Contempt

Contempt was kind of a difficult movie, but I thought it was really intriguing. What happened behind the camera was also interesting. As said in class, Jean-Luc Godard directed the movie and it was his first big budget film. Contempt is also considered one of Godard's best films; however, he actually hated filming it. I thought it was interesting how certain scenes were added to make the film more popular, especially in America. Godard did not want Brigitte Bardot to have any scenes with nudity in them, but the producer insisted on it to please the masses. He did it in a way that wasn't completely revealing and it seemed to me that it was in such a way that criticized the very thing he was showing in his film. Bardot was sitting a bed nude, talking about mundane things such as her feet and chins; dialogue that is not typically featured with a scene such as that.