Was the sped up sex scene real?

Technically the first one is as you've got a bunch of people naked and having sex. There's no actual penetration going on so at best it's softcore but you do see everything.

The final scene is no. She's just sitting on top of him and while Kubrick was all about realism I doubt he'd get Malcolm to actually penetrate her assuming he could of course with the lights, cameras and people around. Most likely he was soft during that scene although I like to think he gave her the old in out later on in his dressing room.

No.

Of course it was real!

And Keir Dullea really had to survive a vacuum in 2001.

And Ryan O'Neal really had his leg amputated in Barry Lyndon.

And Slim Pickens riding that bomb in Dr. Strangelove. Absolutely!

Of course it was real, it was a documentary of life in England at that time...

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It sure looks like it.

According to Malcom McDowell in the commentary, that was 28 minutes worth of film in one take.. imagine 28 minutes on a bed with two naked young girls.. I'm not saying there was any actual penetration.. but man how awkward that would be! They had to get REALLY comfortable with each other for that amount of time!

No it wasn't real. It was acting, not porno acting where people actually perform sexual acts on each other, but actual acting in a mainstream movie. The actors were naked, there was physical contact, but no intercourse or penetration. You have to remember also that they aren't alone in a bedroom, but on a film set made to look like a bedroom. There would have been dozens of people around them, with cameras, lighting, microphones and other equipment. The scenes would have started and stopped, over and over until the director got the shots he wanted. So as much as it may have looked like 3 people having sex in a young man's bedroom, it was none of these things. It was, like most other movie scenes you've ever viewed, merely an illusion.