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From: jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid
BTR1701 sent the following on 5/24/2013 8:49 PM:
> 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."
That would have been an awesome reply.
> And then sat back and watched the feminists' heads explode.
Lindelof is at the point where he's gonna try to be all things to all
people. And when that's not possible, he'll slight the people who he
thinks will be the most willing to quickly forgive him. And that rarely
works out well in the long run.
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