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From: pwallace@moviepig.com
On May 23, 7:21 am, Ubiquitous wrote:
> By John Horn
>
> It’s one of the strangest scenes in “Star Trek Into Darkness”: With no
> explanation or motivation, USS Enterprise visitor Carol (Alice Eve)
> strips down to her blue underwear, whereupon James T. Kirk (Chris Pine)
> sneaks a peek.
>
> Now, Damon Lindelof, who co-wrote the film’s screenplay, is apologizing
> for the gratuitous sequence — sort of.
>
> In an email interview with MTV, Lindelof was asked why the “Men in Black
> III” actress was obligated to show off her ripped body.
>
> “Why is Alice Eve in her underwear, gratuitously and unnecessarily,
> without any real effort made as to why in God's name she would undress in
> that circumstance? Well, there's a very good answer for that. But I'm not
> telling you what it is. Because... uh... MYSTERY?,” Lindelof wrote.
>
> He said there was a scene written for Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) to
> remove his shirt, but “I don’t think it ever got shot. You know why?
> Because getting actors to take their clothes off is DEMEANING AND
> HORRIBLE AND...”
>
> Lindelof touted the MTV admission on Twitter, first saying, “I copped to
> the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in
> our representation of a barely clothed actress,” and then joking, “We
> also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies. Do not want to make
> light of something that some construe as mysogenistic.”
>
> He followed that post with an apology for misspelling misogynist and by
> writing, “What I'm saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will
> be more mindful in the future.”
Afaik, there's appreciable difference between misogyny and gratuitous
sex.
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