'Contempt'

The only thing more beautiful than Jean-Luc Godard's filmmaking is the wonderful and stunning Brigitte Bardot.

I tried, in my mind, to correlate the great Bardot to someone in the modern day. A sex symbol, with some acting ability, but mostly known for what she looked like and what she was wearing.

However, the sex symbolism isn't just due to the fact that she's shapely, proportioned and beautiful. She's one of the top five all-time sex symbols. She oozed the stuff. She makes guys go crazy; crazier than what most other females ever get.

I thought of Scarlett Johansson. Still, I don't think she appropriately captures everything that Bardot means nor do I think she necessarily grabs you by the dick from the screen quite like the golden-haired goddess of Godard's vision.

"Contempt" also presents another interesting, post-modern look at art. In the film, Jack Palance is an American producer/playboy, who has hired the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang to direct a film based on Homer's "The Odyssey." Palance's character dislikes the initial direction of Lang so he hires Paul, a screenwriter and playwright, to work on the script.

Funnily, Lang plays himself in the film. So a real director plays himself in a film about fake filmmakers. Did Lang of the film know about Godard? Was the Godard ever considered by Palance's producer character to hire Godard for the film? Was Brigitte Bardot considered to play Penelope? Or Jack Palance to play Ulysses?

It's a interesting discussion first introduced to me by pop culturist Chuck Klosterman in "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs." In it, he enquires whether Harrison Ford's character in "What Lies Beneath" own a copy of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," obviously a Ford film where he portrays Indiana Jones. Had Ford's character in "What Lies Beneath" seen "Star Wars" or "Blade Runner?"

A very different scenario for sure, but it brings up the question of art and what art knows. Or doesn't.

Still, Bardot is smoking hot.