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That's a different point. People don't show "normal" sex in movies for the same reasons they don't show people eating, going to the toilet and that sort of stuff.
People eat in movies all the time. Hitting the toilet, no. Guys don’t think about going to the toilet every few minutes for the majority of adulthood. People’s hormonal drives don’t push them into social near-life decisions for other sorts of stuff besides sex.
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I don't think the discussion is around "art", considering the examples given in the article. It's mostly about mass media.
Ok, so they should have asked "What constitutes 'necessary' in entertainment?" So what? The new question with the approved honest accurate words, not like that original agenda'd deceptive one, still stands.
I think the difference is that "What constitutes necessary in art?" is pretty much a closed debate, as it's related to the nature of art, while for entertainment it's a bit different, as it's often (at least in that case it is) made for mass consumption. Since it's made for mass consumption, you can more easily argue about their moral responsibilities than with "art".
> The new question with the approved honest accurate words, not like that original agenda'd deceptive one, still stands.
It does, and I don't have a good answer to it.
They've moved to TV shows... Hard to watch any (American) Netflix series without an unnecessary sex scene every 6-8 minutes.
I don't see too much nudity in Netflix shows. Which ones specifically are you thinking about? There are definitely plenty of "bra-on" sex scenes that cut away early in the act, but I don't think that's what the author is talking of.
The article touches on this, but in the past three decades movie making has been "optimized" to the point that there has been a great deal of "convergence" of the movie formula down to just a couple major themes. Either you have general audience, big budget, Marvel-type movies, or you have designated Oscar-type fare, which as of late means something extremely depressing that says how bad humans are. "Horny sex" just…
I am worried that soon they will also optimize the hell out of them - platforms like Netflix have all the data: what scene makes you pause and re-watch, what makes you stop watching, God only knows what else they are measuring.
It leaves me wondering to what extent those metrics overlap with the artistic side (whatever that is, but in this context I mean trying to express something genuine, not to please the audience).
The article touches on this, but in the past three decades movie making has been "optimized" to the point that there has been a great deal of "convergence" of the movie formula down to just a couple major themes. Either you have general audience, big budget, Marvel-type movies, or you have designated Oscar-type fare, which as of late means something extremely depressing that says how bad humans are. "Horny sex" just…
In the 2020/2021 season, the nominations included The Father about a man suffering dementia (from his perspective) and Sound of Metal about a drummer going deaf.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd_Academy_Awards
For 2019, we had the best picture nominations include Ford v Ferrari, Little Women, and 1917:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92nd_Academy_Awards
Previous to that, Bohemian Rhapsody:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_Academy_Awards
Going back one more year, Dunkirk and Lady Bird:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Academy_Awards
Lastly for this discussion, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, and La La Land:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th_Academy_Awards
I think these are good counter-examples to your claim that only two types of movies being made.
Somehow we created a society where violence is acceptable to watch but sex is not. It's okay to watch a human being realistically murder another one YET a penis appearing on screen or a penis entering a vagina/rectum is somehow a mind-blowing event we can only handle in small and censored amounts. Mostly new life come out of sex while mostly death comes out of violence.
> It's okay to watch a human being realistically murder another one Is it? Most movies are unrealistic with their plots. I wouldn't call most action movies "a human being realistically murder another one", they are stories, not real, so the violence is okay because it's not real. > Mostly new life come out of sex while mostly death comes out of violence. I think that's an oversimplification. You can use violence to p…
> You can use violence to protect people.
You can also avoid a fight by de-escalating or just walk-away which is the best option in real life but is barely portraited in movies.
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I mean he is promoting the startup, it's an investor pitch. I don't read what he's saying as being inaccurate though.
It's an obviously absurd claim.
Now obviously you're not going to be able to user Spider-Man pre-vis if you're making something like Schindler's List, but exploring and facilitating different licensing models seems absolutely worth doing.
Somehow we created a society where violence is acceptable to watch but sex is not. It's okay to watch a human being realistically murder another one YET a penis appearing on screen or a penis entering a vagina/rectum is somehow a mind-blowing event we can only handle in small and censored amounts. Mostly new life come out of sex while mostly death comes out of violence.
The violence often relates to the plot, and drives the story forward. The sex scenes generally add nothing.
It saddens me that we live in a culture in which movies showing violence (including torture and murder) are acceptable, whereas ones showing consensual, non-pornographic intercourse - aren’t. You might argue that on Netflix every second movie have a lot of sex scenes. Yes, must mostly with partial or implied nudity (think of all of these scenes with sex with bra on, waking up clothed, or L-shaped sheets). At the same…
I just remembered accidentally seeing the US version of the movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service". I was surprised that one scene was cut out - naked ass of a young woman. The scene of brutal massacre where dozens of people are killed and maimed was left there. I still do not get how this came to be. People usually talk about puritanism and such but this does not seem to explain it - why should any culture consider it desirable to watch brutality but not nudity or something sexual?