It's called ACTING, Jeff. Richard Harris was in character playing a scene. He wasn't actually being "ridiculed, taunted, and abused by American Indians." And how were the nude scenes "brutal and nasty"? Harris' character is suppose to be in a very vulnerable and helpless situation, so the nudity was necessary to the scene. After all, aren't we all at are most vulnerable when nude? At any rate, where male nudity is concerned, methinks thou doth protest too much, Jeff.
Richard Harris was pushing 40 when he did this film and his body looks just fine to me, not "skinny" and certainly not displeasing to the eye. And it wasn't happenstance that the camera crew somehow "managed" to film Richard without revealing his package; they knew exactly what they were doing because they're professionals and that's their job. It's all in the angle of the dangle. Frontal male nudity was still taboo in US films then, so the cameramen filmed those shots accordingly. And why do you "thank goodness" his package wasn't revealed when we both know that you very much wanted to have a look? I don't believe for a moment that bouncy, happy genitals frighten you as much as you'd like others to think they do. Personally, I was very disappointed that there wasn't any flappage and floppage. Richard Harris wouldn't have minded, but 1970 American audiences would have.
In the years since your post, I hope you've come to accept your sexual orientation, Jeff. After all, it's rather obvious that you've given a great deal of thought to male nudity in film. Instead of discussing nude scenes of actors such as Richard Harris and Cornel Wilde, I hope you're now enjoying some male nudity of your own.
Now go get 'em, Jeff; there's a whole world of male nudity waiting just for you and a lot of packages to open and enjoy!
reply
share
lannaheim
10 years ago
YEAH! I second that emotion! (I mean the guy I am replying to, not original poor Jeff)
Hey, hey, 1970, this was Oh! Calcutta -- and btw I found the male asses very appealing, as a mature woman.
I only just watched it tonight -- don't even recall why I ordered it from Netflix -- and I thought it was dreadful. But I stayed with it, and it honestly got better (tho' still hokey).
reply
share