Romeo and Juliet Underage Nude Scene Court Case Dismissed

[lovelylaura23]

A judge said she will throw out a lawsuit over a nude scene in the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet,” after finding that the film is protected by the First Amendment.https://t.co/w8xjHRGumE
- Variety (@Variety) May 25, 2023

- Follow up to the first post- The Judge (more or less) doesn't consider nudity pornographic, by default

Comments

[januarysix]

I saw the Brooke Shields documentary and wasn't that the basis of them not classifying her nude at 10 years old pictures as CP? Basically because it's "art"?

[lovelylaura23]

Probably...its a fairly common defense.

I remember Cate Blanchett (or all people) defending some child nudity in photographs once years ago

"We should remember that an important index of social freedom, in earlier times or in repressive regimes elsewhere in the world, is how artists and art are treated by the state," said the letter.

"The intention of the art is not to titillate or to gratify perverse sexual desires, but rather to make the viewer consider the fragility, beauty, mystery and inviolability of the human body.

"The work itself is not pornographic, even though it includes depictions of naked human beings. It is more justly seen in a tradition of the nude in art that stretches back to the ancient Greeks, and which includes painters such as Caravaggio and Michelangelo."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/28/australia.art

[ydn1m]

So exploiting children's bodies is fine as long as it's art? Lmao

[lovelylaura23]

Honestly she genuinely has some of the worst takes....
Like apparently naming her kid after Polanski. 🤮

[genbu_no_miko24]

Sucks for the actors :(

[ydn1m]

How is it not sexually suggestive? Isn't the nude scene centered around their having sex even if the act isn't shown?

[lovelylaura23]

See what I mean by stunning tho:

[sintitulo]

it really is! i also find their performances to be fantastic.

[mhfromnh]

she is honestly the best Juliet we've ever had in screen

[babyyoda]

We had to watch that in school, always wondered how old they were because they look young for real

[picturemegone]

Same. I have a shit memory but I still remember the teacher ran up to the tv to cover up the nude scene with his newspaper.

[dull_and_wicked]

my school sent permission slips home to get our parents to sign off on us watching anything with nudity in it lol

[xtinkerbellax]

Yea I remember watching this and the Leo one in freshman english.