Tony may have confused "garland fig-leafing" with "flat-chestedness":
* The female centaurs in that sequence were originally bare-breasted,
but the Hays office insisted that discreet garlands be hung around
their necks.
(I guess it helps if you've actually seen the movie.)
... Hey, how about the mermaids in Disney's Peter Pan? (And Tinkerbell's
figure leaves little to the imagination; and wasn't there an erotic
spanking
scene, which caused her to shed fairy dust?)
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Sidaway [mailto:minorityreport@bluebottle.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:39 AM
To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Titanic, illustrated
Poor, Edmund W said:
the
semi-fig-leafed scene where
Jack draws his new girlfriend, are not central to the
movie. Even
though they are real crowd-pleasers, the plot would not
have suffered
by editing the car scene so that the
frantically-excited couple are
merely shown getting into the car and doing some intense necking
(leave something to the imagination). And the drawing scene
would have
worked just as well with PG-type fig-leafing
instead of the
tantalization of "Ohmygosh, is she really showing her wobbly bits?"
In my opinion, it would have severely dented the credibility
of the director to have given in more than he did to the
puritan sensibilities of the US domestic audience. Further
fig-leafing would have been as distracting to most audiences
as those disturbingly flat-chested female centaurs in Fantasia.