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It’s been a quarter-century since nudity was a central feature - and dramatic plot point - of what was then the most widely popular Hollywood film in decades: “ Titanic.” Bared skin in a similar manner in a top blockbuster in 2023 or any other recent year seems unlikely. Nudity is most frequently used in mainstream entertainment as a punchline.
James Cameron Realized He Botched ‘Titanic’ Oscars Speech After Seeing Warren Beatty’s FaceĪt times, it can be difficult write about onscreen nudity in anything but jokey terms, especially since nudity has become a fixture of comedy. Are we somehow invading their privacy? Are they invading ours? What should we feel about this parasocial interaction, particularly when it is presented in an overtly sexualized context? So when nudity enters the (literal) picture, it complicates the relationship between viewer and viewed. It’s “content” that deserves an “advisory,” or something akin to “porn,” however the Supreme Court is classifying that these days.Īs many have noted, the very nature of the actor’s job demands the audience look at them.
But the nude scene in movies is rarely discussed alongside a Canova marble statue or Manet’s “Olympia.” Movies blur the boundaries between “real life” and artistic indirection so thoroughly that people discuss nude scenes in movies as practically everything but art. The history of painting and sculpture is full of nude portraiture, which is regularly and comfortably classified as art. That line from Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” sums up a lot of feelings people seem to have about nudity in film.
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