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Friday, March 12, 2010

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Model's Lawsuit Pretty Much Describes The Purpose Of Modeling

The horrorDid you see the atrocious Vince Vaughn movie Couple's Retreat? You might have. It did pretty well at the box office for some inexplicable reason. In any event, if you didn't take some kind of PTSD memory-blocking drug to obliterate the horror of having endured that film, you may recall a scene in which Jon Favreau's character jacks it to a picture of a pretty lady on a brochure. Turns out said lady is actually a real person, and she's none too pleased about the whole thing. In fact, she's suing!

The New York Post-which helpfully identifies the picture as a "Universal film," lest you be concerned that it was released under the imprimatur of Fox-reports that "Irina Krupnik 'only learned of defendants' lascivious use of her photo in the film' after it was released in theaters — and was horrified to discover it was being used as a 'masturbatory prop' for a character played by Jon Favreau, the makeup artist says in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court."

It gets even better! The Times notes that:

Universal Pictures bought the photo from a stock agency, JupiterImages, for $500, according to the lawsuit. The filmmakers doctored the photo for the movie by "inserting it into a fictitious resort brochure," according to the complaint. They further altered the context, the lawsuit continued, by using the photo "as a prop for an overweight, unhappily married male character to masturbate while his wife is in the washroom."

In that scene, the lawsuit said, Mr. Favreau's character waits for his wife to leave the hotel room "before lifting his sleeveless T-shirt over his prominent belly. He then liberally lubricates himself while leering at the image of the youthful Ms. Krupnik on a beach, a scenario apparently intended to be humorous."

The thought of an older man pleasuring himself at the sight of a younger woman is what made the scene especially troubling, according to the lawsuit.

"In fact, it is the very juxtaposition of the wholesome image of a healthy 21-year-old woman on a beach, with Mr. Favreau's much older, desiccated and overweight character creeping around his darkened hotel room to pleasure himself, that is supposed to provide humor," the lawsuit read. "This juxtaposition, into a scene that would be a crime if Mr. Favreau attempted it on a New York City subway, is not something that Ms. Krupnik could have anticipated or should be subjected to."

Yes, it's true! Every scantily-clad model who is photographed tugging suggestively at her bikini bottom only imagines her picture being used in the most wholesome of manners, perhaps being taped on the chalkboard of a Kindergarten to illustrate the concept of summer, or placed in the locker room of a women's fitness center to provide inspiration. The idea that a swimsuit picture might be used as a prop for a spank session-and by a fat, elderly person at that-is almost too horrible to contemplate. No wonder this woman is seeking legal redress; can you imagine the anguish she's gone through? You cannot! Unless you've seen Couple's Retreat, which was awful.

27 Comments / Post A Comment

KarenUhOh
KarenUhOh (#19)

Which of her lawyers get to tell her this isn't going to be a class action?

KarenUhOh
KarenUhOh (#19)

Think of the trial. The jury selection process. Think of the "does the glove fit?" moment.

NotAndersonCooper

Can't this be settled over beer as a masturbatory moment?

mimithedog
mimithedog (#1,165)

She's another gold-digging brow shaper.

johnpseudonym
johnpseudonym (#1,452)

If Jon Favreau is considered an "elderly person" I am so fucked.

johnpseudonym
johnpseudonym (#1,452)

P.S. By a certain age, most things in the world become masturbatory props for men.

WindowSeat
WindowSeat (#180)

And I was feeling so smug because I had a few years left until I was eligible for an AARP membership.

NicFit
NicFit (#616)

Oh my, they repurposed a stock photo for another use?!? One that may not entirely pass the muster of the original people involved?

This lawsuit is such pure, uttter bullshit.

C_Webb
C_Webb (#855)

Since when is "would be a crime if attempted on a subway" the criteria for what's permissible in movies?

La Cieca
La Cieca (#1,110)

"Contains graphic violence, mature themes, and depictions of placing bags on an empty seat when doing so would interfere with transit operations."

HeyThatsMyBike

Apparently jerking off in your hotel room in a tropical locale is the exact equivalent of doing it on the subway? I'm going to sue somebody for shitting in the toilet in a hotel bathroom, because if they did that on the subway it'd be illegal.

HeyThatsMyBike

Excuse me, shitting in a toilet in a hotel bathroom IN A MOVIE.

Multiphasic
Multiphasic (#411)

More interested in you subpoenaing someone who craps on a subway.

C_Webb
C_Webb (#855)

A movie is no excuse for an improper touch.

HeyThatsMyBike

@Multiphasic - Citizen's Arrest!
There was once a guy taking a giant dump into an "I Heart NY" plastic bag on my old corner once during evening rush hour. Which wouldn't be that weird, but he had his buddy stand in front of him, I guess hoping that nobody would notice that he was taking a giant dump on one of the corners of a major intersection if he had a human shield. Also, I don't think either of them was homeless. But no, I did not subpoena him or sue him.

dntsqzthchrmn
dntsqzthchrmn (#2,893)

So, is this supposed to get her the money she's going to lose now that everyone in the world will think of Jon Favreau everytime they see her? or is it supposed to bring her to a level of notoriety where she gets to show up in John Waters movies and we can all say, oh her, and, by the way is screenwriter Jon Favreau related to Obama's speechwriter or what.

Echo Chamber Friday!

sox
sox (#652)

She'll probably take the money and get a boobjob, then use her notoriety to pose for playboy.

missdelite
missdelite (#625)

If she wants a date with Jon, she should just ask.

lost_in_transubstantiation

I'm sure Jon Favreau wouldn't mind if she masturbated to his picture, so really, that's fair isn't it?

La Cieca
La Cieca (#1,110)

Someone's lawyer doesn't know that "lubricated" and "dessicated" are antonyms. You can be both at the same time, even if you're Jon Favreau.

KarenUhOh
KarenUhOh (#19)

Exactly why he needed to lubricate! It's detail like this what separates me from the high-end Hollywood storyteller. Who can keep track of all that??

Ribs
Ribs (#2,690)

Nice finishing pirouette at the end. Maybe she'll settle out of court for a nice copy of the Couples Retreat Director's Cut DVD.

kneetoe
kneetoe (#1,881)

If he had been happily married she wouldn't have had a problem with this. She's unfailingly family friendly.

Pop Socket
Pop Socket (#187)

Wait until all the Karen Scott catalog models find out what naughty, naughty things they have been doing in my imagination.

Clarence Rosario

But there's a precedent here.

Ben Stiller is still paying off that lingerie model for the time he jacked it to the bra ad in There's Something About Mary

katiebakes
katiebakes (#32)

Glamour should be finding out whether there is a statute of limitations for this crime. They could prolly use the cash.

No_More_Mr_Nice_Guy

"Desiccated" AND "overweight" ? Lawyers should stop believing they can write worth a damn, it would spare them a lot of embarrassment.

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