This was from the next movie after Desperado:
There’s a saying worth remembering: “Hit movies will only ever tell studios one thing: ‘More like this, please.’”
Give the people what they want.
Acting is just another form of prostitution. You sell yourself for money. Hayek is a beautiful woman and was highly paid to display her body on camera. She could have chosen another career path. Her father was an oil company executive and her mother an opera singer. She can’t claim she was forced into disreputable work in order to support her starving family.
My gripe is not sex scenes in themselves, profanity and other crudities. It’s that the material goes in front of kids.
Adults have forgotten about the kids in the audience.
All ‘R’ movies should have nekkid titties, its what they All used to have.
PG is for kids, leave R alone to show the nipple, soft porn.
Bring back the 79s movies!
This was from the next movie after Desperado:
bread and circuses.....
They push the envelope nowadays, with nudity ajd profanity.
There was a time when bedroom scenes wouldn’t be shown. They might be hinted at, but not shown. An example is the movie ,”A Thousand Clowns,”,in which the woman love interest of the Jason Robards character was still there with him the next morning, but they never showed them in bed together. They didn’t explain why she was there the next morning, it was just implied she spent the night.
Or in Urban Cowboy, John Travolta went to the apartment of a lady, they had her open the door to her bedroom, and that was the end of the scene. It was pretty darn clear that they were going to go to bed together, but they didn’t show John and the lady in bed.
Cancelling sexual attraction is right up there with declaring a man is a woman. Sexual attraction is innate. It’s genetic. It’s hard wired.
But that never stopped a leftist from trying to corrupt it with their science denial...
Did Hayek cash her paycheck?
My impression is that actual nudity in mainstream hollyweird movies is way down from a few decades ago. Desperado was in the mid 90s I think? Probably just doesn’t serve the purpose it used to with on demand free porn available to almost everyone.
Freegards
Audiences
As Mark Twain’s Duke said, “If that don’t fetch ‘em, then I don’t know Arkansaw”
Try watching any movie from the 80s that’s wasn’t rated ‘G’ (general audiences) and they all had nudity and/or sex scenes.
Okay not all, but the exceptions were rare. I think the screen plays were all made ala carte and they almost always picked every items; sex scene, car chase, shoot out, fist fight, tearful confession, etc. etc. It was formulaic!
I think plots and screen plays got more sophisticated after the 90s, as long as they weren’t action movies driven by special effects. Then they were even more formulaic and predictable.
I think most Americans do not have puritanical views of the human body, although most think children should be sheltered from sexualized nutidty. The strange phenomenon that seems so ironic is that the feminist agenda on social issues are strangely cross sectional with the old social conservatives. Issues like nudity of film, or girls being pressured into sex, were once more in the social political mantle of the dan quayle ‘family values’ camp.
What a nonsense article.
She’s lying.
It’s all fake and manipulative, everything these people do with their publicists and political allies.
Manipulative propaganda and CYA all at the same time. Pretend they have a semblance of a mural center.
Go back to 1968! Up until then the Hays Code which gave guidelines for proper movie scenes.
Then the murder of Bobby Kennedy which brought about a revulsion of violence on TV, comics, movies, pulp fiction covers.
Adult TV shows, still safe for kids, dumbed down to kiddie shows. magazines changed their covers , movies on TV were butchered beyond recognition to remove “violence”.
But the movie industry got a pass when they said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system.
“Hot dog! The Hays Code is dead! If you got it film it!” and scenes were reshot adding more blood, guts, violence and rank sex scents to many movies, to get the now coveted “R” or “X” ratings.
In order to get people used to this they also began to slowly add vile cursing in more mild shows.
A movie rated “R” in 1969 would now be rated PG or PG-13.
I saw a “G” rated western in 1969. I saw it again not long back on a cable channel. This one would have been rated a heavy “R” if released in 1969. Same actors same show but more nudity.
Love (sex) scenes are placed in movies for WOMEN.
Men find them tedious and distracting, generally.
The story and/or action is far more important. Or simple, gratuitous nudity.
Don’t let this, or any other author/advocate tell you otherwise.
>>actress Salma Hayek opened up about a traumatic experience on the set of her breakout film, Desperado. After Hayek went through six auditions and a screen test, securing her role as the female lead, the studio added something that wasn’t included in the original script—a sex scene
Blame director Robert Rodriguez.
He used the casting couch and called Rose McGowan his “girlfriend” when he was promising her lead roles in movies, including Red Sonja which he never made.
Her reaction -- TOTALLY justified. Because, you know, women are important.
His reaction -- WHAT A PIG. Because, you know, men are pigs.
It's the 21st century. Let's stop with the double standards. It should be OK for me to say that HE handled it well, and SHE acted inappropriately.
And if I can't say that? Maybe she would be a housewife and give up this silly notion of having a job. Get me a sammich.