nude scene? Sure, guys can have sick fantasies about an underage girl they see nude, but couldn't they even more easily pretend the 18 year old doing actually disgusting things in an XXX porn movie is a couple years younger? And wouldn't just about anyone prefer their 16 or 17-year-old daughter do innocent nudity in serious drama/art film like this as opposed to their 18-year-old daughter doing hardcore porn?
People are too dirty-minded about nudity and way too hung-up on the number 18.

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In the UK you can show nudity if you are over 16 years of age.
The 7 year old boy was more natural nudity and he was also the director's son.
Its that man again!!

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Oh sorry my mistake, you're right

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Sorry but she was only 16 - it was filmed in 1969.

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You're right. She was 19 though

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Does 1999 count as recent?
Because Thora Birch had not turned 18 when she showed her breasts in
American Beauty
.

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You are being a little too cynical and jaded. There have been OTHER filmS to show child nudity NATURALLY.
Not recently. And not in the USA. And not with nude teen girls under 18.
jk90

38 of the last 44 Best Actress Oscar winners have been nude in films.
See how that works?

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You are being a little too cynical and jaded. There have been OTHER filmS to show child nudity NATURALLY.

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