Why does he always shy away from sex scenes?
They are always implied or tame.
ok you see a bit of nudity but when it comes to sex scenes you barely see any action. Whats that about especially as his film explore sexuality.
Mysterious skin only had off camera sex scenes and one sex scene of Joseph gordon levitt's upper body during a sex act on another man.
I kind of agree. Sex scenes don't have to be a necessity in a lot of films that include them anyway BUT a major theme of Kaboom was sexuality and I was surprised how little they showed, especially the tease that was the 3some scene.
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Because he's not making porn?
shareThe "Because he's not making porn" argument doesn't fly. David Lynch wasn't either with Mulholland Drive. Neither was Atom Egoyan with Chloe yet they both showed a lot.
shareOooooooooh, because the guy who made Chloe did it that way so it must be the rule, huh?
In what way does what 2 other filmmakers did on their films invalidate the way that a completely different filmmaker makes his films? Not to mention the fact that The Doom Generation is far more explicit in it's sex scenes than Mulholland Drive, not that it matters*. Kaboom's at the very least no less shy about it.
So in what way does that argument not fly because of 2 completely unrelated movies? Please explain, even in the slightest bit, what you could possibly mean by that.
*Because it doesn't. At all.
Seriously?? the Doom Generation explicit?
Man is your film viewing experience narrow!
Sex scenes in movies aren't porn. Porn is meant to tittilate and get you excited. Sex scenes are a means of telling a story about peple's sexuality. And seeing as thats a common theme in all Araki movies you would think he would spend a little attention on them.
I hate in movies where the actress in the sex scene is wearing a bra. Don't bother doing the sex scene at all if you are averse to nudity.
If you actually read what I said before, you would see that I wasn't calling The Doom Generation explicit. I said that it was more explicit than Mulholland Drive, because it is. You should pay more attention to what you're actually responding to before making assumptions about one's viewing experience.
"I hate in movies where the actress in the sex scene is wearing a bra. Don't bother doing the sex scene at all if you are averse to nudity."
This comment is irrelevant to the point that you're trying to make about Araki. Neither Doom Generation nor Kaboom's actresses seemed to have a problem with this at all. And I don't see how any more focus on the nudity and sex scenes was needed for the stories he's trying to tell. Unless the viewer is just looking for titillation.
The fact that 9 Songs used actual sex didn't magically make it a good movie.
I haven't even seen this flick, so I really shouldn't be commenting, but....
I don't think graphic nudity and aggressive sexual content is needed to tantalize and show insight. However, if the main theme of your movie is sexuality, and you have quite a few sex scenes, nudity does seem appropriate.
This seems to be a particular problem with American cinema. I have yet to see an American movie deal with young sex as explicitly and insight-fully as foreign flicks, particularly something like Y Tu Mama Tambien.
I don't disagree at all. The problem is that the movie in question has no problems with nudity or sexuality, and I think you would probably agree (it definitely has more on-screen than Y Tu Mama Tambien). I'm not sure why the OP brought up nudity in relation to this film or filmmaker, as it only muddles whatever point they were trying to make.
For the stories that Araki tells, which include sexuality but are never only about sexuality, there's definitely a healthy amount of screen time devoted to it.
Okay, I just saw the movie. It was sh*t. However, I don't really comprehend the issues the original poster has with this flick.
I just don't like this dude's movies. This wasn't erotic or funny or disgusting, just incompetent and dull. Even in "Mysterious Skin", which had moments of brilliance, the sexuality was exploitative rather than intrusive, and the supposed nuance felt tacked on.
even queer as folk had more graphic sex scenes than araki ever had.
sharethose saying araki can't film sex scenes are soo missing the point... He does that on purpose. Notice how much he focuses on their faces and how real the expressions on their faces are... Also he is not shy to show porn, like where the characters are watching porn. That's in a few of his movies as well, it's just that he doesn't show the characters' sex. That means no one can say it's because of prudeness or anything - it forces none to look deeper into the reasoning behind why he does what he does.
shareI've just seen this movie and totally loved it. Reading reviews i thought it was going to be very sexually explicit and was glad it was quite subtle. I adore the fact that he focuses on faces rather than boring bump and grind. Much, much more erotic and links sex with feelings which most movies don't bother to do. I am honestly so effing bored of seeing people in movies going at it. Most sex scenes are so unsexy it's ridiculous.
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