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If you're going to do nudity, don't be coy.

posted 15 years ago by eslgr8
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I enjoyed 3-Day Weekend, a companion piece to a couple of my favorite gay movies (Love! Valour! Compassion! & Boyfriends)--since all three take a bunch of gay men, put them in a house, and lets us see what happens.
Interestingly, there's one scene in 3-Day Weekend in which one of the characters puts down Love! Valour! Compassion! because, he says, its preoccupation with AIDS is dated.
One thing that Love! Valour! Compassion! has that 3-Day Weekend doesn't is unembarrassed nudity. When characters get naked (Ramon and Arthur in particular), the camera shoots them in the same way it would if they were clothed. Clearly Randy Becker and John Benjamin Hickey knew what their roles entailed and didn't demand special angles to hide "the goods."
Everyone gets naked in 3-Day Weekend, but only two of the eight men do full frontal nudity. Everyone else is posed or shot in such a way as to keep the family jewels hidden.
I liked 3-Day Weekend, but nobody likes a tease.

[–] pierce_MN 15 years ago

I really liked this movie, too, eslgr8. It was a sort of gay "Big Chill." I didn't mind the coy nudity, because I was thrilled that the writing and acting was so good, and it didn't make me want to fast forward or skip over things. We need more gay indie pics like this. It wasn't dreary or preachy.