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Originally Posted by Helmhood
I have often wondered what the single longest (female) nude scene in movie was ... one of my aspirations as a filmmaker is to break it!
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Who cares? Any idiot with a camera and the money to pay a nude model can max that out.
The real trick is in doing it in a way that never becomes boring. Sadly, many directors manage to reach that threshold with the first frame. I sometimes found myself fearing that the excitement would always have to be in inverse proportion to the duration of the scene, because most 'mainstream' examples of embarrassment were incredibly short (such as the high-energy
Juiced commercial.) I feared that the instant surprise and shock might have been necessary components.
But you've already proved that mold can be broken; the question is how far can you take it? But it really doesn't make much sense to try to compare yourself to others; you're basically breaking new ground here.
I think the scenes in the Fantom Kiler movie were some of the longest sustained high-energy scenes I've seen so far. And I think neither the director nor the actresses were even really trying to capitalize on embarrassment per se. The Euro models acted more indignant than really embarrassed, and I think the director was just trying to take the titillation factor of the "teen slasher" type movies to extremes, along with the violence, for some kind of parody effect.
As I've said before, I for one wouldn't mind if you skimped quite a bit on the production values in order to give us more quantity. You know how film students turn out dozens of "experimental" films? When you're blazing a new trail you shouldn't be afraid to make as many wrong turns as necessary to learn through experience what works and what doesn't. I think a lot of us would be happy to watch (and in the process help subsidize) your journey.
(BTW, did you say before you had a lot of cutting room film lying around from Babysitter? If that includes nude scenes, I think a lot of us wouldn't mind paying a few bucks to see even the scraps.)