What about sex scenes?

LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/21/nymphomaniac-stranger-by-the-lake-sex-cinema

The article I have chosen is related to cinema. I had the idea to talk about a French film I saw last summer which name is “l’inconnu du lac” directed by Alan Guiraudie, but I found one very interesting that compares this movie and also Nymphomaniac (by Lars von trier), to talk about the reason of explicit sex scenes in this new age, and the opinion of the actors who perfom what the directors want.

The article starts mentioning that Nymphomaniac opens in cinemas that weekend. So that justifies the need to ask the actors about what they think of the increasingly graphic sex scenes in movies.

Some of the asked actors answered in a negative way. Many of them had second thoughts while they were performing. Many women felt like sluts or whores, they felt used as porn product, etc. Or even when the movies were released, they were all exposed to moral comments that complained about the real intensions behind those scenes.

Others saw deeper, I think, because they believed in what the directors wanted of them. They thought the scenes as an artistic way to show the “act”, and not as just more “porn”

In addition, these two films used doubles for the explicit scenes. The actors just had to pretend desire and love. The whole dirty part was given to the doubles, or in sometimes to prosthesis.

As a conclusion, I think that it really has to be a dramatic experience for some actors. But there is a huge difference between these two movies and porn. Porn is shot in a different way, and it is clear to me.

I invite you to see more about Lars von Trier and from Alan Guiraudie. Also there is a famous movie called “Blue is the warmest color” which can also be analyzed with this judgment.