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There are probably numerous examples in pre-Code films but none that come to mind right now.  Doesn't Red-Headed Woman have some pretty blatant material?  



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>From: "Frank, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 28, 2007 11:13 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [SCREEN-L] sexual explictness query
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>[with the usual apologies for duplication]
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>in 1958 [north by northwest] eva marie saint says to cary grant
>something like "i have no plans for tonight and my book isn't very
>interesting" -- and we know she's inviting him to her bed . . . in 1971
>[play misty for me] jessica walter says to clint eastwood "right, no
>strings attached, but that doesn't mean we can't sleep together tonight
>if we want to" . . . while this may fall short of the "let's screw"
>which one might expect today, the increased explicitness clearly
>reflects the changes [in both sexual mores and codes of representation]
>that are a function of what have since come to call the sexual
>revolution of the sixties
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>it would be interesting to trace these changes, which leads to the
>question: can anyone cite earlier examples in mainstream cinema [i.e.
>films aimed at a mass audience] of this kind of sexual explicitness - or
>of later developments that raised the bar even higher [or lower,
>depending on your POV] . . .
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>thoughts??
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>mike
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