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The director's daughter...


...stark naked, being raped by a power-hungry king. Hot scene, but it must have taken a bizarre mix of nepotism and cold-heartedness for John Boorman to have directed it.

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She wasn't raped in real-life and even in the context of the movie she thought the guy was her husband and did not really UNWILLINGLY have sex with him. That's not quite the same thing as forcible rape. Seeing this movie as a teenager, I was just impressed he did it in full armor.

It is kinda weird to film your teen daughter in a nude sex scene, rape or not, but a few European directors have done it--Dario and Asia Argento in "Trauma", Serg and Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Charlotte Forever", and Andrew Birkin and his son and niece (Charlotte Gainsbourg again) in "The Cement Garden". These are just MOVIES though after all, and I don't pass judgment on their real-life relationships. I also don't think Americans puritanical weirdness towards sex and nudity is necessarily any healthier. . .

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