Just watching GPB for the 1st time. Noticed in the scene where Dorothy is talking to men at the pool and when she's singing while they work out there swim trunks are flesh color lol looks funny with the black bands on the bottom
Such a sexy musical number.
shareAs they do the jumps and move fast across the screen you would think they 'were not wearin' nothin'. Thank god for the pool cause it is one hot number.
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Producers, directors and the studios, are always trying to get as much as possible past the censors. This number was one of them. The trunks, were as close to flesh colored, as they could make them (And still pretend it wasn't on purpose) They put the black band at the bottom, so they could say: "See, see, this proves that they ARE trunks, and not a bunch of naked guys" Censors, could make or brake a film, in those days. Everyone hated them. One trick, the Set Dressers pulled, was to hang a risque painting on a back wall of a set, that the camera would pan across. A Hollywood, "in joke". (I'm in Hollywood).
That's "make or break."
shareThis scene is so sexy!
shareI combed this board looking for this thread. I KNEW someone had to have mentioned this scene and I'm surprised more girls aren't on here agreeing.
When they first ran by, I thought they were wearing thongs or something; I saw the black, but not the flesh colored shorts.
In two shots, you can see a guy's testicles. They stretch their legs all over the place in those short shorts, and yes, like a perv (I'm a straight guy), I was lookin'.
But dammit if you women don't deserve that scene. Movies always give us up-shorts or whatever Megan Fox does these days, but rarely is there a number like that.
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"In two shots, you can see a guy's testicles. They stretch their legs all over the place in those short shorts, and yes, like a perv (I'm a straight guy), I was lookin'. "
Lmao! I came in here to say you can see balls in two shots
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Thanks for corroborating!
There's a movie where you can see all of Robin Williams's goods, can't remember the movie. He's wearing that silly paper-fiber wrap that doctors give you during surgery or something and he jumps all around the bed.
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Damn! Now I have to go back and rewatch that scene just to check. Such a trial.
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Yes, I just re-watched this film and the gymnasium dance sequence stood out - it looks incredibly camp and suggestive to my eyes - I wonder if that is how it was viewed by audiences on first release...? (or was it all more innocent then?)
I doubt anyone was fooled — just look at the choreography. When they weren't bending over and sticking their arses in the air, they were lying on their backs, pointing their ankles at the ceiling and spreading their legs.
The cover story, as far as the Hays Code was concerned, was that the guys were all too serious about their sport to have time for dalliances. (And too devoted to their coach, no doubt.) The real joke of the scene, of course, was that there really wasn't anyone there for love ... with her. People then weren't nearly as stuffy about gay references as we tend to assume nowadays (religious fundamentalism wasn't at anywhere near the tragic heights it is now, for instance), even if they didn't talk about it so readily.
The bit that surprised me about the scene was ... well, I don't mean to be crass, but ... those shorts were really tight. And really short. I was going to say I was surprised that none of the guys, ermm, fell out, but to be blunt, none of them looked like they had enough tucked away to fall anywhere. I know they say there are no small parts, only small actors, but I don't think that's quite what they have in mind!
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
"People then weren't nearly as stuffy about gay references as we tend to assume nowadays (religious fundamentalism wasn't at anywhere near the tragic heights it is now, for instance), even if they didn't talk about it so readily. "
People may not have liked gay people in person but yes, they were frequently portrayed in movies, usually as hairdressers, dress designers, department store salesmen and misc. other men who "smelled nice" (code for gay).
And as for people being "stuffy" or naive back then, people forget that the famous novel "The Big Sleep" (upon which a major motion picture was based) was written 14 years earlier, and portrays homosexuality, murder, drug abuse, police corruption, gambling, pornography, and a psychopathic female killer.
This scene is TOTALLY gay. It even has references to ancient Greece (a place where homosexuality was rife and where men lived their lives almost without the company of ladies). I love it.
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