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Originally Posted by elwood731
As I said before, I understand fine what he is saying. He's saying women should do nude scenes or find another career. Pretty simple, actually. He can guise it in comments such as "it's about reality" and "they get to make a choice," but then there's really no choice if it comes down to pose nude or lose your job, is there? It's a complete removal of choice.
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I understand your point and I think it makes sense, but I think it's a bit extreme (unless you're being extreme purposefully to drive your point home).
Not every actor who has the chance to act will have to expose their body parts. Jennifer Lopez was topless in U-Turn, but not in subsequent films (at least not all of them). Selena came out before U-Turn, I believe, and she wasn't nude in that. Jamie Lee Curtis showed her breasts in Trading Places, but not in every subsequent film.
I do agree that it sucks that having to be nude in some roles sucks and if that actor chooses NOT to do it, they won't necessarily have to get out of acting completely. They might find another role they can play and keep their clothes on. It might be a more difficult career path, but not necessarily an impossible one. I think it's important to keep this in perspective when making your point.
In the end, this gets back to "nudity being done right", which both Moogle and Elwood are basically commenting on AND that was one of piratehunter's initial points in this thread. Body parts shouldn't be shown purely for "titilation" value but if it contributes to the integrity of the story, I've got no problem with it and it sounds like most others don't have a problem with it as well.
The real question is: what constitutes "doing it right"?
Peace...