Austin Strip Clubs: SXSW Rant: Horror Directors Offended By Nudity, Love Gratuitous Violence
Theres no better example of this particular panels mindset than Sin City. Jessica Alba played a stripper who didnt take her clothes off in the film (even though in the comics the character definitely does) and most fans were quick to blame the MPAA or the studio for it. Nudity is generally integral to playing a stripper, its not gratuitous, its part of the job and part of the character. But not according to Rodriguez. Instead he revealed that the missing nipples in Sin City were intentional. As Rodriguez explains it, he wasnt comfortable with putting nudity in Sin City but felt he had to be as faithful as possible to the comic which contains a lot of it. So to get around it he says, I thought, well, I can at least put a few booby shots up front and then theyll get the sense that everyone from that point on was nakedÂ… you see two breasts at the beginning of the movie and the rest of the movie no. I guess pulling out the boobs left more room for all those completely non-gratuitous beheadings.
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