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Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by Joeboy »

Alex3917 wrote: post #128
Joeboy wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an obviously absurd claim.

It literally says in the video I linked to that they're using the pre-vis to determine what the plot should be. If that's possible, then I don't see anything even remotely absurd about the idea of creating a market to license pre-vis. 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 ab…

Whatever. Black Widow was not "fully created with motion capture before a script was even written." Obviously.

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by jpindar »

jason0597 wrote: post #104
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #38

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…

>Not too sad, though, because I feel like the exact opposite has happened with TV, where the rise of streaming services has ushered in a "Cambrian Explosion" of sorts with all types of varied topics and interesting content. Can we even call it TV anymore? It's all streamed to our laptops our tablets

Sure, now TV stands for TV-style Video.

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by Zababa »

giorgioz wrote: post #127
Zababa wrote: post #99

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> 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…

Well is fairly normal to see someone being shot in a movie. That is a realistic way to die. An unrealistic way to die to me is someone saying the Avada Kedavra curse in Harry Potter. Even action movies for kids are relatively realistic in the way someone dies. Just to put things in perspective, think about the amount of blood you see in movies versus the amount of semen seen in movies. But let's skip movies for kids.…

It is realistic to die by getting shot, but most fights where people get shot that you see in movies are unrealistic, that was my point.

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by btmiller »

nicolas_t wrote: post #44
gfosco wrote: post #11

They've moved to TV shows... Hard to watch any (American) Netflix series without an unnecessary sex scene every 6-8 minutes.

Could you give an example of unnecessary sex scenes? I watch netflix shows often enough and can't think of a show that had a unnecessary sex scenes every 6-8 minutes. The one "exception" that comes to mind with a lot of sex scenes are Sex Education and Sexify but for those shows the sex scenes are hardly unnecessary given the subject matter. I'm not trolling or trying to be argumentative here, I'm genuinely trying to…

Game of Thrones, True Blood, Banshee

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by insickness »

elzbardico wrote: post #27

Maybe I am strange, but while I am a heavily sexual person IRL, I never quite got the point of those long sex scenes in movies. On the contrary, always found it gratuitous and slightly annoying.

Sex scenes annoy me too. It may be that I've seen too much porn with real sex which makes movie sex scenes feel too simulated.

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by reshie »

jason0597 wrote: post #104
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #38

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…

>Not too sad, though, because I feel like the exact opposite has happened with TV, where the rise of streaming services has ushered in a "Cambrian Explosion" of sorts with all types of varied topics and interesting content. Can we even call it TV anymore? It's all streamed to our laptops our tablets

and most tv's are computers now as well.

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by Bud »

Ancapistani wrote: post #119
Bud wrote: post #53

Right-wingers complaining about there not being enough "sex" scenes in entertainment are so pathetic. The fact is there are are MORE sex scenes now than there ever were in the 80s and 90s, it's just that they've migrated more to streaming TV series that are too sophisticated for right-wingers to be viewing them en masse. Not to mention, of course, that there's also about 100x the availability of porn now, and Washing…

> they've migrated more to streaming TV series that are too sophisticated for right-wingers to be viewing them en masse. A quick overview didn’t turn it up, but I recall a recent study that showed that people who self-identified as “right wing”, when asked to describe the beliefs of the “left wing”, were significantly more accurate than their “left wing” peers asked to describe “right wing” beliefs. Your comment stri…

Feel free to actually test my knowledge of right-wing beliefs at your leisure. But until you have done so, kindly stick to the topic instead of incorrectly speculating about what I supposedly "believe".

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by Bud »

raldi wrote: post #58
Bud wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't really that hard. Bridgerton, for instance.

How would you have told the story of Bridgerton without sex scenes?

Don't get me wrong, I fully support all the sex scenes in Bridgerton. I thought they were very well done.

Re: Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?

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Post by Bud »

kthejoker2 wrote: post #111
Bud wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't really that hard. Bridgerton, for instance.

Lol 1 example out of 8,000 series, and you list the one that is explicitly developed for Harlequin romance readers. If only you had named SexLife ...

Actually, if you look into it, you'll find that it has a lot broader appeal than that. For instance, I watched all of it, and I'm hardly a Harlequin novel reader.
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