Now before I begin, this is not my wanting them to remake this. This is one film, that if they ever remade I would go on a rampage about LOL. But I was wondering, that if they were to make it today, do you think that they would put nudity into it? And what would you think of this?
I personally think that it would ruin the film. Any thoughts?
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I think that if this film were re-made today, it would most definitely feature nudity, graphic sex scenes, and that whole lesbian atmosphere between Belle de Jour and the 'Madame' would have been "explored" a whole lot more! The original was pretty flawless, and if it were to be re-made it would probably be nothing but an insult to the great art of Bunuel.
shareI would agree. I think they would not use the subtlety that Bunuel did. He knew that nudity was not necessary. If it were made now it would be a film that I call 'marketed', in the sense that - to appeal to a certain group, the elements would only be in the film in order for it to make money. whereas Bunuel made the film the way it is as that was what interested him, with no regard for how auiences and producers would feel. If that makes sense LOL
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Yeah, you're right. Bunuel didn't give a *beep* about audiences or commercialism, he created the way he wanted to. If Hollywood got hold of that, it would be ripped to shreds. A good example is the second version of 'the postman always rings twice', this was originally an Italian film called 'Ossessione', a good film too, subtle but effective. Hollywood made *beep* of it.
shareI have seen a bit of both versions of the Postman..., and from what I saw they were totally different.
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They so would. They so would emphacize on a lot of unnessary sex scenes which will totally ruin the artistic and aesthetic viewpoints of this movie. And I totally agree with someone above said, they will explore more the "lesbian" thing. But this is all assuming doing a Hollywood re-make.
If leave it with the women directors' or the French people's hands, I can't say.
I don't intend to be offensive, but I have to defend my opinions.
Of course they would put nudity in it. Why not ? This is 2008, not 1967. Bunuel could have shot 90 minutes of Catherine Dedevue walking around naked and won an Academy Award for Cinematography.
shareIf remade today, it would be soft-core porn.
Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!
If remade today, it would be soft-core porn.
It would be stimulating to see different directors and actresses tackle this thing.
shareStimulating? Whom?
I am afraid, it would be totally unstimulating in a sense of 'cinema'.
What is so difficult to understand in the concept 'movie as movie' that you don't say everything you could have said in 90 minutes, shown what you could have shown, and leave the audience with a feel-good because good has triumphed over evil.
They would put some disgusting sexual scene into the box shown by the Mongolian customer, and not only shown to the prostitute(s), but also as a camera shot for the audience. What a boring piece of nothing, when everything that could be shown, actually is shown.
And it turned out that there was nothing in that box. Except our fantasies.
For me. Why would I care about you guys. Mystery is nice but some people want too much of it.
Rather than a remake "they" should just borrow/steal heavily from this and then we could all be happy.
There'd definitely be more nudity. Incidentally, I'm surprised Bunuel's version received an R rating - there is nothing frontal and not much in the way of violence or language either. A new version would step it up in all of those areas and really "earn" that R.
shareCouldn't hurt with a few faint reddish stripes on the skin in that whipping scene.
shareThere was one scene in particular where I thought this. It was the scene were one of the clients told her to turn over and the camera stayed on him the whole time. They definitely would have put nudity in it if it were made today. I personally am not offended by nudity in a film but I just feel that if you can avoid showing it, then don't show it. We all know what it looks like so showing it would have been titillation.
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