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Jan 11, 2023 · This overlong scene, in some respects, is produced to justify the carnage leading to Straw Dogs final. When David finally becomes the alpha male, protecting his home and his wife from the brutality as five of the locals, including both rapists, attack their home.
Dec 4, 2021 · If the scene was controversial in 1971 it’s hugely problematic almost 50 years on due to the suggestion that Susan George’s character enjoys the first attack by a former boyfriend.
- Lee Trewhela
Dec 15, 2021 · He insisted that Susan George perform the rape scene in the nude, and to her credit, she refused. She even threatened to quit the film, a brave move for a young actress, especially at a time when full frontal nudity seemed to be expected of young female performers.
Jun 2, 2017 · Susan George and Sam Peckinpah during production of Straw Dogs (1971) The tension rises further after Amy re-encounters her assailants at a local church social. She and her husband later help a man, Niles (David Warner), who they run over by accident.
Dec 16, 2021 · When the director touched on his notorious 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, he brusquely stated that he was working with "a very bad book", that he rewrote the script extensively, that he was...
- Alexander Larman
Jan 18, 2022 · The scene, which earned the movie an X rating from British censors, also proved to be an offscreen ordeal for George. The shoot took three days, during which Peckinpah reportedly refused to utter a word to the then-20-year-old actress.
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Sep 1, 2015 · Such as in a scene around the half hour mark, Amy (George) comes into the house complaining the men were staring. Her husband David (Hoffman) chastises her and says she ought to wear or bra, or else “those types” will be staring; essentially, victim blaming.
