{"id":344,"date":"2008-01-12T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/12\/ode-to-beowolfs-penis\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:51:44","slug":"ode-to-beowolfs-penis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/ode-to-beowolfs-penis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Beowolf’s Penis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I saw Beowolf 3D<\/i>—quite a technological feat. Most of the movie looked “real”; even the movement of the characters was very smooth. The nudity in the film was interesting, though. I think most people are familiar with the Hollywood nudity double standard<\/a>, but in Beowolf<\/i> it was pronounced to the point of being laugh-out-loud comical (to me, at least—I may have been the only one in the whole theater laughing). <\/p>\n

There’s one scene where Beowolf spends a considerable amount of time jumping around naked while fighting Grendel. The way they planned the storyboards, there was always something covering his penis, though: his other leg, the table, someone else, Grendel’s arm, a sword, the smoke from an explosion. It seemed as if everyone item and being in the room was in a joint conspiracy to say, “Quick! Hide Beowolf’s penis!” And yet when Angelina Jolie’s character appears, they have no qualms about showing her every inch… multiple times even. <\/p>\n

Really, what is so threatening about a glimpse of an animated penis? Why can’t the MPAA get past this? Well, at least the makers of Beowolf<\/i> made a good spectacle out of the double standard. The film would be a great archaelogical find for a freer society centuries from now. <\/p>\n

P.S. Robert Redford, this time the AMC theater did not show me any commercials beforehand, and yet they managed not to charge an extra $3 per person for such an “amenity.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I saw Beowolf 3D—quite a technological feat. Most of the movie looked “real”; even the movement of the characters was very smooth. The nudity in the film was interesting, though. I think most people are familiar with the Hollywood nudity double standard, but in Beowolf it was pronounced to the point of being… Continue reading Ode to Beowolf’s Penis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[66,914,230,249],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-race-class-gender-sexuality","tag-beowolf","tag-movies","tag-nudity","tag-penis","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}