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roguederek

I'm Fine

Jun 18, 2012 20:33

► For the past few days I seem to be in one of my blue periods, those semi-regular days when I get with feelings of loneliness, longing and sadness. Not that I'm wallowing in depression. I think I'm still mostly my usual affable self (if I can ever be described as affable), it's just a seasoning of melancholy.

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anonymous June 22 2012, 03:26:00 UTC

MalcolmD says: As Natalia Tena's character is a particularly savage woman living in a generally-uncivilized world, it made no sense whatsoever for her character to be so thoroughly-shaved, and I'm glad to hear that she recognizes that.

Then again, we might expect to see much worse maintenance of skin and teeth in such a world, and that's always the conflict: what concessions to modern aesthetics does one have to make in presenting the past (or something like it) to a present audience?

roguederek June 22 2012, 10:22:57 UTC

The current aesthetics, as you said, really have skewered stuff like this. The filmmakers behind the 2002 film Auto Focus (about the life and death of actor Bob Crane, spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s) had problems with casting the numerous nude women who pop up throughout the movie because they almost all have very modern breast implants, super toned bodies, and Brazilian waxes.

I can't think of the name at the moment but there was another movie that I remember having problems because it was a period piece with ample nudity where all the actresses were fully waxed when they shouldn't have been. Trouble is I'm blanking on what movie it was.

anonymous June 22 2012, 11:21:19 UTC

MalcolmD says: Would you recommend Auto Focus?

The other movie that you're thinking about may be The Reader starring Kate Winslet. You and I both know that she's had amazing hair in the past, but she had to wear a merkin for that one, apparently because she'd shaved and there was concern that she couldn't grow it back.

roguederek June 22 2012, 11:29:34 UTC

I love Auto Focus, I think it's a brilliant film both tragic and funny. So yes, I recommend it.

Regarding The Reader, that sounds a lot like the Mildred Pierce TV mini series Winslet did last year. Evan Rachel Wood had to wear a merkin for her nude scenes. I had commented about it in a journal entry over a year ago:

http://roguederek.livejournal.com/510852.html