DEBATE Alexandra Daddario - Lost Girls and Love Hotels discussion

A few years ago, I've read a large amount of full frontal and tasteful sex scenes for the post production of Lost Girls and Love Hotels.
Supposedly, Alexandra Daddario was to sexually "top" her True Detective nude scenes by comparison in this movie.

A tremendous disappointment.

This film was dialed down from it's glorious nude scenes I've read about.
The potential nude and sex scenes were rushed and cut-out, it was followed with terrible lighting and camera angles.
It reminded me of Scarlett Johnson's "Under the Skin" movie, awful lighting and camera angles that didn't do the actress justice, the nudes were a fail to say the least.
Anyway, they should have saved this film for an actress that was hungrier and more bold, maybe it needed a better Director that had balls.
I hope there's an Uncut or NC-17 edition that gets released later down the road. The sex elements were weak for a film that focuses on a white lady that gets lost' exploring her sexual side in a asian country.

 

Where did you ever read that it had a "large" amount of full frontal ? It never did. It was always over-exaggerated because the description was so subtle. And here you are doing the same, over-exaggerating what you read.

 

For someone that kept up with the production updates of the film's exotic scenes, I stand by what I said.
Over-exaggerated? Pleasssse.

 

No, that member is correct. We all read the same thing years ago by multiple credible sources. If you don't believe it, feel free to do some quick research. It was posted numerous places.

 

Well in fairness to Under The Skin the nudity wasn't there to get people off and had a great deal of context for the scenes in question, the big full frontal scene isn't even a sexual scene and is played as an important character moment.

 

No he's not.
This is the original description of the scenes
https://www.recapped.com/2019-rumors/

It seems to me that what's been posted here is exactly what was described and people blew it way out of proportion

 

it can "seem" to you to be whatever you'd like

the fact is, on various legitimate sites (not this one) with legitimate movie reporters and insider sources, when the movie was first shot they all stated there were several frontal nudity parts... as time went on and the movie failed to get picked up and they edited it out to make it more acceptable for mainstream audiences, yes that stuff had been removed

with that said, it still appeared to be that there would at least be more than what there wound up being

 

Utter nonsense. Recapped is the only "legitimate" site that was posting reliable info on this film, anything else was clickbait or 4chan fantasies.

 

Rubbish. Years back, there was an inside source from the film crew that dropped crumbs on IG's DM that they were shooting insane nude scenes of DD from the story script and fan's were going to be satisfied.
Recapped was reliable once upon a time. 4chan and clickbait?
Nobody goes there for advice or updates unless for trolling.
I didn't realize there were Male feminist on this forum. Lol

 

Inside source on IG - is that the millennial version of "my dad works for Nintendo"?

 

You really posted that as a way to say you had info?
lol

 

lol
A lot on here believe things they hope to be true. Look at how many plastic surgery deny-ers there are.
As if Hollywood females are not known for facial and breast surgery

 

Too many people in this thread who never saw the original posts out there about what was originally in the movie yet feel they have a right to tell us (those who did and had been following this for years) that we're nuts or dumb for believing them. It's amazing the world we live in where hiding behind a computer screen gives you power you don't have in real life.

In the meantime, 1 of the posts somewhere on those unreliable internet pages had a photo of her on set full nude with blurry marks over all the good parts. Someone took it and leaked it when they know they shouldn't have as proof. It quickly disappeared from the web after, i assume, that Person got in big trouble.

 

Anyway, hindsight is always 20/20.

It's really easy and takes zero courage whatsoever to call people out or lay into them AFTER the fact when you've seen what something contained.

What I don't get is that if you're a fan of Alex's and want to see her nude, why aren't you as angry about this movie as we are? Why are you happily trying to piss on us for simply hoping it contained more than it did?

And if you aren't a fan of hers and don't care to see her nude, WTF are you doing here in the first place?

 

I thought 'My dad works for Nintendo' WAS the millennial version of 'My dad works for Nintendo'?

Nothing ever disappears from the internet. You're talking utter rubbish.

Face it. What's there is all that was ever there and people overhyped it

 

I think they shot more explicit stuff, Daddario had second thoughts and refused to promote the movie until the cuts were made. The obvious tell is how long it took to get accepted by a single festival before landing a prestige spot at TIFF. So you're telling me a movie took more than a full year of post production edit to get accepted into a festival and then managed to get accepted to one of the five most important festivals in the world? Smells like someone's agent was pushing for the director to make acceptable cuts behind the scenes.

If the movie wasn't getting accepted to festivals because it was simply bad, it would have had to settle for a second tier fest. So I think there was definitely a power play pulled by Daddario to get the nudity cut down to an acceptable compromise.

 

1) You're talking about a woman who we've seen every inch of already. You really think that she would balk at promoting a film with gratuitous amounts of nudity, especially if it was for the art?
2) Slots at festivals are extremely competitive. This is an indie film. Some films take YEARS before they get a slot even at a second tier festival. That it took two years to get in at TIFF is no real indication of anything
3) The fact that the recapped description of the scenes from a year ago matches up to what we're seeing now indicates to me that very little, if anything, was changed in the editing process.

I'd be willing to change my opinion if we see a script, or the deleted scenes, or the director comes out and says he was forced to cut it, like with Crossing Over. You know, some actual evidence. But until then, I'm very strongly inclined to believe that what's there is there and people just heard 'Daddario nudity' and let their imaginations run wild.

 

The Recapped description of the scenes weren't from a year ago, they were from early this year, AFTER the movie got rejected by every festival in 2019. Beyond that, you're completely ignoring the purpose of film festivals: to serve as marketplaces where films get shopped for distribution. Plenty of movies that don't get into festivals still get shopped at their marketplaces and the word was this movie couldn't even find a distributor willing to touch it.

I'm skeptical it was just so bad that nobody wanted to buy it, especially given the track record other middling movies Daddario's been in getting sold to someone.

 

Nope, Daddario had nothing to do with it. She has zero issue showing her body. She loves talking about her nudity, still mentions True Detective all these years later. She markets her body. It is zero coincidence that in the weeks leading up to this release she had 2-3 YouTube videos that showed a lot of cleavage. She knew what she was doing.

The movie itself had major issues getting into festivals. When it was first edited with all the nudity it was bordering on NC-17 rating. That lead to the first round of nude scene cuts.

It still wasn't getting any major studio backing after that. They then changed its name at least once. Nothing was changing. They felt they needed to make it more mainstream and get rid of almost all the nudity and sexual content and this is what we are left with.

Personally I would have thought at least one major studio head would say "Daddario nude, that will sell" but none did. I also wonder how much the #metoo movement and the women's equality push in Hollywood, which began after this was shot, played a role in major studios not wanting to pay to back a movie that's only redeeming quality would have been a nude actress.