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I actually wished she...


...didn't get them out. Not that there's anything wrong with them. Far from it. It's just that Julie Andrews was always my ideal of the prim lady, and that pleasant illusion was a wee bat shattered after this.

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Hey Scott,

I agree with you completely. I watched SOB one time only, and I did not see the character Sally Miles expose her breasts. What I saw instead was Mary Poppins exposing her breasts, I saw Maria Von Trap exposing her breasts, and I saw Julie Andrews exposing her breasts. How she could do that, and how her husband could encourage her to do that is beyond me. From that point on, I have never been able to appreciate Julie Andrews again.

Neither the scene nor the film held any significant value as satire, humor, or anything else. It was simply a cheap exploitation of Julie Andrews' notoriety, and it certainly was not about art.

Best wishes,
Dave Wile





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Hey David,

That entire movie was made just so she could show her boobs. I think she and her husband had the idea that a "Mary Poppins" type actress exposing her breasts would be a huge hit, so Blake Edwards wrote a so-called comedy around that premise. What a dud! The part where they absconded with their newly deceased friend from the mortuary, however, is based upon an alledged true incident. Supposedly, when John Barrymore died, W. C. Fields and friends kidnapped his body from the mortuary and brought him home to have a last drink together. When Errol Flynn walked in and saw Barrymore sitting there with a drink in his hand, he shrieked and ran away. At least that's the story. (told by a bunch of drunks).

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Hey Larry,

I am embarrassed to admit that I have no recollection of the scene where they abscond with their friend from the mortuary. In fact, I really do not recall anything from the film anymore - except the part where she bares her chest. The idea of Mary Poppins baring her chest is like some terrible childhood memory of a horror show.

I just do not understand why or how people sometimes do the things they do. Money cannot be the motivation in Julie Andrew’s case. Did she do it just to please Blake Edwards? How lame can that be? If I suggested such a thing to my wife, she would laugh it off as a joke. If I insisted, she would tell me to take a hike. I guess I just don’t get some of the big league people and their big league behaviors.

Best wishes,
Dave Wile

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Geez, what a horrid thing, your childhood illusions were shattered. Mine came when I found out Rock Hudson was gay. Grow up and get over it. the rest of us do.

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Oh, do shut up you patronizing, unfunny fool.

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Oh, do shut up you patronizing, unfunny fool.


Whiney guys are so pitiful.

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exactly can't these guys understand that their beloved Julie Andrews has boobs??? and it's just boobs, it's nothing to get disturbed by. even if she were nude in this movie and showed full frontal, that wouldn't be wrong. everyone has a body. get over it. it's called acting. and the people who can't take it, don't watch it, these people who can't take it sound so immature, like little kids, like suddenly they realized that santa claus is not real. kids can't or shouldn't watch R rated movies and apparently some immature adults can't either.

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Julie Andrews is not Mary Poppins, nor is she Maria Von Trapp. She's Julie Andrews with all of the flaws, irregularities, and kinkiness of any normal human being. She's also a good and surprisingly versatile actress. It's just that many pigeon-hole her as this goody-two shoes, which limits her alot and hinders her from truly showing off her range. But guess what? Julie Andrews is an actress, she has boobs, the script of SOB required that she show them off, and she claims she did the film of her own free will. She also says she has no regrets and would do it again if it were appropriate. Get over it! She's an actress and a human being, not a fictional angelic character.

As for the movie itself, I didn't care for it much, but Julie taking this role (along with 10 and Victor/Victoria) was one of the best moves of her career. She's under no obligation to be prim and proper just because some of her most popular characters happened to be so.

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I'm not interested in your definition of Julie Andrews or your rationale for why she did the scene. The simple fact is it didn't work and just seemed weird.

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but they had to do it. they had to show her boobs because the whole big part of the film had to do with an erotic musical and her being an innocent big star showing her boobs as being scandalous and being infamous and making the movie a lot of money.

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An excellent answer about Julie Andrews. I like the film, though, especially the friends taking their dead pal around.



"I don't discriminate between entertainment
and arthouse. A film is a goddam film."

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Julie Andrews is not Mary Poppins, nor is she Maria Von Trapp. She's Julie Andrews with all of the...

Wait...backup....

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You were under the illusion that she didn't have breasts?

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Hey Rlburns666,

Yes, I was aware that Julie Andrews actually has breasts. My mother also has breasts. For some strange reason, however, I really do not like the idea of seeing my mother's breasts.

Perhaps it may be a simple matter of taste. Then again, it could be something else for those folks who like the idea of seeing their mothers' breasts. Does the name "Oedipus" ring any bells?

Best wishes,
Dave Wile

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I'm with Dave on this one. It scarred me when it came out!

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You should. They're magnificent.

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exactly. I can't remember ever, ever seeing boobs as perfect boobs in my life. they are perfectly symmetrical, perfectly evenly sized, perfectly straight, and they don't droop or sag at all, and are full, medium sized, and have such beautifully colored areolas, pink. maybe the most perfect boobs I've ever seen. I was so sexually aroused by her boobs in that scene, I was so overwhelmed and breathless. they revealed her boobs in a very effective and sexy way because they revealed them in an unpredictable way because you didn't expect to see them when you did. those guys are so stupid and immature saying I can't see her boobs because she's so innocent. and that one guy saying it scarred him for life sounds like he saw them when he was a little kid, so of course he would've been scarred for life, he shouldn't of been watching this movie then. when you get older you realize that all women have boobs and you mature and get ok with seeing any woman's boobs, even hers. I dont' have the memories of watching her in the sound of music and then having this innocent image of her in my mind, but even if I did, when I became an adult I would be able to take seeing her boobs.

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but it doesn't matter, you view on her boobs or sexuality doesn't matter. it's called acting and so it doesn't matter what anyone thinks of her showing her boobs. all that matters is the integrity of the movie which in order for it to have it needed to have her boobs.

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Have you ever visited reality?
Julie Andrews is an actress, a woman, a human being. She is not your ideal prim lady.
If your pleasant illusion - which actually sounds creepy and unpleasant - was shatttered by a movie, I suggest you need psychiatric help.

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"Julie Andrews is an actress, a woman, a human being."

What an idiotically obvious and banal comment. God knows how it’s supposed to support the idea that we should all be perfectly fine with her getting her tits out.

And Reality isn't a place. You don't 'visit' it.

Confused, much?

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"Confused, much?" is not a coherent, grammatically correct statement.

It is, however, as idiotic as your original musings in regard to the shattering of your illusions by a movie.

My comment that Julie Andrews is an actress, a woman and a human being was made in the context of your rather strange remark that she was somehow a paragon of primness in your imagination. If you don't understand what context is, I suggest you look it up, along with the name of a phsyciatrist who can help you with your delusions.

Understand now?

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Hey Scott,

I'm still with you on the idea of Julie Andrews showing her breasts. It simply reminds me of seeing your mother, your sister, or a Nun from your school days doing the same thing. You may have a real good looking mother, sister, and even a good looking Nun in your past, but do you really want to see them naked? To each his own, but that is not for me. It's not about whether or not the person is attractive; it's about who the person is. It's about modesty, not titillation.

Simply put, there are some people who I would rather not see in the nude, and I would submit that most guys would tend to not want to see their mother nude, nor their sister, nor a Nun they had in school.

When Terraplane suggests that someone needs "psychiatric help" simply because that person chooses to be discriminating in who or what he finds sexually stimulating, it simply does not make sense. Seeing Julie Andrews nude may be a pleasant experience for Terraplane, and I would not suggest there is anything wrong with that. By the same token, I see no reason why he should find fault with someone who does not share his sentiments about Julie Andrews' nude scene.

With UK in your screen name, are you by any chance from the UK?

Best wishes,
Dave Wile

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Hey Scott,

Please allow me to take a crack at being somewhat pedantic in making a comment on what Terraplane noted. According to Terraplane, ""Confused, much?" is not a coherent, grammatically correct statement." Well, I think Terraplane was missing the barn by about 12 yards there.

While I am not positive whether your "Confused, much?" is actually grammatically correct, I am absolutely certain that it is actually quite coherent in that the meaning of your words was clearly understandable. Perhaps if you might have written "Confused much?" instead of "Confused, much?" it might have been more grammatically correct. However, I was not an English major, so I am not really sure about that. One does not need to be an English major to know that written either way, your phrase was easily coherent for anyone for whome English is their mother tongue.

I suppose some folks may suggest that since you are from the UK and I am from the USA, that we actually do not share the same mother tongue. Well, I wouldn't waste my time in arguement of same. I would simply point out that it seems to me that we have been conversing on this thread for some time, and we have been able to communicate our thoughts and ideas between us rather well. I suspect if I ever visited the UK I might have some problems understanding the spoken word at times, but I am pretty sure I would be able to muddle my way across your land and enjoy doing so. Then again, I find I have trouble at times understanding the spoken word of some folks right here at home - including my children and grandchildren.

It certainly has been pleasant conversing with you on this thread.

Best wishes,
Dave Wile



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Well, in terms of crafting a scathing indictment and satire against the film industry, getting them out is quite an effective, strong, frank expression. Her courage should be complemented.

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The whole film was a satire on the insanity of Hollywood, and I always took this to be a play on just how much hoopla is made over something that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. They're just boobs for chrissake. It's amazing how the only people who could and are offended by it are the same ones who ascribe to it meaning that really isn't there.

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Yes, This thread was a 1 year ago, so actually come on people if somemody was an actress and a human being is it necessary to expose tits? come on? everybody, we all have childhood which has been ruined, and as you see, Julie Andrews did this long strip journey to her lastblake edwards' movie, sob where she gets topless

the only good thing from blake Edwards is the pink panther

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I don't think many here fully understand the concept of a black comedy.

I think my percentage of Chimp DNA is higher than others. Cleaver Greene

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In real life, Scott uk88, Julie Andrews had the mouth of a sailor. Her screen persona: Good, Nice, Harmless was the opposite of her real life personality, except for the nice part. From what I know, she had quite the potty-mouth and was very apt to use it on all occasions. Makes me like her even better, knowing this....Kind of hard to keep living up to the Mary Poppins image, I would imagine! lol.

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She made use of her potty mouth in her stage show. Not to any large extent, but to show that she was capable of such. She was an excellent live performer.


I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?

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For the first several times I saw the film, I thought the boobies were fake. Watching it again, they seemed to be of Julie origin.

My bewilderment about the scene is that her revealing is decidedly unsexy. It's like she's using them as a cross to fend off a vampire. I know that whole sequence is supposed to be decadent, but it also very repellent. You'd think that to show decadence, you'd want to have images and mood that would entice the viewer into being drawn to such acts, when they might not have ever considered it. The action is as removed and uninvolving as that in "Eyes Wide Shut". Yes, we see the action, but no passion or urgency.


I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?

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