I want to say this about the ending..... - Screwballs (1983) Discussion

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[–] theroberthawleyexperienc 14 years ago

All these years i had no idea they used a stunt double and that the effects team made fake boobs for her because she got cold feet at doing the topless scene...

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[–] Doom 14 years ago

I'm still confused about this (just watched the DVD with commentary on).

So obviously the close-up is not her, but the 'long shot' (right before the credits come on) is really her but wearing some kind of 'cast' of her own breasts on top of her REAL breasts?

Huh??? Somebody help me understand this...

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[–] blacklodger 14 years ago

That's right, any shot where you can see Linda Speciale's face and she has her breasts on show, she's wearing a cast of her own breasts.
Pretty strange but there you go. Director should have filmed the ending first like he said.

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[–] Doom 14 years ago

Damn. And yes that is pretty strange.

The commentary on the DVD is hilarious - it's funny how one of the guys yells "Fake!" at the final shot of her when she's wearing the cast of her own breasts, but to me it looks pretty damn real the way the director filmed it...

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[–] Barry_Ace 10 years ago

So THAT'S why she wasn't covering them like a normal girl would in that type of situation, She was actually covering the ends of the cast!

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[–] Sandman81 (1501) 6 years ago

Kind of surprising that they were able to do the body cast of her for that scene, since they obviously were on a shoe string budget. But it still looks good, and convincing. The close up shots are what give away that its not the actual actress.

I guess the morale of the story is: film a scene like that early in production. That way the actress has less time to think about it and get cold feet, and you hold leverage over her in that if she refuses you can still recast her. There's no way they could have afforded to reshot all her scenes, and she probably realized that, and that's how she got away without actually doing it.

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[–] TommyJarvis82 (2471) 6 years ago

Yeah. There was a good amount of nudity in this movie, but the most important nude scene should have filmed very early.

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[–] wallacesawyer 14 years ago

Very unique ending. And the music helped a lot.

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[–] lazarillo 14 years ago

I wondered about that. That girl was STUNNING, and the whole movie seemed to lead up to her being seriously nude at the end, then they use an obvious body double.

Ironically, the longshots would have fooled me, but it was pretty obvious when they showed separate close-ups of her face and "her" breasts. I guess I should have listened to the commentary, but I rented this and didn't really want to watch it twice.

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[–] Doom 14 years ago

I agree about the 'longshot' - it looked fine.

So goofy - I mean what's the difference if she's wearing a cast made to look like her ACTUAL breasts?!?

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[–] AndyRyan 11 years ago

And then she did an actual topless scene 25 years later in Breaking Bad.

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[–] Sandman81 (1501) 5 years ago

20 years later, the filmmakers are still bitter about it.

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