Who has sex in a bra?
I mean really? That sex scene at the beginning was just sooo wrong. I was cringing all the time.
shareI mean really? That sex scene at the beginning was just sooo wrong. I was cringing all the time.
shareMost movies and TV shows do that now. Here's a few recent examples, just off the top of my head:
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Kristen Bell has her bra on during sex.
Knocked Up - Katherine Heigl has her bra on during sex.
The Ugly Truth - Katharine Heigl (again) has her bra on during sex.
Bridget Jones Diary - Renee Zwellweger still has her bra on after sex with Hugh Grant.
The Holiday - Cameron Diaz has her bra on during sex.
Two and A Half Men episode - Chelsea has her bra on after sex with Charlie.
...It's modern American actresses in general. We're living in a different era now where actressess refuse to show their boobs on camera.
No boobs = Lower rating which means more people and younger people can watch. Not that they should watch, but still. besides, its not uncommon to have sex in a bra if the moment hits.
sharePlenty of boobs can be seen in PG13 (and before that, PG) movies...you can't get much lower 'rating' than that, unless you want Princess Jasmine or Snow White to flop their puppies out, or the Little Mermaid to shed her shells?
Plus it kinda defeats your argument, as Bridesmaids showed no boobies yet was still rated "R" for "strong sexuality, and language throughout".
So in essence, there was no good reason not to have any boobs in this movie, other than the fact that they just didn't want to.
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...Except every movie on that list besides The Holiday is rated r, and 2 And A Half Men is s network comedy.
When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbidden...am I alone here?
In Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker was the only one who never went topless in the show. She always kept her bra on during sex.
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From the trivia section here:
In the DVD commentary, it is mentioned that Paul Feig and Kristen Wiig made a deliberate decision for Annie to keep her bra on during her sex scenes with Ted (John Hamm) but to have her take it off during her sex scene with Nathan (Chris O'Dowd) as a way of symbolizing that Annie feels she can open up emotionally (as well as physically) to Nathan in a way that she can't to Ted.share
Thats exactly what I thought when I noticed she was braless during that scene. Makes sense.
oh please...what self serving nonsense in that "trivia".
oh, they wanted it to symbolize she could not open up to Ted? BS.
Wiig didn't want to take her top off, plain and simple. I have no problem with that, but let's dispense with the whole emotional angle.
so she could blow the John Hamm character, but could not take her top off with him whenever she hooked up with him? She's okay "cupping his b@lls" but taking the top off was something she was not comfy with? Please.
For a woman, blowing a guy is much more indicative of being able to open up and is much more indicative of trust/intimacy, then taking your bra off...(twice, in two scenes by the way)
Opening up emotionally...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
let's dispense with the whole emotional angle.
so she could blow the John Hamm character, but could not take her top off with him whenever she hooked up with him? She's okay "cupping his b@lls" but taking the top off was something she was not comfy with? Please.
For a woman, blowing a guy is much more indicative of being able to open up and is much more indicative of trust/intimacy, then taking your bra off...(twice, in two scenes by the way)
that was quite a desperate attempt to dance off the hook.
and still wrong.
Wiig did not want to take her top off, plain and simple, as is her right.
You desperately trying to make more into it is hysterical, especially considering your sudden appearance and emotional lectures on this board.
To address your points.
- No, the emotional angle does not make me uncomfortable at all. We dispense with it, because that was *NOT*, in fact the reason for the bra on.
- Oh, revealing her "smallish boobs" would have left her vulnerable? Give me a break. I have slept with over 40 women in my 40 years on this earth, from gigantic sized breasts to small ones, and intimate or one night stand, not *ONE* ever left their bra on while wearing nothing else.
- the poor quality of the sex had nothing to do with her bra being on, which, everyone knows, was because of the rating and Wiig's comfort with it. It is a personal choice, same as Heigl in Knocked up. Some women do not want to show their breasts on camera. I support them if that is their choice. Stop trying to pretend that the bra was left on *TWICE* to make some larger emotional statement.
- I didn't miss anything. Her trip to the bathroom was indicative what a shallow, immature woman she was, desperately trying to look hot in the morning as opposed to looking like a normal woman.
-- In case I have forgotten, cupping a man's balls is more likely to make a man feel vulnerable? LOL. You really are a desperate woman. Yeah, maybe if you cup them with an iron spiked glove and are twisting them around.
If a woman can cup a man's balls and blow him, she can take her bra off.
I have never felt vulnerable when a woman has "cupped my balls"...and in case *YOU* have forgotten, he *ASKED* her to...so why would he feel vulnerable when he asked for it?
You are a silly woman.
-I won't start writing advice columns...provided you stop reading your Cosmo "50 reasons he does not like you" type articles, you silly girl.
-There can be as many "indications' as you like, but the fact is, the bra did not come off merely because Wiig did not wish to go topless.
Nice try.
Oh and by the way....why is she topless in the car when she drives by Rhodes to get his attention with Hellen, yet has her hands over her nipples?
Hmmmmmmm...she is comfortable with Rhodes now and trusts him, is trying to get him to arrest her for indecent exposure, yet does not show her nipples...so, no indecent exposure.
Your laughable little intimacy theory has come crashing down.
Just grow up. Wiig did not want to be topless and for some reason, you cannot handle it.
"Sudden appearance," flashwok? Suppose you explain to me how one makes a gradual appearance on a board or what makes that more acceptable or normal?
Wiig did not want to take her top off, plain and simple, as is her right.
You desperately trying to make more into it is hysterical, especially considering your sudden appearance and emotional lectures on this board.
Oh, revealing her "smallish boobs" would have left her vulnerable? Give me a break.
I have slept with over 40 women
not *ONE* ever left their bra on while wearing nothing else.
the poor quality of the sex had nothing to do with her bra being on
Stop trying to pretend that the bra was left on *TWICE* to make some larger emotional statement.
Her trip to the bathroom was indicative what a shallow, immature woman she was, desperately trying to look hot in the morning as opposed to looking like a normal woman.
cupping a man's balls is more likely to make a man feel vulnerable? LOL. You really are a desperate woman. Yeah, maybe if you cup them with an iron spiked glove and are twisting them around.
If a woman can cup a man's balls and blow him, she can take her bra off.
he *ASKED* her to...so why would he feel vulnerable when he asked for it?
you silly girl.
the bra did not come off merely because Wiig did not wish to go topless.
Oh and by the way....why is she topless in the car when she drives by Rhodes to get his attention with Hellen, yet has her hands over her nipples?
"Sudden appearance," flashwok? Suppose you explain to me how one makes a gradual appearance on a board or what makes that more acceptable or normal?
Nowhere did I say that one reason nullifies another. It could well be that the actress didn't want to expose her breasts onscreen. However, the fact remains that we are given ample narrative and visual clues as to why she's wearing a bra in that scene and she is most definitely NOT wearing a bra in her morning-after scene with Rhodes. The clues are there; it's up to the viewer to supply the judgment and maturity required to draw the appropriate conclusions.
Any neutral reader of this thread will note that the only one getting overwrought on this thread is you. Why is that? Why are you THAT upset?
This is directly alluded to in the outtakes with the overweight British roommate.
I know this will come as quite a shock to you, but a rom-com is not meant to portray life as it really appears to us. The rom-com camera is not a posted surveillance camera. I've never seen bridal parties or bathroom scenes or mid-air panics like the ones in this film nor do I ever expect to. However, in a hyperbolic way, at least some of these scenes convey deeper truths about the absurdity of weddings, life, relationships.
I never said it did. The bra is just another indication of the poor quality of the sex.
Was she wearing her bra during sex with Rhodes? Yes or no?
Does her character grow? If so, how? Who is the agent of change?
I dare say most men will own up to a certain feeling of vulnerability while leaving their balls in someone else's hands.
You don't understand what's at issue here. She is depressed and suffering from low-self esteem. Cupping a man's balls and blowing him are not acts that induce SELF-consciousness, that is, consciousness of SELF. Appearing without a bra does. It causes her to imagine Ted's gaze on her imagined shortcomings, to worry that Ted will see her as she really is, i.e. inadequate.
Because he trusts her not to do him irreparable harm. But lying there naked with your balls in someone else's hands is ipso facto a position of vulnerability.
Is it my rationality that has you so upset or does it have something to do with this movie?
She's not in his house, she's out in the open and she's not alone.
Case closed.
Oh, my god. Look into relaxation exercises, or, I don't know, psychiatry.
shareSeriously. Boards like these seem to attract lonely misogynist types.
Thanks for your post, btw. I hadn't considered listening to the DVD commentary, but on second thought, I think it might be fun.
I didn't listen to it; I just saw that item in the IMDb trivia section.
shareWell, thanks for alerting us to it.
I did get around to listening to the comment in question. For those who are interested in what Paul Feig, the director, actually has to say in his DVD commentary, it comes at around the 1:13 plus mark: [Feig addressing Wiig] "what I like about this is that this is the first time you open up to a man, the first time you’re not wearing a bra."
Oh really Simone? These boards attract lonely misogynist types?
That is hysterical, that just because I did not share your hysterical emotional attachment to this strictly run of the mill, mildly above average film, wityh a few funny and clever moments, I am a misogynist?
Laughable.
When I want to watch women, I'll select brilliant women like Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Julianne Moore and a host of other women not starring in absurd tripe that you are desperately trying to turn into a treatise on womanhood.
It is amusing you have accused me of misogyny, because you cannot handle teh fact that Wiig did not want to take off her top and that there was no emotional/story related reason for it and that some people did not find this to be the life changing experience you seem to have.
Maybe these boards also attract lonely women who need to start 4 threads and jabber on about a run of the mill love interest in a comedy chick flick.
Keep up the great work. Write back when you actually derive deeper insights from far better films.
Have you ever stopped to consider that a. this an imdb message board so it's not a big deal and you don't have to get so worked up/take this so seriously, and b. maybe not only did Kristen not want to go full on topless but she thought it would be both amusing and symbolic for the character to actually be in a colored bra during every scene with her fk buddy? There's not simply one explanation for everything. Sometimes there can be a little more to a situation.
shareI will Thomasina...as soon as you and your pals stop associating this movie with some kind of incredible cinematic emotional experience.
Go away you silly girl.
You appeared "suddenly" posted 4 new threads on this board immediately and went into hyperdrive in "Rhodes worship".
Suppose you explain to us what necessitated this burst of activity,
There are no narrative or visual clues.
the outtakes showing her topless with the Hamm character totally kills your argument.
In the DVD commentary, it is mentioned that Paul Feig and Kristen Wiig made a deliberate decision for Annie to keep her bra on during her sex scenes with Ted (John Hamm) but to have her take it off during her sex scene with Nathan (Chris O'Dowd) as a way of symbolizing that Annie feels she can open up emotionally (as well as physically) to Nathan in a way that she can't to Ted.
lying there with your cooch hanging out is vulnerable too, yet she does it.
desperate emotional cripples like you
Raging again, flashwok? What sort of a "man" is threatened by a woman posting about a rom-com []
The actor was chosen specifically for his looks and charismatic qualities. Yes or no?
Rom-coms specialize (straightforwardly and/or ironically) in themes related to ideal romantic types and idealized notions about romance and friendship. Yes or no?
Then on both these grounds, the threads are wholly merited, not to mention fun for Rhodes fans, however many or few of those there may be. If they annoy you, don't look at them. Easy solution there, friend.
Are you kidding? My husband and I recently watched the movie and enjoyed it. He doesn't have an IMDb account; I opened one not long ago.
1. Annie goes to the bathroom to freshen up in order to gull Ted into believing she has woken up fresh-smelling and tidy.
2. Annie doesn't effectively assert her sexual needs and desires.
3. Annie craves intimacy but fears conveying the honest expression of her needs and vulnerabilities to Ted.
4. Annie opens up emotionally to Rhodes. She exposes her unattractive qualities, risking rejection.
5. The bra comes off in the lovemaking between Annie and Rhodes.
6. Annie starts believing in herself again.
Pathetically, you tried to dodge point #1 with the lame suggestion that all the filmmakers were after was the revelation that Annie was shallow and superficial.
Is that the point of this rom-com?! To show that she's shallow?
And if that were in fact true, how do you see her evolving emotionally, if at all? Oh, that's right. You answer that further down: "she stops being an idiot."
Brilliant. *sigh* I don't know why I waste my time. But some posts are so thunderingly stupid one wonders if just a little nudge will get the poster to rethink things. Not in your case, alas.
Maybe that's one reason they're outtakes. They don't recapitulate the central themes as effectively as do the scenes in which Annie is in a bra. Again, nowhere have I argued against the suggestion that Wiig may have been reluctant to go topless. My argument is that the decision makes excellent narrative sense.
Funny that you credit outtakes but dismiss this salient fact: In the DVD commentary, it is mentioned that Paul Feig and Kristen Wiig made a deliberate decision for Annie to keep her bra on during her sex scenes with Ted (John Hamm) but to have her take it off during her sex scene with Nathan (Chris O'Dowd) as a way of symbolizing that Annie feels she can open up emotionally (as well as physically) to Nathan in a way that she can't to Ted.
Some low-esteem women are less critical of their cooches than their breasts.
It's obvious from your hysterical overreaction that you are emotionally disturbed.
Seek help.
I found Nathan charismatic...you sound pretty lonely. Maybe you should go out and date instead of arguing with people on imdb.
-- I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
What a bizarre thread!!
Look pretty simple to me, the bedroom . . . antics between Annie and Ted just wouldn't have worked had she not been wearing a bra, it wouldn't have been so purely adolescent, it would have been more soft porn that goofy.
^ this
(Not just lonely, but clueless. )
Stopped reading your lengthy rant when it became clear you are not interested in a discussion, but in personal attacks against women who can't possibly know more about women than you do.
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This thread is hilarious..
honestly I dont know who's funnier..
the guy who's a little too overzealous to rip this movie down, or the chick trying to make this movie look like Citizen Kane....
If there be a god...than hide from him our most evil enterprise!
I am hardly overzealous. I gave the movie a 6...it was enjoyable, had some funny spots, but overall missed the mark.
I have no desire to tear it down, I just find the preposterous acclaim that some give it as something more than a funny-in-spots chick flick to be an issue worth disagreeing with.
Nice you found it entertaining. I got so alternatingly irritated and bored I put him on ignore.
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This question has now been definitively answered here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1478338/board/thread/198411998?d=199479778 #199479778
The director has the final word.
lol....yet the director still shot the scene with her topless with John Hamm.
Which means he is full of it, just as Weig is, since the topless scene is in the original shooting script.
Ergo, that is something that they decided to claim later.
nice try Simone...I notice you bumped your "Rhodes as consummate lover and companion" threads...strange that nobody else sees him as some historically amazing character.
Nope. Comedic outtakes like those are nothing more than improv and experimentation that didn't pass muster. It's what's in the final product that counts. Upon further reflection, Feig and company apparently decided that those scenes didn't serve the characters, narrative and/or central themes as well as the shoot that did stay in. (I've already explained why that would be so, at greater length than I would have thought necessary).
The incongruous presence of a bra in an otherwise porn-like sex scene sets up the character and the problematic quite economically: as we are first introduced to her, Annie is lying to herself and others.
Once again, you lose.
P.S. Not sure why you're grinding your teeth over this, but Rhodes is a noteworthy and demonstrably charming character. The proof can be found not so much in message board traffic for a movie that came out last year, but in the boost that it gave to actor Chris O'Dowd's reputation and career.
First time ever posting on an IMDB board - to tell you you are right, Simone, and to also tell you that flashwok clearly isn't interested in learning anything about sexual issues for women. I admire your patience in trying to educate this guy, but he is clearly set on putting you down rather than being open to the possibility that stuff may sometimes be going on in the bedroom (or wherever) that he isn't aware of because it happens in the mind of the woman he is with. He's the kind of guy who doesn't think any of the women HE has slept with has faked an orgasm.
I get the clear impression that you (Simone) are one of those people who are confident enough in yourself to be open to the possibility of being wrong - just notice how you reiterate aspects on which you concede that flashwok may have a point, whereas he is constantly hurling insulting notions at you in response to your arguments.
For the record and just to prove that at least ONE women out there doesn't fall within flashwok's curiously confident convictions about how and when ALL women feel confident showing their boobs in bed: despite spending decades of trying to learn to love them, I still have a strained relationship with my breasts. I never liked the way they look and I still don't, even though I realize on an intellectual level that they are fine as they are. Even in long-term, emotionally trusting relationships where I have engaged in sexual acts of a nature that my mother would blush profusely at and my grandmother wouldn't know even existed, I have been known to sometimes prefer to wear a bra.
While I no longer experience the constant obsession with (and denigration of) my physical appearance that I did as a teenager, it does happen from time to time that my superficial notion of the ways in which my boobs are lacking in physical perfection wins the battle with my intellectual insistence on appreciating my body as is. On such a day, I prefer to keep my bra on during sex (I have never faked an orgasm, however).
We all have insecurities, whether of a physical, emotional or intellectual nature. Flashwok's main one seems pretty obvious: he is stuck in the macho notion that knowing everything about women's sexuality is what makes a 'real man'. Pity he doesn't realize that such a conviction really just shows that he's a boy trapped in man's body - and that it's the confidence to accept that you can always learn more that is the hallmark of a truly mature adult, inside and out.
Well MNC 2103, I cannot tell you how refreshing it is to hear from someone who actually *KNOWS* they are right. I mean, you *OBVIOUSLY* speak for all women, right? Just because you have issues with your breasts does not mean all or even most women do.
As for sexual issues, spare me your desperate attempts to paint me as some type of a misogynist, because I did not buy into a poorly written account of a sexual relationship in a rom-com.
My issues with the absurd depiction in this movie has nothing to do with my views on women's insecurities in real life.
Sorry.
Of the dozens of women I have been fortunate enough to date or have a merely physical relationship with, *NONE* of them, even the ones with breasts that perhaps may not have been ideal, or large enough, *EVER* left their bra on...*EVER*
As I have always done, a woman's pleasure is important to me. I ask questions, never rush, never push a woman into anything and never try and do anything other than to make her feel special.
When a woman decides to allow you to sleep with them, it is a privilege and an expression that she likes you enough to do something intimate with you.
That is a very rewarding experience.
As such, I am not the type of man who takes that lightly. I have an obligation to find out what my lover likes and does not like and I go about it dilligently, kindly and with respect.
Just because I do not buy the BS that Simone is slinging about this shallow rom-com and the phony suggestion put forth about the bra/sex to cover for the story inadequacies, does not give you the right to lie about me, since you do not know me at all.
Simone "concedes" I "may have a point"? LOL. Where?
There are operative facts that I have pointed out and they are not up for debate.
Ratings and not wanting to be topless are the reasons behind this particular angle and your friend Simone and now you are bending over backwards to try and make a huge emotional issue out of an oversight that was then conveniently glossed over and "molded" by the director in his self-serving and phony commentary.
As for my "curiously confident" conviction, I never stated they applied to "all women". I stated that in my experiences with dozens of women not once did one not take off her bra for sex.
*YOU* may not like and accept your breasts, but the point of this thread is not *YOU* and your issues. It was a phony character, who now we are supposed to believe had breast issues, which allegedly led to her insecurity and leaving her bra on...
yet strangely, if this was so important, you'd *THINK* this would be mentioned at some juncture as a critical plot point in Annie's learning to trust...supposedly a major moment of realization and triumph over insecurity yet it is never mentioned *ONCE* in the movie. It just appears...suddenly.
She never mentions it to Ted, who as an obnoxious male "player" would certainly say something about it if it was an issue, since he made fun of her dental work and was probably obtuse enough to say "why is she wearing a bra". So why does he say nothing?
Why does she never mention this to Lillian, her best friend? We hear no mention of her breast issues, or them being too small or indicating that any of her issues are physically-related.
They merely left it ambiguous and now try and say it was some big emotional moment with Rhodes...
so if it was so big and so important a triumph over her insecurity, why don't they show her take the bra off with Rhodes? Pretty major event in her maturity yes? they did not even show her do it from the back. They just moved on.
Because they never meant it in the first place.
Because it is a convenient excuse for Wiig not going topless and for Simone, and now you to shout it from the mountain tops even though it had nothing to do with anything and is not evidence of some deeper emotional depth to this rom-com.
You claim that "I have been known to sometimes prefer to wear a bra." Which means that you don't always. Which means that clearly, you are not over it, which means that there is no magical panacea where suddenly the bra comes off and a woman's body issues, in Annie's case allegedly, disappear suddenly.
Go *beep* yourself with your obnoxious and off base insults about my "macho notion". I have never said a word to you and now you pretend to know me and what I believe, just because I do not believe a ridiculous, unworkable scenario in a romantic comedy that does not match up with psychology, plot or the question women in film must endure with regards to taking their top off?
Who are you to insult anybody, but a girl so messed up in her own head she cannot even love her breasts and accept herself?
IF that was what the Annie character had been dealing with and had been portrayed, i'd have no problem with it...but it *ISN'T*...it is a patch/band-aid to get around some script weaknesses and the desire not to be topless on screen, while still needing to portray three sex scenes on camera.
What makes a real man, in bed, is listening and learning about what a woman likes and is into in bed, so screw you, you insecure little girl. I love and adore women...sorry if I do not buy a built in excuse for a scene not working in a romantic-comedy and sorry that you can judge my entire history, knowing nothing about me, except that I disagree with a poorly constructed character in the film.
Maybe you should leave your bra on and work on coming to grips with yourself instead of lecturing me. I have dealt with plenty of women with insecurities and managed to always caringly work with them through issues and there are *PLENTY*. A woman can find has many insecurities with herself as she has thoughts in her head. It is a maddening labyrinth...from obsessing about a bit of cellulite, to not being "able" to wear sleeveless dresses because they are obsessed with their upper arms,
Whatever honest way to deal with it, I deal with it. I worked for a fashion magazine where all day long all i heard was women obsessing about their weight, their boobs, their legs, their butts...it *NEVER* stops. I deal with anything that comes up as honestly and warmly as possible.
Don't tell me what I think of women just because I found a rom-com absurd in a couple of places.
If i want to watch a real movie about real women dealing with real crippling insecurities or heavy emotions, I'll watch Dolores Claiborne, or Monster.
Until then I guess I'll be a boy in a man's body...who is okay with all his little imperfections and has tried his best always to make any woman happy and feel good by being as open and honest as possible and willing to try and do new things...unlike the girl in a woman's body like you, who cannot accept the shape of her mammary glands because she has such a low opinion of herself because of what the fashion or makeup industry has told her about herself.
Get over it and grow up. Keep your nasty little spleen venting to yourself next time you come after someone who has done nothing to you.
Maybe spend more time dealing with your breast issues, then whining about someone's accurate and factual views and points on a poorly constructed, falsely stated semi-narrative in a movie.
You write that "As for my "curiously confident" conviction, I never stated they applied to "all women". I stated that in my experiences with dozens of women not once did one not take off her bra for sex."
Well, I disagree with your assertion of what you have and have not claimed before. You did write that "If a woman can cup a man's balls and blow him, she can take her bra off". Giving my own example was an attempt to let you know that you are wrong about that. And I did make clear that I was giving ONE example, not speaking for all women - but that one example is enough in itself to shatter your assertion that somehow wanting to wear a bra is incompatible with being willing to get very intimate physically with a man.
As for not having issues with my breasts, I have tried for 20 years to appreciate them for what they are, but so far I have been incapable of being successful 100 percent of the time. Most days I think they are just fine, but from time to time insecurity takes over (which is when I wear a bra). By the way, this has less do with whether I am with a long-term boyfriend or someone I've just met, although it happens much more rarely with the former. You can argue that this makes it a less than perfect analogy to the Wiig's character's situation since that centers on whether she feels comfortable with Hamm, and you'd be right - my point was not to argue that I sometimes wear a bra for the same reasons that Simone has argued might be to blame for Wiig's character wearing one in the scene with Hamm, rather, my point was to argue that, whatever their reason, there are women who wear bras in bed while engaging in sex that involves otherwise very high levels of physical intimacy.
As for actresses and their not wanting to show their breasts in movies: you may be absolutely right that this is the reason Wiig is wearing a bra in the scene with Hamm (which is a point, btw, that Simone conceded you might be right on). I was merely trying to point out that there MAY be other reasons for a woman wearing a bra in bed than her being in the middle of shooting a movie and not wanting to flash her boobs for all moviegoers to see.
By the way, it's rare that we see actresses wearing bras in bed in movies, but we're often not 'allowed' to see their boobs. If allowing Wiig to keep her boobs to herself was the main objective, the director could've just shot the scene with her on top from the back or let the camera stay on her face and shoulders which has been done many times before to avoid showing an actress' boobs in a movie. Never mind the oft-used option of not-so-cleverly placing lamps/bedding/flailing hands in front of the boobs.
Ah Simone...
Your thrilling narrative aside, Simone, sorry...those were hardly "improv and experimentation".
In fact, none of the first sex scene with Hamm(and a great deal of other things) were even in Annie Mumolo's original script.
go ahead and read it.
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Bridesmaids.html
So sorry, once again you lose.
They simply injected this absurd bra issue because Wiig did not want to go topless period but they wanted to put in the crazy sex scene with Hamm.
The original two sex scenes were not even in the original script...along with the fact that they actually go to Vegas.
and by the way...since you have inferred that there are issues with Annie due to the bra in the porn scene, please explain then why you do not see her *EVER* take off her bra for the sex with Rhodes.
You of course have conveniently ignored that we *NEVER* see Annie topless, having sex with Rhodes. Go watch the scene again.
They fall to the bed, making out, clothes start coming off (Rhodes)...cut to next morning. Wigg is in bed, topless, but she is covered up with the blankets when Rhodes sees her.
As such, there is no proof whatsoever she took off the bra during sex.
Do you sleep in your bra? No. She could have taken it off to sleep after the sex.
She also does not show Rhodes her breasts when she is driving around "topless" in public.
She also hooks up with a college kid and gets in a fight with his girlfriend the next morning, when she is found in bed with him, while in Vegas in the original script. She was drunk...same as with Rhodes.
So please spare me Annie's whole opening of the heart and trusting Rhodes.
It is a lame construction so ladies like you will buy the character development that was not there in the film. They knew it would go over better to say that, then to say leave the scene in a Vegas stripclub where a male stripper puts Annie on the stage, than simulates sex with her with his balls hanging out of his G-string, to the point where ball sweat falls from his testicles inter Annie's open laughing mouth. Of course she then contracts body lice.
None of this braless "awakening" was ever intended. They needed an excuse for the sex scenes/topless car shoot not being actually topless and knew women like you would buy the line of reasoning they substituted for it. That was not the intention of Annie in the original script, or the shooting script, since they shot her topless in the first sex scene.
It is also "noteworthy" that you did not mention that Annie was drunk in her scene with Rhodes...so, Ms. Psychology, was she truly becoming more secure? How do you know, since when you are drunk your inhibitions are gone? As I said...we never saw her topless, having sex with Rhodes. So was it the booze, or your desperately longed for opening to the dynamic cinematic lover and ex-patriate, officer Rhodes?
And by the way...in the original script, she never sleeps with Rhodes.
As for Rhodes being a "noteworthy" and "demonstrably charming" character...Sorry the fact that Chris O'Dowd is getting more roles is no proof of anything regarding Rhodes' place in cinematic history as the dynamic lover you seem to think he is. He is not noteworthy. Nobody is singing this character's praises so obsessively as you.
Plenty of people have terrible roles, then still go on to get noticed in Hollywood.
It means he has a good agent....not that he is some major force in the history of romantic leading men.
Once again, you are desperately trying to make more out of this movie than it is.
You do know that saying "you lose" doesn't automatically mean you win, right?
And being condescending doesn't make you any smarter.
You do know that saying "you lose" doesn't automatically mean you win, right?
And being condescending doesn't make you any smarter.
This thread is funnier than the movie.
shareFlash wok I think you are getting mixed up with reality and films.
Films (and novels) operate by using symbolism and metaphors at times.
In this film, bridesmaids, as had been pointed out - one of the symbols used is that wiig keeps her top on with the horrible guy (sorry forgot his name), as she doesn't want to 'reveal' herself, both literally and figuratively. She doesn't feel safe she doesn't trust him, she's kidding herself that she could have a real relationship with him.
In real life, as you point out, a woman may or may not take her bra off during sex. That's neither here nor there and has no baring on this film.
As to the whole issue of feeling safe and giving a blow job- people can do all sorts of sexual things and distance themselves easily from the act. They can do them without making themselves feel vulnerable.
The symbolism in the film is that she didn't want to be naked in from of him.
It's possible wiig also didn't want to reveal her breasts, in fact likely as with Rhodes she covered herself with s blanket. So the 2 points actually can both be true!
God you sound like a complete douchebag. Shut up.
shareFunny thing, too, because in case viewers like you didn't recognize those two signs, the screenwriters threw in a third: Annie's early morning trip to the bathroom to rinse her mouth and reapply her lipstick.
So the reported reason is BS, but your conclusion is the accurate based on your own subjective assumption. What an amazing detective you are!
"The symbol for pi is 3.41? What self-serving BS. It's just so Joseph Pi would have something to talk about at parties."
Prude actresses.
shareUmmmmm you were supposed to be cringing.
sharea women who's being filmed doing a sex scene in front of a bunch of strangers but doesn't actually want to show her breasts... that's who has sex with a bra on
shareagreed. only reason she had a bra on was because she didnt want to show her breasts.
its like when she woke up and was covering her breasts with the blanket. really? because the guy didnt already see them?
whatever ... its a movie.
What part of the sex scene was SUPPOSED to be REALISTIC?
shareI bet tons of women keep their bra on because they probably have a bigger chest that keeps bouncing and it hurts your breasts eventually (well, of course, if you're on top).
shareEh, not that unbelievable to me. I sometimes wear a bra during sex.
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