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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid   
      
   moviePig sent the following on 5/23/2013 10:04 AM:   
   > 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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