They say that ‘sex sells’, but if that’s true, why has it practically disappeared from modern Hollywood filmmaking? It wasn’t always this way: romantic scene...
tl;dr: capeshit/MCU/nerds/streaming killed sex in movie theaters.
Firstly, This is bull. There is a ton of sex in movies. Just not in most capeshit because those are all ages superhero movies.
Secondly, there is nothing more awkward than watching people fuck when you’re not watching porn. Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever. Plus sex scenes usually offer nothing that isn’t already implied and they grind the movie to a halt. Netflix has this problem out the ass if you want to see why this is bad. Fucking and gore for no reason other then shock the viewer for cheap maturity clout.
I feel like people confuse sex for a more ambient, lowkey sort of horniness. A sense of being lived in. The issue isn’t that movies are literally sexless, it’s that they’re figuratively sexless. Everyone’s conventionally attractive, but in a sterile, lifeless way.
Yeah, people don’t need to fuck but it can be appropriate for a character to avoid making it seem like they don’t know what sex even is and frankly aren’t interested in finding out.
This is the source of many, many, MANY of our cultural neuroses. I blame the fact that a lot of old school American doctors and social leaders thought any sort of excitement was either physically bad or spiritually bad
Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever.
When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom thinking it was going to be some sort of serious docudrama about shady stock brokers. Worst theater experience of my life.
The wolf of wall street was released 10 years ago, there’s a good chance the person you’re responding to is in their mid 20s/around 25 years now old lmao.
I would know because I’m also a similar age, sorry for making you feel old
It’s okay, when you’re an old like us it’s a feeling that happens a lot anyway. If it wasn’t you it would be walking into a room with no idea what you were looking for, realising an album you just bought is now playing on a retro station, or looking at the date of literally anything.
Firstly, This is bull. There is a ton of sex in movies. Just not in most capeshit because those are all ages superhero movies.
Secondly, there is nothing more awkward than watching people fuck when you’re not watching porn. Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever. Plus sex scenes usually offer nothing that isn’t already implied and they grind the movie to a halt. Netflix has this problem out the ass if you want to see why this is bad. Fucking and gore for no reason other then shock the viewer for cheap maturity clout.
I feel like people confuse sex for a more ambient, lowkey sort of horniness. A sense of being lived in. The issue isn’t that movies are literally sexless, it’s that they’re figuratively sexless. Everyone’s conventionally attractive, but in a sterile, lifeless way.
Yeah, people don’t need to fuck but it can be appropriate for a character to avoid making it seem like they don’t know what sex even is and frankly aren’t interested in finding out.
Americans are simultaneously very horny and very prudish
This is the source of many, many, MANY of our cultural neuroses. I blame the fact that a lot of old school American doctors and social leaders thought any sort of excitement was either physically bad or spiritually bad
should’ve pushed the puritans back into the sea
When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom thinking it was going to be some sort of serious docudrama about shady stock brokers. Worst theater experience of my life.
Holy shit I’m so fucking old
The wolf of wall street was released 10 years ago, there’s a good chance the person you’re responding to is in their mid 20s/around 25 years now old lmao.
I would know because I’m also a similar age, sorry for making you feel old
It’s okay, when you’re an old like us it’s a feeling that happens a lot anyway. If it wasn’t you it would be walking into a room with no idea what you were looking for, realising an album you just bought is now playing on a retro station, or looking at the date of literally anything.
:chomsky-yes-honey:
:deeper-sadness: :assad-pogger: