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You are probably right. It is a very thin line, though. The decision to show it on screen is a big decision. The decision to show ANYTHING on screen is a big decision - it shows what the filmmaker believes is important. The question becomes WHY it’s important. Why should we see these people having sex instead of just referring to it? Why should we actually show “taboo” nudity instead of have them under the blanket? An audience will come to their own conclusions about the answers to those questions. If they feel like the answer is for the sake of titillation, they may enjoy it, they may be offended, they may not care, but the artistic chops of the film take a hit.
Indeed. But even if some people conclude that was the purpose, others might not agree as long as there are other legitimate purposes.
 
Indeed. But even if some people conclude that was the purpose, others might not agree as long as there are other legitimate purposes.
Of course! The artistic legacy of the first mainstream film to include a full scene of naked female crucifixion in unflinching detail will be controversial. No question. The point I’m making is less about the legacy and more about getting the thing made. You have to convince the studio and investors that you will be able to convince the audience that you’re not making porn. Once it’s made, who cares what people think? :)
 
Of course! The artistic legacy of the first mainstream film to include a full scene of naked female crucifixion in unflinching detail will be controversial. No question. The point I’m making is less about the legacy and more about getting the thing made. You have to convince the studio and investors that you will be able to convince the audience that you’re not making porn. Once it’s made, who cares what people think? :)
'Snuff-movie' (2005)
'Dead but dreaming' (2013)
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The answer to the subject matter is simple, use the life and martyrdom of St Julia, she was almost certainly stripped naked and crucified suffering her execution with complete humility bearing witness to her faith.
One company has come close to this with a single actress imitation of Christ scenario, but they never achieve complete nudity and never start her story early enough, in my view the lead up arrest and sentence et cetera is more dramatic and emotive than the actual final crucifixion.
 
Makins, I like the way you think! There have been a number of films that depict women being whipped, tortured on the rack, burned with hot irons, etc. But only a few have crucifixions. I haven't seen "Snuff Movie." Is it worth a look?

With a small budget, some good actors and a proper set you could make a film along the lines you laid out, but the more people and scenes, the more complicated it gets. Since there are some fairly gruesome exploitation films, there must be a market for this type of thing. The suffering could be limited in screen time for the general audience cut, but there could be a "director's cut" with a lot more of the torture and crucifixion scenes for dedicated perverts like us.
 
I've had a set up for this since before I joined cruxforums (because I've been a crux fan since I was very, very young).
After watching the FABULOUS show Spartacus, I wished to do a series about Boudica in the same format, but with a little extra. (Spartcus showed 3 beautiful women be crucified, but none of them were naked or even topless)

It would still be a full on historical drama, with good acting and big battle scenes, but it would also include
>the torture and rape of Boudica and her daughters that started the whole rebellion, in graphic detail.
>displays of Boudica's many crimes against Roman civilians and Britons who were working with them, including her beloved way of killing Briton women who married Roman men - impaling
>long crucifixion scene at the end, with many men and women of her army nailed to crosses and displayed in both close ups and wide (group) shots. Since the fate of her daughters are unknown, I will have one die in battle and one (the more "innocent"one, I want to write them as two sides of Boudica's nature, the good and the evil) be crucified in the most graphic and agonizing way an NC-17 show can possibly be, so the audience can feel the true results of the rebellion.


That or I do a porn series based on Marcus' "cards" of modern women volunteering to be crucified in an Arab country. :D
 
I want to add to this again. There are two films that I have the deep interest in making.


The first being FINALLY a big budget fantasy-esque version of The Pilgrim's Progress, complete with epic sequences of fighting (whenever Christian does so in the book). Additionally, the character Faithful will be gender swapped to be a woman. While the character is not crucified, she does have a gruesomely erotic death.
"They scourged her (using the female pronoun for this quote), they buffeted her, they stoned her and slashed her with knives, they pierced her with swords, finally they tied her to a stake and burned her to ashes. Thus Faithful came to an end"


The next one would be the overdue remake of the film Quo Vadis. (not to disparage the rather good Polish remake, which does include topless women on crosses), but I would want to combine the sheer scale of the 50s religious epics, with the stylized sex and violence of the TV show Spartacus.
In particular I would want to visually illustrate the masterpiece from the Polish painter Jan Styka "The martyrdom of Christians in Nero’ circus”. (seen here). I would do a 1917-style long take that sweeps through the arena at a decently slow pace, lingering on the nailing and raising of any characters that had had a role previously in the film, before pulling out to a wide shot that, at the right second, literally recreates this image.
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After that, I would have one of the crucified girls begin to sing (think a Celtic Woman single voice style hymm). The audio of her single voice will raise so that the sounds of hammering and wailing slowly disappear. She makes it through the first verse before stopping and gasping for air, at which the rest of the martyrs raise thier voices in song, with sweeping areal shots and cuts to a stunned & silent (and in a few cases, weeping) crowd, and a cowering Nero.
 
The next one would be the overdue remake of the film Quo Vadis. (not to disparage the rather good Polish remake, which does include topless women on crosses), but I would want to combine the sheer scale of the 50s religious epics, with the stylized sex and violence of the TV show Spartacus.
In particular I would want to visually illustrate the masterpiece from the Polish painter Jan Styka "The martyrdom of Christians in Nero’ circus”. (seen here). I would do a 1917-style long take that sweeps through the arena at a decently slow pace, lingering on the nailing and raising of any characters that had had a role previously in the film, before pulling out to a wide shot that, at the right second, literally recreates this image.
You will find plenty of candidates for extras on this Forum!:rolleyes:
 
I like @Baron Von Sade ’s ideas a lot.. I would also like to see an uncut X-rated movie of @Eulalia ’s “Rome’s Revenge”
 
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