o/~ "I see by your cup size that you are a hussy..." o/~

[serinde]

Disney is going back to digitally reduce Lindsay Lohan's boobage in the new Herbie the Love Bug movie, because test audiences thought she was "too sensual".

Make a note, there. They didn't say, ooh, maybe we should dress the 18-year-old a little more modestly for the family movie. THEY REDUCED HER BOOBS. (By up to two cup sizes in some scenes.) Because big titties mean that you are of course nothing more than a walking penis cozy.

(Money quote from the article: "Breasts are fine in PG films providing they are discreet and no larger than a C-cup.")

I'm offended that Hollywood thinks this is a reasonable response. I'm disgusted at the mindset that prompted it. And I'm appalled at the lack of outcry about it.

Comments

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

First, it's painfully obvious on the website (http://www.herbiemovie.com/) that they've edited her chest out. This is just stupid as hell.

What would really be stupid?

If they digitally edited Justin Long, Breckin Meyer, Matt Dillon, and Michael Keaton's crotches to make them larger (since, after all, women with large breasteses would be "hussies", but guys with big pingas would be "manly").

Anywho--I am looking forward to the movie? Why, you ask (other than the fact I'm a Herbie fan from years on back..)?

Because it's NOT AN FSCK'N REMAKE!

It's a continuation--not a remake/rewrite/rewhatever like Hollywood's been doing forever and a day.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Outside of the issue at hand, I'm generally indifferent to the movie, but I do concur that at least it's not a remake.

Probably easier to stuff a crotch than to digitally frob it, though.

One of my friends mentions that a friend of her son's was employed to airbrush out stretch marks on Selma Hayek's boobs (in what film, deponent knoweth not). He reported high job satisfaction.

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

Probably would have been easier to strap her boobs down with a sportsbra too... :-/

As for Salma Hayek--I guess Hollyweird didn't want men to think she had kids or something? Weird.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Well, 1) why do with boring old matter what you can do with New! Shiny! Computers!!!!11!!!?  and 2) you have to stuff the crotches (or strap down the bosoms, or other permutations) beforehand, which requires thinking ahead, while the editing can be done whenever in reaction to complaints from people who were asleep at the switch for the costume design and the shooting and so on.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

It's also painfully that they "do not support" my web browser (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/). (Okay, so, I've done my share of talking trash on it, but that's usually when I'm experimenting with scripting and it repeatably segfaults.) Fortunately, I have others, and... oh my but that site is hideous and the Flash is beating the hell out of the CPU. And... enh; I was hoping for more badly edited chests than that. Perhaps they even have them, but the evil must go away now.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Disney's whole moral/ethical compass is degaussed. From the trailers, I gathered that the moral of the new Herbie movie is, "If life is hard, cheat, cheat, and cheat some more. Because pretty girls deserve to win, even if that means using a magic car and not any talent of their own."

Granted, that seems to have largely been the moral of every Herbie movie, to some extent. But they play up the whole "But I wanna be a race car driver, I'm good enough!" angle in the trailer...and then show that she's obviously NOT good enough, if she needs Herbie-power to compete.

[naudia.livejournal.com]

So she can have delusions of adequacy, but not real breasts, because that's to much for the public to deal with. Is that basically the gist?

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, Syringa, they can't get yours yet.

Meanwhile, I almost suspect that marketing departments hold brainstorming sessions to come up with something utterly inexplicable and controversial they can do to get mindshare and sell tickets. If people don't notice your movie they don't go and see it. If they start this process early enough, casting someone like Tom Cruise or Sean Penn may suffice; the actor will take his upper brain out of gear long enough to pull a manouver that attracts media. If they're in post-production and not the talk of the town yet, though, then it's time to go see if ILM and friends can invent something to pull out of the Big Bag of Dumb Tricks for them.