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   In article <9ihsp8tqpq1cmn6646lt33lbmgoma6o5l7@4ax.com>,   
    Mason Barge  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 23 May 2013 08:04:55 -0700 (PDT), moviePig   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >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.   
   >   
   > No kidding.  It may be a very soft-core pr0n but who the hell calls   
   > men wanting to look at women's bodies "misogynistic"?   
      
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