This was a recent chat I had with a filmmaker friend of mine who wanted to see Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt, which features a briefly nude Brigitte Bardot.After seeing the first opening moments of the film, he excitedly exclaimed: "Woah! There's a nude woman!"
I said: "Well, don't be too happy just yet. They're only brief scenes in the opening minutes. "
"Oh, well."
"Ya, Godard put in the nudity just to please the studio. Because, well they had Bardot, and all audiences want with her is some skin. It would sell the film. People might feel cheated if they go to a Bardot movie and don't see any skin. So they pressured Godard for it."
"Man, I wish studios would give me that kind of pressure."
That filmmaker friend is cute.
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