[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Streaking Draco?

[Lanthiriel S]

--- Shaun Hately <drednort at alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> I apologise - I didn't mean to suggest for a moment
> that all 
> Americans felt this way - but I have noticed that
> the standards by 
> which movie ratings are given seem to me much less
> forgiving on 
> these issues in the US than in most English speaking
> countries - 
> and that's what I was referring to.

No, that's okay, I understand completely what you
meant. I tend to jump on things like that pretty
quickly these days, as I feel extra sensitive about
the global view of Americans given the messy state of
things. Sometimes the more liberal voices here are
drowned out and I often wish I had a loudspeaker to
announce to the rest of the world that we still exist!
;)

You're right, of course, that nudity does seem to be a
point of contention here while much worse things slip
beneath the public radar. I guess we have the good old
founding Puritans to thank for that. I don't have a
problem with nudity, and I don't think that in the
context of how it might be used in GoF that it would
raise much of an outcry. But it's true that an
enormous double-standard does seem to exist in
American film ratings. I heard no complaints about
"Peter Pan" - but had John and Michael been blown to
bits by automatic weapons, would there have been any
complaint either? I'm joking of course, but I'm afraid
violence is much more tolerated than the human body,
and that's very wrong.

The more I think about the possibility of this scene,
the more it makes sense to me - as someone on this
list has already suggested - that it would be
portrayed more through the expressions of the people
around Draco than by seeing anything much of Draco
himself. That would play on the comedy of the moment
more. Of course, this is all assuming that Tom wasn't
pulling some fangirl leg - which is too possible.

Lanthiriel

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