PICS Is That For Real?! The Official Fake Images Thread

jean simmons (1960 Spartacus) ...



real?

 

Yup, it's real. I can't remember if this shot was included in the 1960 theatrical release, but it was intended for the film at the time. It might be included on the disk releases of Spartacus.

 

It was never intended for the actual film, as there was no way they could show breasts in a studio production at the time. It was staged for a Playboy feature, as it was frequent in the sixties. Playboy would get some exclusive with a few racy pictures that would help promote a movie. It definitely comes from the scene where her character takes a bath, but everything there stays under the line of the water.

 

The nude scenes were intended for the film. The censors cut two such scenes before release...along with some violence and suggestive dialog. Just because the censors removed them, doesn't make them unintended. BTW, which issue of Playboy has the pics? I can't seem to find them...

 

In 1960, when Spartacus was released, the 1934 Production Code was still in full force for nudity. The first major breach for mainstream productions happened in 1964 for The Pawnbroker, for quite a short shot involving Thelma Oliver. After negotiations, it got an exception from the MPAA, which actually paved the way for the Code falling apart during the second half of the decade, being replaced by something very close to the current rating system in 1968 and 1970.

Most of the scenes which were actually cut from Spartacus were not due to censorship but to negative reaction at violence from the audiences during previews. It also allowed the film to run shorter, and possibly get one more showing in a single day. The exception was the bathing scene between Tony Curtis and Lawrence Olivier, the notorious "oysters and snails" scene. There was zero nudity there but the conversation was full of double-meanings that clearly established that Crassus was gay and regarded homosexuality as a preference, and it was too much for the censorship then. Hence the deletion due to "suggestive dialog", and it was ultimately restored in 1991.

But, given the state of mind in 1960, there was no way that the MPAA would have approved footage of the lead actress in the nude and even less that the producers would have submitted a cut featuring some actual nude footage. It wouldn't have passed. They could still push the envelope in less obvious ways, like teasing nudity (the footage from the actual bathing scene with Simmons that suggests that she is skinny-dipping) or alluding to one major character's homosexuality. And they won one battle but lost another. These were the actual front lines at the time.

In 1960, however, Playboy was starting to gain popularity and had a circulation of 1 million copies. So, if you wanted to get promo for free (something that Spartacus producer Kirk Douglas had understood early on), a good method was to allow a Playboy photographer on set for a few minutes after your "teasing nudity" scene was shot, of course if the actress was fine with showing her tits on a few tasteful pictures. There was never any filmed footage that showed her from that angle, above the water, it was some staged event that would get the pictures "leaking" into Playboy, causing the readers to be much more interested in Spartacus.
A few shots from the shooting may have been published in the December 1960 issue, but I don't have access to the archive. In any case, it was not an isolated case, there are a few other films from the sixties that have nude BTS material even if there's no nudity in the finished project, because it was all a deal with Playboy.

 

I'm not sure where the appropriate place to post this. I wanted to know if the landing strip on this brightened picture of Karen Gillian is real.

 

What they've brightened is there in the original image. Whether that's actually a landing strip or not, who knows.

 

Millie Bobby Brown. Found it on a discord server. Can't tell if it's real. Haven't seen it anywhere else though.

 

Fake.
Backwards image search only leads to a few hits, all of them from questionable reddit and twitter accounts from late last year. The original pic has probably been cropped and colors of clothes and background changed to make it harder to find.

 

random single pic of 'Taylor Swift' - is it real?



I can't find any info

 

That's not Taylor Swift. That is Gal Gadot. And i do believe the pic is real.

 

wow, I would have bet the house that was Taylor

Thanks

 

When I look at that photo I see Sandra Bullock lol

 

This one's gonna be a bit hard to verify. Found it on insta. That fan account is the only one i've seen that posted this image. Haven't found anything on it. Looks...legit to me: moles and hands seem to be a match so who knows? Maybe an outtake?

 

If it's an outtake there must be more of her in that dress, or at the very least with the same hairstyle, makup and nails.

EDIT: it's from this shoot apparently: https://forum.phun.org/threads/gal-gadot-glamour-magazine-uk-decembre-2017.2121755/

 

Just to add one thing to your well made post; there was one other factor that led to the demise of the Hayes code. When the code was first introduced, the production companies all owned the theaters that the movies were played in. When independent theaters became a thing (think grindhouse/trench coats), production companies didn't really have to adhere to the code. Any risk of running afoul of Johnny Law would fall on theater owners. The theater owners were willing to assume the risk because indie films were cheaper to run, hence more profit, and people were ready to start lining up for the TnA.
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