I am so glad this thread was here. It ties in with my thoughts on the movie industry as art and as business.
Look, imagine them watching the dailies on this scene. What was the reaction?
Possibility 1.
They didn't notice it until it was too late to do anything about it.
All the other possibilities start with someone pointing and saying "Hey, that looks like her nipple."
Possibility 2.
Answered with "Hey, you're right! You, there! Edit that out and reshoot that scene."
(Well, we know that didn't happen.)
Possibility 3.
Answered with "Hey, you're right! Gee, what do we do?"
"I got an idea. Let's leave it in, and maybe some folks will rent the film just to get a look. If it makes any controversy at all, that can only help sell."
"Make it so."
Possibility 4.
Answered with "Yup, you're right. You see, my friend, we found out by accident that if we use the caucasian actress with the right shade of skin, and made sure she has enough of a 'screen' next to her cleavage, then each light up above can make shadows on her breast. With a pair of lights up there, and if she leans back right and holds her fist over her chest, the two hand shadows will overlap. If this double shadow is cut off just right by her shirt, then on a normal screen or a dvd, it will be round-is with a darker area in the center.
"So, if we do all that and get it offscreen within a few seconds, a lot over viewers will think they've seen a nipple slip and they'll tell their friends. Meanwhile, we are still golden with the movie ratings board giving a PG-13 instead of an R, because we can demonstrate a zoom-in anytime that proves it is a shadow. They will have to believe it was an accident."
Possibility 5.
Same thing but they slip a colored drawing of the shadows over her chest for the fifteen second shot.
Possibility 6.
Same thing as number 4, but the director adds "And we pay a firm to find out how to do things like that. Because we use every trick in the book and any new ones they think up."
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