Sorry guys, could you do less sex scenes pls? Everytime i watch a movie, I’d like to have empathetic connection with the characters, and since I’m using arch btw, all the aformentioned scenes ruin all the immersion for me :(
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When a sex scene is necessary, that means it is warranted by the plot and is the best way to achieve the effect the film is going for. I expect every scene in a movie to be thematically relevant.
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There’s a reason I chose the term thematically relevant. The creator of that movie gets to decide what those themes are. Different things will work in that movie depending on what kind of movie you want to make. I don’t like or dislike sex in movies. I just want it to be there or not be there for a good reason.
Is any sex scene necessary? No.
Exactly. That’s why movies don’t need them.
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They literally are though. Read fireweed’s comment
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Some action scenes are absolutely unnecessary to the story being told. Some sex scenes are unnecessary to the story being told. Some dialogs are unnecessary, redundant, or ruin the impact of a movie.
It depends on what the story is, the context of the rest of the movie, and the way everything is portrayed. And where exactly the line on the spectrum is will largely be up to personal taste and preference, but there are absolutely two sides of the spectrum.
Imagine porn without any sex scenes.
On one hand, I think you’re broadly correct.
On the other hand, I think a lot more people would notice how often sex scenes actually are simply gratuitous and taking up air time that could be better spent elsewhere if they were all gay sex scenes. Because goddamn, seeing the same boring straight sex scene hamfisted into a bunch of movies gets old real fast if it’s not sexy to you.
“We’ve”? You may internalize whatever you’d like, but I don’t think judging sex scenes by necessary or unnecessary is even a realistic metric at all. Movies are an art form. That’s like saying, Renoir had to many extra people in his paintings, not all of them were necessary. I personally prefer more explicit sex scenes woven into movies about intimate relationships and I think watching something like a tiger disembowling someone is in my opinion less than necessary. Just show the tiger and then maybe a body bag or something. But that’s completely just a personal preference, no we shit.
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I disagree that a lot of society has “internalized this”. Perhaps Lemmy and other social media bubbles may lead you to believe this, but the sample sizes are ridiculously skewed. It’s like saying a lot of people love Arch Linux. Well, yeah, on Lemmy they do! But that’s not the real world. I just think we statements broadcast to a bunch of strangers on the internet are a bad idea in general.
Sex scenes can absolutely feed a narrative purpose, like in Game of Thrones where it’s almost always a political motivation or has a greater meaning to it. However, if I wanted to watch two people have sex, I would go to a different site to watch it/wouldn’t go to a movie theater for it.
People aren’t upset about sex scenes, they’re upset about unnecessary ones.
