Straw Dogs is an interesting example, it was made in 1971 only a couple of years after the industry had abandoned the production code regarding sexual content. So it would truly have been shocking to audiences which was probably the point.Vile8r wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2026 11:27 pm The rape scenes in the movie Straw Dogs (both the 1971 original with Susan George, and the 2011 remake starring Kate Bosworth) were good ones too.
In some ways it's a conservative movie, Susan George's character is flirtatious, dresses and acts inappropriately around random men and behaves in what could best be described as a 'bratty' way with her husband. When she's raped, it's not so much that she enjoys it as she just lets it happen without much a struggle, but also without much dignity. She also seems to shrug the whole thing off afterwards even though it's implied her second rapist sodomised her.
In the 2011 film, the female lead is less ditzy I suppose you could say she has more agency. She fights her first rapist at least initially, and the camera moves away when the second man sodomises her. It also gives her flashbacks afterwards, which ticks the box showing that the rape has affected her.
Both films keep the scene where the female character deliberately walk topless past their future rapists, strongly suggesting that it was a bad idea. In 2011 the idea that a woman could provoke a rapist was already well on the way to becoming taboo.
The novel the film is based on 'the siege of trenchards farm' didn't even have the rape scene. Peckinpah put it in the 1971 film and the 2011 film felt it was a key plot point.
I reccomend AZNUDE if anyone wants to compare the two scenes.
It's worth noting the rape scene wasn't in the original book
I'd like to be mistaken, but I think I saw the same ravishments when I was young.