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	<title>Screen Machine &#187; Oh lovely boy: Visual pleasure in &#8220;Twilight: New Moon&#8221;</title>
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		<title>Oh lovely boy: Visual pleasure in &#8220;Twilight: New Moon&#8221;</title>
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Andrew Denton: &#8216;The Boy&#8217;. What&#8217;s it about?
Germaine Greer: The Boy is the male person who is no longer a child, but not yet a man.
AD: Mm-hm. And what… You admire this form very greatly. What is it that you admire?
GG: Well, no, the Boy has a kind of beauty which is not accessible to females or to younger or older men. There is a moment in a boy&#8217;s life when he is transcendentally beautiful.
The most striking thing about Twilight: New Moon is its shockingly aggressive sexualisation of Taylor Lautner&#8217;s body. The filmmakers contrive to place Lautner (playing teen werewolf Jacob) in all sorts of Mills and Boon type situations that pay tribute to his taut, sculpted, adolescent body. Here, he is peeling his shirt off to wipe blood from the brow of Bella after she falls from her motorbike. There, he is caught topless in the rain with water dripping off his chiselled pectorals as he warns Bella to stay away from him. Here again, he is topless and crouched over Bella as he resuscitates her on the beach with waves crashing at their heels. The near-naked male form has of course been in plenty of previous mainstream films, but in New Moon the camera&#8217;s gaze is exclusively one of sexual desire, that element neither disavowed by the spectre of death as in 300 nor by humour as in Bruno. I suppose this is the reason that Lautner&#8217;s torso is such a shocking spectacle, as well as the fact that&#8230;]]></description>
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