[WikiEN-l] Titanic, illustrated

Fri Apr 15 11:39:02 UTC 2005

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.