Film veteran James Ivory won his first Oscar this year for adapting Call Me By Your Name — but that doesn’t mean he thinks the final version was exactly right!
One key way in which the film falls short, in Ivory’s view? No dick!
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Ivory tells the Guardian his script specifically referred to Elio and Oliver’s bodies being shown — but nudity clauses in Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet‘s contracts prevented it!
Director Luca Guadagnino has said shying away from the D was an artistic decision — a claim on which Ivory is literally calling B.S., saying:
“When Luca says he never thought of putting nudity in, that is totally untrue. He sat in this very room where I am sitting now, talking about how he would do it, so when he says that it was a conscious aesthetic decision not to – well, that’s just bullshit.”
Ha! Leave it to the man who made Howards End to spill tea that strong!
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Ivory, who directed a few dozen films himself, thinks the lack of nudity is always a bit jarring in sex scenes:
“When people are wandering around before or after making love, and they’re decorously covered with sheets, it’s always seemed phoney to me. I never liked doing that. And I don’t do it, as you know.”
He then refers to his 1987 film Maurice, a gay love story adapted from the E.M Forster book and costarring a babyfaced Hugh Grant, and its key love scene:
“The two guys have had sex and they get up and you certainly see everything there is to be seen. To me, that’s a more natural way of doing things than to hide them, or to do what Luca did, which is to pan the camera out of the window toward some trees. Well. [derisive snort]”
We hope Luca and the boys give Ivory his heart’s desire (and all of ours, really!) in the much-hyped sequel.
[Image via Faye Sadou/Media Punch/Sony Pictures Classics.]
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