Certain actions (some of them completely absurd and unfounded in anything resembling real human behavior) have become so overused in movies and television that they've actually transcended being cliches to become parodies of cliches, which is just all sorts of weird. Even if a cease and desist can't be issued against these incidents, the least we can do is complain about them. Here is an example of the kind of foolishness we never want to see on the big and/or small screen ever again.
This is some enraging idiocy, and not because you always want to see the bare breasts of the actress in question. No, it's enraging because it's COMPLETE AND UTTER BOLLOCKS. Who the hell keeps their bra on during sex, really, unless it's some high school girl freaking the hell out because it's her first time? Sure, it can be "sexy" sometimes, being half-clothed while you're going at it in the heat of the moment and whatnot, but whenever there's a sex scene in a movie and the girl keeps her top on, you know it's because a) she has something in her contract that makes it so, or b) the movie has to keep its PG-13 rating, or c) the director is a putz, or more likely d) all of the damn above.
Look at this nonsense from Michael Bay's The Island. Apparently Scarlett Johansson wanted to be topless for this scene with Ewan McGregor, because, you know, that's what you would do if you were in bed with Ewan McGregor, but Michael Bay stopped her and insisted she keep her bra on. Michael Bay! You know he's had his share of 19-year-old interns from Nebraska in his trailer in-between takes, and you know they don't keep their bras on. And Michael, you can have her be topless, as there are ways to shoot around the woman's nipples, or whatever you're trying to avoid showing. Woody Allen does it with Scarlett all the time. Ridiculous. Dear God, just look at her, Michael. Angry breasts demand freedom from black bra oppression!
Anyway, Mr. Bay isn't exactly known for his sense of realism, so that might have a lot to do with Ewan McGregor not ripping off Scarlett Johansson's intimate apparel in a frenzy of desire and indulging in that luscious rack.
And here's Winona Ryder, keeping her bra on while having sex with a puppet. Nonsense. But then again, it's Winona Ryder, and we've come to expect this from her. The keeping-her-bra-on thing, not the puppet thing.
