I mean really? That sex scene at the beginning was just sooo wrong. I was cringing all the time.
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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.
Agreed OP. One of my biggest tv/movie annoyances. If you're going to have a sex scene either shoot it in such a way that you don't have to tell they're clothed (i.e. shoulders up that sort of thing) or find an actress that isn't a coward. Its just another one of the ways they've found to make sex in movies even less like sex is in real life. Bravo Hollywood.
"Walk down the right back-alley in Sin City, and you can find anything...."
I think it started on "Sex in the City" because I saw an interview with Sarah Jessica Parker where she said she looked scary without a bra on, therefore, you never saw Carrie braless.
I imagine there are other women who feel the same way, although I'm also sure that the advent of the Wonderbra has made it more common to wear a bra during sex than it was before.
Samantha
"I didn't say that. The camera must have misheard me!"
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The authoritative answer to this question by director Paul Feig was supplied many times in the thread.
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You're incredibly hard to take seriously jk. They deliberately had her keep her bra on to make a point, you dope. Read the trivia.
shareYet more proof that you had no idea what you were watching.
The director's explanation of the scene has been posted again and again on this thread. Not that it should have been necessary. The meaning of the sex scenes with Hamm should be clear to any adult who has even the slightest capacity to read a film.
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What are you, a child?
PLENTY of women keep their bra on during sex, hey sometimes I even keep my whole nightie on! Did you know you could even keep your panties on and still have sex. Lol i'll leave you to figure out how...
Ashmi any question
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I cannot believe how many people on here are angry that Kristen Wiig kept her bra on in this scene (not necessarily the op, just other responders). I get that men may question why a woman would do such a thing, especially if no one they've been with has ever done so. But flashwok especially seems really pissed about it, even to the extent of being insulting to people who express a reason or share their own experiences. The director has said that it was to show Annie's emotional state with her two different partners. Whether that was what was intended, or whether it came about because Kristen Wiig didn't want to expose her boobs and so they then chose to develop it into an emotional aspect doesn't matter, or at least shouldn't be a reason for all this vitriol.
Also, I don't usually make comments on posters personally, but I feel the need to make an exception in this case because flashwok is coming off as misogynistic. In this case it is because he is not giving women on this thread the same respect that I assume he would give men. He is telling women how they feel, as shown here:
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)And then when a woman dares to join the conversation to share her personal experience with leaving a bra on but still doing things that would be considered "indicative of trust and intimacy," he sarcastically says she "*OBVIOUSLY* speaks for all women," the exact thing he was doing just because no woman has ever left a bra on with him. He is also very insulting about her body issues, as if she has no right to express an opinion because she has body issues.
Flashwok knows everything about women! He's had sex with 40 of them!!!!! One or two didn't even require an air pump.
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