I love a good bit of tergiversation.
Controversial, but it came up in a conversation I had not so long ago:
Monica Bellucci's back in Irréversible.
Grace Kelly's back in general.
Mickey Rourke's back in The Wrestler.
Bourne films (posters and lots of chasing after him, anyway).
Many computer games.
Roong and Min by the river in Blissfully Yours.
A societal predilection for bottoms might also be construed into this
type of question...?
Whether there's 'more aesthetic beauty', it's hard to tell, surely?
Both in terms of whether this is 'beautiful' for males or females or
both (given the 'leering-man' nature of the first two examples given),
but also if we don't get to see from the front, then how do we know
whether it's more beautiful or not? And why only front and back as
the options? Above, below, side.
On the subject of leering men and backs, I've not seen it, but I
remember James Toback waxing lyrical about Neve Campbell's back in an
interview about her performance in When Will I Be Loved. During a
masturbation scene. He enjoyed it. A lot.
> Subject: shot of/from the back
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I am working on the aesthetic beauty of the back. Sometimes there is
> more aesthetic beauty in showing the back rather than the front as in
> one scene towards the end of We Were Soldiers in which Mel Gibson sobs
> on seeing the dead bodies of both friends' and foes' being gathered at
> the end of the war. Please let me know if anyone could help me find any
> movies with such shots of/from the back when if they were taken from the
> front it would not have been as aesthetically striking.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Thoithoi O'Cottage
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