The Notorious Bettie Page

[karohemd]

is very good, too.
Gretchen Mol is quite impressive and portrayed the transition from the shy country girl to the successful Pinup model who knows what she's doing very well indeed.
I liked the style of the film, too and the way they used different colour grading (grainy, shaky black and white; stark, high contrast b&w and faded Super 8 style colour) for the different aspects of the film. Some of her famous shoots were lovingly recreated, too.

Something surje mentioned afterwards made me think. The audience laughed at the ridiculous accusations of pornography, "perverting of adolescents" and other such nonsense during the hearing scenes but is it much different now? Yes, nowadays you see a lot more on the top shelf of every newsagent's but the issues are still there.
Then I realised the perfect example: The film was rated 18 and I have no idea why. No, hang on, I got it: there were about three scenes with bare breasts and one short full frontal nudity shot. All of these were absolutely harmless and even the BDSM scenes were just plain funny and ridiculous.
So, massacring thousands of people, skewering them, beheading them, blowing them to bits, all right in front of the camera gets a 12A (best example: the LotR films) but as soon as there's a nipple or a pube, it's an 18. Various people need their morals adjusted, I think.

On a lighter note, I leave you with two photos of another Bettie Page lookalike, puddingcat:

  

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it should be a 12A but an 18? I don't know.

Different standards and upbringing, I guess.

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

sexual themes and content, would you want your underage daughter or son watching films with that basis, glamourising nude modelling? If you let this one take a lower rating, it affects what else can be given a 15 rating.