On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:39:02PM +0100, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Poor, Edmund W said:
the
semi-fig-leafed scene where
Jack draws his new girlfriend, are not central to the
movie. Even
though they are real crowd-pleasers, the plot would not have suffered
by
editing the car scene so that the frantically-excited couple are merely
shown getting into the car and doing some intense necking (leave
something to the imagination). And the drawing scene would have worked
just as well with PG-type fig-leafing instead of the tantalization of
"Ohmygosh, is she really showing her wobbly bits?"
In my opinion, it would have severely dented the credibility of the
director to have given in more than he did to the puritan sensibilities of
the US domestic audience. Further fig-leafing would have been as
distracting to most audiences as those disturbingly flat-chested female
centaurs in Fantasia.
You must be referring to Fantasia 2000. I seem to recall big-breasted
harpies with glowing nipples in the original Fantasia.
That aside . . . I agree that overt and visually obvious "fig-leafing"
(is this a technical term?) can be more distracting and more
objectionable than plain nudity. If (for plot-driven, thematic,
mood-enhancing, or purely aesthetic reasons) nudity is called for, it
should not be fig-leafed any more than strictly necessary to stave off
censorship and, to suit my preferences, not even that much. I'm rather
opposed to the gratuitous in creations within artistic realms, and more
fig-leafing than occurred already in Titanic would be more gratuitous
than any removal of already extant fig-leafing could have been. My
preference: Make a decision. Show it or don't. Don't play silly
buggers with seeing how much you can "get away with".
To drag this back on-topic: Use what images in articles best illustrate
the articles. Anything that doesn't enhance the quality of the article
for its informational purpose should be excluded where practical to do
so, including nudity that some people might find objectionable. Where
it does enhance the quality of the article, it should be included
without apology. I support doing the best job we can, period, and
handling strange taboos and other not strictly necessary social matters
if we have time later. Maybe that's just me, though.
This doesn't equate to any kind of statement that we shouldn't
accomodate those with more-restrictive sensibilities, where we can,
though. I'm sure there are people out there with PHP development skills
for whom a "safe search"-like functionality is important who might
consider putting in the time to work on such a thing. I would support
such an endeavor, though I might not put much of my own time into it.
. . . not that anyone asked.
Hmm. I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion. How did that
happen?
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Chad Perrin
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