In the West this would obviously not be seen as a big issue. Of course! Thanks for memories, Gregg Araki Kaboom. In between this scene, it also cuts back to Ruby who is just casually rubbing one out on her couch. The point is audiences were horrified by the scene, perhaps failing to realize that was the entire point.

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James L. They met at a beach, and he hired her. And I thought it would be a mistake to make it that regional with her. So I changed the stage direction at the beginning, and I put off-off screen dialogue that said she was from Boston.


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There is lasting shame involved in this spectacle. Fast Times at Ridgemont High — Everybody remembers this scene because of the fantasy: Phoebe Cates emerges from a swimming pool in slow motion and removes her bikini top. There are other less memorable masturbation scenes involving liver and chicken, too. The reason that this movie is the more significant of the two is because the masturbation scene is very tastefully done, and yet in its original form, it controversially garnered the film an NC rating, only because, as argued in the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated , it deals with both homosexual desire and female sexuality. The main evidence: American Pie was released in the same year with an R rating.




Being There is a American satire directed by Hal Ashby. In , the United States Library of Congress selected Being There for preservation in the National Film Registry , finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in the townhouse of a wealthy old man in Washington, D.