Donald Clarke: Hollywood’s treating us like infants. And too many of us like it that way
. So you are about to be told, anyway . A month or two ago the Guardian speculated about the “This follows much chatter about an alleged new puritanism among younger people. Legions of youthful Witchfinders General gather online to talk about sex scenes not being “necessary?” , announced he had asked the showrunners to decrease the number of sex scenes out of respect for his wife, there was a lot of rallying around his supposed cause. No blame attaches to Badgley here.
Ha ha! The medium will show those spineless Zoomers. By February we’ll be back to the 1970s. This century’s equivalent of Norman Mailer will be queuing up to see this century’s equivalent of Deep Throat in upmarket cinemas. The queasy dairy-enhanced coupling of Last Tango in Paris will have its own torrid reincarnation. And so on.
So are we seeing pushback against the new prudishness? Is the industry again allowing adults the opportunity to savour all the lubricious squelch of human experience?In truth, art-house and independent films never fully backed away from sexuality. Risky, adventurous cinema was there if you sought it out. What changed was the mainstream.
Fifty years ago the year’s US box-office top 10 included two of the most shocking films of the era. The Exorcist was at number one. Last Tango in Paris was at number eight. Such a situation would be inconceivable in 2023. We are being treated like infants. And too many of us like it that way.
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