Same here. Perfect example of sex scenes that are distracting and mess with the flow of the story.
>>Perfect example of sex scenes that are distracting and mess with the flow of the story.
Russ Meyer was the director who paved the way for nudity in movies in America. His early “nudie cuties” in the 50s are like longer form versions of Benny Hill sketches (the character(s) could see but not touch the ‘living pin-up’).
Before Russ’ landmark lawsuits, nudity was largely confined to nudist camp ‘documentaries’ (nudge nudge wink wink). He paved the way for nudity for the sake of nudity (in adults only films, no genitalia, and no penetration).
He said that hardcore films ruined “the game” (so did David Friedman, who’d worked in promotions for the major studios before going off as one of the producers/distributors/etc for the other ‘independent’ cinema). Their reasons were that they could count on audiences (mostly male) returning next week if they thought they might see something next time that they didn’t see this week. Also Russ said that the mechanics of hardcore sex took the audience out of involvement/interest in the story.
Both eventually made films with explicit sex but largely retired from making films by the early 70s. David Friedman was the salesman who came up with “XXX”. It was an ad campaign “too much sex for just one X”. It wasn’t any kind of review board that came up with it, it was a con.