Tuesday, March 20, 2007

WETLOOK



Wetlook on wikipedia.

That page links to this:

Wet sari scenes are an on-screen cliché in Bollywood films, in which clothed actresses are depicted in wet saris that cling to their bodies. This functions as a proxy for nudity in mainstream Indian cinema, where nudity is taboo.
According to Pooja Makhijani, in an interview with rediff.com:
"Bollywood is wonderfully escapist. And completely comforting, as nothing really changes. Every blockbuster has at least one of the following: a wet sari scene, an over-the-top dance number with hundreds of mustachioed extras, an overbearing patriarch, pehla pyar (first love), and a wonderfully choreographed fight sequence in which the police show up the second the bad guys are down and out."

My favorite new form of censorship in American movies is when they cover the nipple with a pastie or airbrush out the nipple in post. This is becoming a fad by which younger starlets get to do their risky nude scenes, and still keep their sacred nipples undercover and mysterious. They also make their breasts look comically weird.

And I like the idea of people who get off on pixelation. Those who derive excitement from the site of a person's private areas being distorted by pixels in the media.

1 comment:

maxval said...

thanks for posting my photo... :-)