Some of it does develop character, definitely. In fact, I can't think of a sex scene so far that didn't.
I suspect you're right but... If I remember by history, the 'movie sex' boom of the 1970s was cur short by puritans, but they don't seem to be around anymore (plus, porn is *everywhere*, and no one complains about full frontal nudity that much anyone).
That's partly why I suspect it'll happen eventually. I mean it's already happened in films like The Brown Bunny between Chloë Sevigny and Vincent Gallo, and there was a scene with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci in The Man Who Cried (or so rumour had it.) It's the prevalence of porn that's going to make actual sex onscreen not such a big deal, possibly even expected. Not with our generation, but maybe the next, and almost certainly the one after that.
I can't help but if on-screen sex will always be a bit of a novelty away from pron. After all, you don't cast Sascha Grey as Lady Macbeth, do you?
I think you're looking at it from the wrong angle. People went to see the last Fast and the Furious/i> movie largely because they wanted to see The Rock beat up Vin Diesel. People would also go to see two big stars get it on for real. Not anytime soon, but within twenty years I think so. Once the next generation start claiming stakes in Hollywood (or whatever replaces Hollywood).
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Date: 2011-05-25 04:10 am (UTC)I suspect you're right but... If I remember by history, the 'movie sex' boom of the 1970s was cur short by puritans, but they don't seem to be around anymore (plus, porn is *everywhere*, and no one complains about full frontal nudity that much anyone).
That's partly why I suspect it'll happen eventually. I mean it's already happened in films like The Brown Bunny between Chloë Sevigny and Vincent Gallo, and there was a scene with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci in The Man Who Cried (or so rumour had it.) It's the prevalence of porn that's going to make actual sex onscreen not such a big deal, possibly even expected. Not with our generation, but maybe the next, and almost certainly the one after that.
I can't help but if on-screen sex will always be a bit of a novelty away from pron. After all, you don't cast Sascha Grey as Lady Macbeth, do you?
I think you're looking at it from the wrong angle. People went to see the last Fast and the Furious/i> movie largely because they wanted to see The Rock beat up Vin Diesel. People would also go to see two big stars get it on for real. Not anytime soon, but within twenty years I think so. Once the next generation start claiming stakes in Hollywood (or whatever replaces Hollywood).