I watched JAWS II on TV the other night, and I was struck by how the filmmaker chose to depict very normal people with very normal physiques on the beach scenes.
Were it to be made today, everyone would have beautiful bodies and be fresh from the gym.
Instead we had skinny types and podgy types. I didn't see a single dancing-pec!!!
Now I had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I was disappointed in the lack of beautiful flesh (even the bikinied girls whose bottoms the Director's lens lingered upon lovingly were skinny rather than pneumatic-and-supermodel-gorgeous....) which I enjoy looking at as much as the next man.
On the other hand, it was kind of refreshing to see more normal body types without any kind of implied criticism.
It didn't inspire me to get-to-the-gym and sort-my-diet-out as the more modern trend of underwear-model-lovelies would probably have done, but as a reminder that we are all different shapes and sizes and that this is not a bad thing, it had a certain merit. And it didn't promote unrealistic standards.
Well... not for the humans anyway. Since Great Whites rarely grow longer than 18 feet these days and 25 feet tends to be unheard of in this day and age, perhaps there may be a few "White Pointers" feeling inadequate as a result of the Director's choices...
What does anybody else think?
Kind Regards
Dave
Were it to be made today, everyone would have beautiful bodies and be fresh from the gym.
Instead we had skinny types and podgy types. I didn't see a single dancing-pec!!!
Now I had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I was disappointed in the lack of beautiful flesh (even the bikinied girls whose bottoms the Director's lens lingered upon lovingly were skinny rather than pneumatic-and-supermodel-gorgeous....) which I enjoy looking at as much as the next man.
On the other hand, it was kind of refreshing to see more normal body types without any kind of implied criticism.
It didn't inspire me to get-to-the-gym and sort-my-diet-out as the more modern trend of underwear-model-lovelies would probably have done, but as a reminder that we are all different shapes and sizes and that this is not a bad thing, it had a certain merit. And it didn't promote unrealistic standards.
Well... not for the humans anyway. Since Great Whites rarely grow longer than 18 feet these days and 25 feet tends to be unheard of in this day and age, perhaps there may be a few "White Pointers" feeling inadequate as a result of the Director's choices...
What does anybody else think?
Kind Regards
Dave
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