Why R?
Why R?
shareShe has sex with a old man and she is shown nude throughout the movie.
shareIf Clint Eastwood had toned this movie down and gotten a PG or G rating I think it would have done much better.
Yeah, but the nudity is central to Breezy's "free spirit" character. And it also emphasizes how Frank's is first immune to her attempts to seduce him. She whips her top off right in front of him and he's totally unphased.
shareGood point. Very important. It also tells her that she has more work to do and simple seduction would never work. Frank is no Bruno, who would have jumped all over her and then thought so little of her that he would forget who she was.
Clint Eastwood's direction always leaves little clues around. I did not pick up on the significance of the first shower scene. Thanks.
The sex scence where not really good though,from Clint Eastwood I expected that when I seen the video today.Show of been more nudity too I thought.
Key Lenz was really HOT in 1970 and still is.
Nudity, plain and simple. She was nude in several scenes. That's why it bombed at the box office.
shareNudity was fairly commonplace in mainstream films of that era. I think the reason it bombed was a lack of interest in the subject manner. The film appealed to older men, and no one else. The generation gap was such then, that the bulk of the potential audience, both young and old, probably found the film offensive.
Holden's audience was primarily women his age, who remembered him from the films of his youth. Seeing him crawl in bed with a teenage hippie probably wasn't too appealing.
I was really closer to Breezy's age than Frank's when I first saw this, and I liked it. Now I see Breezy and think she's a bum. And the name she gave the dog (Sir Lovalot) really grates on me.
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!
I was Breezy's exact age in 1973, although I'm a guy. My recollection is older men liked the film, because they wished such an affair was possible. As for women, my mother and aunt walked out of the theatre in disgust. Keep in mind this was before Holden's career was revitalized in Network, and he hadn't made a movie in sometime. Breezy is quite a change from those brought up watching Holden in Sunset Boulevard and Picnic. As for teenagers at the time, very few saw the film that I was aware of. I watched it the first time many years later on video.
shareDidn't nudity almost always guaranteed a profit back then (now too, but especially then). That being said, I'm watching it now for the first time and I'm not exactly soled on the fact that there's a sex scene between Holden and Lenz; not just for the obvious reason which is "Eww!", but seems to me like it'd be more touching if it was about a friendship between people of different generations. Maybe I should reserve judgment until that scene pops up, it might work, but the idea seems like something that will be shoehorned in because a studio-head said, "More sex! We must sell tickets!"
There was a period of time in the 1970's, when just about all leading actresses between the ages of 18 and 35, had done a nude scene in a mainstream film. It was so prevalent, that Playboy did an annual "sex in cinema" pictorial in the December issue every year.
Between the ages of 18 and 35, you say? No younger let's hope; it'd be PRETTY unsettling if they went younger (*Cough*Brooke Shields!*Cough*Cough*)
You're an A-hole.
Why not tone down "The Canterbury Tales" while you're at it, you philistine.