Posted on 10/06/2020 2:01:45 PM PDT by Stravinsky
Amazon may be adding some unexpected nudity to Middle-earth in its upcoming Lord of the Rings television series. The massive project resumed filming in New Zealand in September after a pandemic-induced halt. Now a casting call has gone out for various actors, including those "comfortable with nudity." The casting call from the BGT talent agency caught the eye of Lord of the Rings fansite TheOneRing.net. It reads, "Comfortable with Nudity? Up to $500 per day. Use reference NUDE. We need Nude people based in Auckland - age 18 plus, all shapes and sizes (Intimacy guidelines will always be followed on set)." The production also has an intimacy coordinator on its team, suggesting the series could include sex scenes.
This listing has some fans worrying that the Amazon show may be taking inspiration from HBO's hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, which never shied away from sexual content. That fit in with George R.R. Martin's lurid, dark, low fantasy world. It'd be less at home in the chaste, high-fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Fans likely won't know for sure until the series finally debuts.
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Well-Sam Gamgee and Rosie Cotton had to get kids somehow
We finally get to see female dwarves?
And their hair?
“But the FR threads about them draw you in”
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Nah, it’s like Playboy mag, people only check them out for the articles.
Short of that, I would propose the "Leadership by Example Code in Cinema Act." This would establish the principle that people in a position of authority in the performance arts should not require, bully or bribe employees to do anything that they would not do themselves. If a film features nudity and graphic simulated sex, so be it ... but the director, producer, casting director, etc. should have to shoot the scene as well, with exactly the same parameters as the actors. This would be shown as a short immediately following the real movie. This principle should be followed up the chain of command right through the corporate parent -- and yes, this means YOU, AT&T, Comcast, Sony, Netflix and Disney. The CEO has to do it too. Assuming a member of the opposite sex is involved, the big corporate boards can offer up some of their female board members to participate. The chief legal officer and head of HR should be in the mix as well. If the suits want to run a porn operation, the suits should strip off too. The producer and director of the film should always have to do it; the rest can draw straws and do a rotation.
The pornification of Hollywood movies would end the moment the women sitting on corporate boards were told they had to set the example.
All shorts involving senior corporate execs and board members should also be distributed to all shareholders and be reviewed at annual stockholders meetings, the topic being "corporate ethics and our leadership responsibilities."
If that’s the case, they definitely must include Dwarves (midgets).
Why do 10 yo need sex scenes? This is just evil. Tolkien would NOT approve.
LOTR needs sex scenes like I need a full-sized pair of moose antlers growing out of my skull.
Good idea! As long as Bill Clinton or Harvey Weinstein are not on any of these boards.
The ears are cute, yet weird. On the other hand, she's a redhead version of Eddie Munster.
Evangeline Lilly...
I am continually amazed at the stupidity of people. I have yet to see a streaming “original series” that is anything but utter dreck. What kind of moron watches it? And what fool keeps going back thinking, “it will be different this time”?
It’s all at the level of an undergraduate theater arts project that earned a D-.
These shoots would of course be done tastefully and respectfully, with corporate CEO's and board members getting cock socks and tiny, stick-on vaginal shields just like their employees do. And if fellatio is required, they would only have to perform with a prosthesis. They would be expected to fake orgasms just like the actors, though realistically they couldn't be held to as high a standard. An intimacy coordinator would be available to choreograph every grope. This is really no different from a corporate CEO doing a stint from time to time behind the counter at Hertz or McDonalds. Leadership by example is important.
I glanced at the corporate leadership of several of the parent companies just out of curiosity. A number of the female board members and senior execs are quite attractive. There might even be a theatrical market for their short films. This is untapped profit potential that I'm surprised the companies haven't already exploited, inasmuch as they are already in the sex business. The women should be flattered and excited to have the opportunity; after all, they parrot the party line about respecting their actresses, and I'm sure they mean what they say.
I’m gonna puke.
Ridiculous. This is just being done for the sake of adding those scenes in. There wasn’t even any hint of sex in the books.
I couldn’t watch Amazon’s series of Philip K. Dick
stories because they were highly sexualized.
Game of Thrones wannabe
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Now elves, hobbits, and orcs in a three way.
Agree.
What a disgrace. Not a surprise, but still a disgrace. They put porn in just about everything these days.
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