I Guess This Is What CGI Is For (UPDATED)

(Spoiler alert for Game of Thrones season 5 and books 4-5.) The Game of Thrones producers are having trouble with a few permits they need to shoot the upcoming season. It turns out you can’t just film a woman parading naked through the streets of Dubrovnik—you need a permit to do that.

Fans of George R.R.Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books know that after Joffrey’s death and Tyrion’s escape, the increasingly unhinged Cersei runs afoul of the High Septon, the head of the Faith of the Seven in King’s Landing. It gets to a point where Cersei is imprisoned and, as punishment, is forced to make the ultimate walk of shame from “the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep” while completely naked, in front of the entire city. It’s humiliating to the extreme, but also a vastly important scene in Cersei’s story.

But there’s a problem. GoT films its exterior King’s Landing shots in Croatia, where they needed to apply for a permit to allow actress Lena Headey to be filmed naked outside. But according to TMZ, the local Church of St. Nicholas very much disapproves of this, and has pressured the local film commission into denying the show the necessary permit.

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Has It Occurred to the Pearl-Clutchers that Miley Cyrus Might Be Deliberately Screwing With Them?

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An article on some website takes Billy Ray Cyrus to task for not condemning his daughter’s blatant acting-like-a-sexually-independent-young-adult in her latest video. (The article’s subtitle states “BILLY RAY CYRUS ENABLES MILEY BY APPROVING HIS DAUGHTER’S NUDE VIDEO FOR ‘WRECKING BALL.'”) When asked about her mostly-nude performance in the “Wrecking Ball video” (because a father’s opinion is the most relevant thing regarding anything an adult woman does), Billy Ray reportedly said:

“I’m a song man. A musician singer songwriter who loves all styles of music. But again…I come from the old school where it starts with an artist and a song …colliding if you will … in a moment where the song, the singer, the producer, the band and the listener become one. It wouldn’t have mattered if Miley would have worn jeans and a flannel shirt, a tux or a nun’s habit,” and that “her performance vocally on the tune reflects her root and sheer God-given talent.”

The author’s response to this supportive father, who is clearly proud of his daughter’s musical chops?

Seriously Billy Ray! It would have totally mattered! She might actually be taken seriously instead of the butt of every joke.

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Happy Friday the 13th

Every year, around this time (i.e. approaching Halloween), I have to confront the contradictory facts that I do not like slasher films on a very fundamental level, yet I cannot seem to turn away from them when I come across them on TV. (Whether or not I deliberately seek them out on some subconscious level will have to be a question for my biographers.) Since SyFy is apparently running a Friday the 13th marathon today, I suppose the die is cast. In honor (or shame) of this film franchise, here are some (mostly-non-gory) GIFs culled from Google. Spoiler/NSFW alert, I guess.

The original slasher, Pamela Voorhees:

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An early appearance of George McFly:

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Game of Thrones, for Those Who Don’t Like the Violence and Drama and Stuff

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Game of Thrones offers something for a wide range of tastes, from intricate and interconnect plots, palace intrigue, and uncomfortable romance; to swordfights and zombie battles; to, let’s face it, boobs.

Someone went an edited together all of the nude scenes from the first two seasons (NSFW and with spoilers, of course). It does a good job of demonstrating that not all on-screen nudity is good nudity. Daenerys’ early scenes with Khal Drogo come to mind. Also, it’s almost entirely female nudity, and while that might be more my thing, it’s pretty darn unfair. As I recall, towards the end of season 1 there was a brief scene in Winterfell’s godswood with Osha admiring Hodor’s, um, hodor, and I think maybe some almost full-frontal of Theon Greyjoy, but considering that Roz almost never wore clothes in any of her scenes, it ends up pretty lopsided. There’s a pun in there somewhere.

This is also reflected in George R.R. Martin’s writing, which delves into the creepy-sexy quite a bit. The guy talks a lot about nipples.

I’m not sure if the video will embed in WordPress, so if you can’t see it below, click here.

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