Not like bathing in the movies

[coppertopp]

How come every movie I ever see shows people bathing in these huge tubs that they can sink all of their body parts into simultaneously? Even characters living in POS rat traps have big tubs in the movies. I've never lived in a place that had a tub like that. But I have a plan, see? When we move into a house (whenever that is) I am getting one

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[suzycat]

I'm quite tall, though not much taller than most movie stars pretend to be (all female movie stars are "5ft 7", right?) and in my old place-but-one, there was a big old clawfoot bath. I could submerge all my body parts if I pretended my knees were not body parts. Only in movies have I *ever* seen those huge deep tubs that you could realistically drown in quite easily if you dozed off.

I think you should write a scene in a screenplay that somehow includes bathing in a normal person bath, in which all the lack of deep soaking ability is integral to the scene and which we can all watch on the DVD extras after it is, inevitably, cut from the final product. That is what I think.

[coppertopp]

there was a big old clawfoot bath. I could submerge all my body parts if I pretended my knees were not body parts.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Knees definitely don't count. If you can submerge everything else, that's completely acceptable. Not that I would object if the house happened to have an even bigger one.

I am SO writing a scene like that. I'll leave it to the director to figure out how to shoot it and not get slapped with an NC17 rating. *eg* King's Bastard had a bath scene, but it was the king bathing, so I assumed he would have a tub big enough for everything but the knees. Otherwise, what's the point of being king?

[thefreak]

I have a very strange image in my head now of you with absurdly proportioned breasts taking up most of a bathtub...

[darknessorlight]

^ What he said.

And could be worse. At my height, I'll never fit into any bathtub.

[coppertopp]

The tub at Erik's parents' house in Mexico would be big enough for you to stretch out in. Hell, it's big enough to fit half a football team in. I used it when I was there, and they had never used it ever, so there was still sand in the jets. It was a slightly more rustic experience than I had in mind, but whatever. A bath is a bath. As long as there are bubbles or a bath bomb involved, it's all good. Adds to the exfoliation.

[coppertopp]

Like one of those prehistoric Earth Mother figurines where the boobs are bigger than the body? Probably not very accurate, although it does sometimes feel like that.