Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Dalton (A) on February 11, 2007 at 20:56:01

In Reply to: This axiom: when cars wreck, cars blow up. posted by Harmonia on February 11, 2007 at 18:23:49:

... must inevitably explode. It's a Hollywood law, apparently.

While I agree with you that cars explode too often, what's even worse is that lately the special effects guys have found a way to propel stationary vehicles straight up into the air 20 or 30 feet as they explode. Since when does that happen in real life?

As far as male vs. female nudity is concerned, the rule (at least in puerile Hollywood) seems to be that displays of female nudity are to be almost exclusively sexually-charged images of very attractive and fit female specimens and male nudity is almost exclusively used in comic or humiliating situations involving unattractive, grotesquely obese, or otherwise unfit male specimens. The exception to this rule seems to be that naked or scantily-clad males that women would normally find physically attractive are presented as homosexual.

Since American audiences have been conditioned this way, Hollywood rarely dares to show male nudity in any intimate scene that is meant to be taken seriously because it becomes a distraction. Not that I want to see more male nudity, mind you. But I can understand how many women resent the double standard (even if they don't recognize as well that constantly treating male nudity as humiliation or a joke could be considered just as much of an insult, directed toward men).