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In article ,
The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help
wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2013 08:53:51 -0400, Mason Barge
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 24 May 2013 18:49:14 -0700, BTR1701 wrote:
> >
> >>In article ,
> >> "Jim G." wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ubiquitous sent the following on 5/23/2013 6:21 AM:
> >>> > By John Horn
> >>> >
> >>> > Itıs one of the strangest scenes in ³Star Trek Into Darkness²: 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 filmıs screenplay, is apologizing
> >>> > for the gratuitous sequence sort of.
> >>> >
> >>> > In an email interview with MTV, Lindelof was asked why the ³Men in
> >>> > Black
> >>> > III² actress was obligated to show off her ripped body.
> >>> >
> >>> > ³Why 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?,² Lindelof wrote.
> >>> >
> >>> > He said there was a scene written for Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) to
> >>> > remove his shirt, but ³I donıt think it ever got shot. You know why?
> >>> > Because getting actors to take their clothes off is DEMEANING AND
> >>> > HORRIBLE AND...²
> >>> >
> >>> > Lindelof touted the MTV admission on Twitter, first saying, ³I copped
> >>> > to
> >>> > the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous
> >>> > in
> >>> > our representation of a barely clothed actress,² and then joking, ³We
> >>> > also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies. Do not want to
> >>> > make
> >>> > light of something that some construe as mysogenistic.²
> >>> >
> >>> > He followed that post with an apology for misspelling misogynist and by
> >>> > writing, ³What I'm saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will
> >>> > be more mindful in the future.²
> >>>
> >>> Damn, there's no shortage of oversensitive twits in the world, is there?
> >>
> >>And people who bend over backward to grovel before them and appease them.
> >>
> >>If it were me, I'd have just ignored the whiners, but if I responded at
> >>all, I'd have been like, "Hey, she's a beautiful girl. Maybe we could
> >>have done a little better working the scene into the story, but have you
> >>*seen* her? No way that was ending up on the cutting room floor."
> >
> >Or, "why'd they leave her bra and panties on? That's not realistic".
>
> Rilly. By then, there will be personal force fields that would negate
> the need for bras...
Or they'll just turn down the artificial gravity.
"In space, no one can hear you sag"
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