Is the Hulk Green All Over?

The Hulk; Photo - Universal

Honestly, Gothamist wasn't thinking of the Hulk in this way, but because the Chicago Sun-Times brought it up, now we can't help but think. And think. And think. Apparently there was some talk about creating a nude Hulk, but as special effects artist Dennis Muren says, "I guess there were some concerns over ratings, so we decided to put tattered clothes on him...there were some interesting conversations about how the Hulk would look nude. It even became complicated when we decided to put purple shorts on him. The question became 'How tight can the shorts be?'" Clearly, Dennis Muren has never been to Chelsea.

Producer Larry Franco added that a nude scene (with dark lighting, of course) was nixed, because "If we had a nude Hulk, we were worried that kids would try to stop the DVD and look. If we put nothing there, they would be like, 'There's nothing there.' If we put genitalia there, it opens whole other discussions."

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on June 13, 2003 8:58 AM

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The Riftalope

LOL! HULK MAN. NOT PUNY KEN DOLL.

If you go through the DVD extras you'll see the swinging package is in the work-ups and layered over with the pants. I do like it better that Hulk rescues Betsy from the dogs and then staggers on his pants as they slip off.

As a nudist I find it more silly because I know that kids only get scarred by what parents make wounds of. By making the nude form a mistery that adults get alarmed over is something children mimic, badly. It's worse because they don't know how alarmed to get. Kids told to "relax, it's just nudity" soon forget all about peoples' genitals whenthey see them.

v1

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

John Tantalo

Looks like we don't have to wait anymore to find out... see for yourself.

jack

give the adults a collectible and make it hulkish

Jacob Martin

I saw a pre-release version of the movie and there were scenes with an unclad Hulk. I guess the CGI was redone before the movie made it to theatres.

Evil_Inside

This is pretty funny - I was making fun of a buddy of mine 2 days ago because he was complaining that he somehow blows the crotch out on all his jeans and boxers. I went on to ask him if he was the Hulk, only instead of getting pissed, his formation occurs when he gets horny.

Too bad they made Hulk wear clothes in the movie - it would have been funny seeing him doing all that running and jumping with a big, green mule swinging all over the place.

Based on the trailer, I would imagine it would be big and probably look a big, green baby's arm holding a granny smith apple.

red

Jen, you are hilarious

j.

Perhaps ILM used Marky Mark's "Boogie Nights" penis as the model for The Hulk's?

Jen

Well, obviously the Hulk has a penis. It's just that they want a PG-13 rating. As the article says, there probably is Hulk penis at ILM.

Brian Henderson

Christian Finnegan had a funny bit at this week's "Eating It" about how if Bruce Banner lived in NYC, it wouldn't be just the occasional thing that'd piss him off and monsterfy him -- he'd ALWAYS be The Hulk. (Higher sales tax, broken apartment intercoms, slow people on subway steps... it's a non-stop pisser.) Christian thought the movie would instead have to be about this big green monster guy who, when only very occasionally provoked by happiness, would turn into a mild-mannered doctor.

Patrick

I love Franco's comment that the presence of hulky genitalia would open "whole other discussions." Like what? Whether it's true that buff guys have small dicks?

Creatively, it might be difficult to resolve if all of the Hulk mutates proportionally; for instance, it seems to me his head is small relative to the rest of his body. How, then, would his other head change? Also, does he get hard when enraged? That's critical--shrunken flaccidity definitely could dampen the Hulk's image of green virility.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole other discussions are opened.

abe

Why is this country so freaked out about something this insipidly dumb? This is on par with Ashcroft covering the breasts of the nude art. Of course the Hulk has a dick. Yes, you heard me Ma', penis penis penis. Big fuckin' penis! As for the double standard...if there is a She Hulk in the sequel, I bet they show her boobs without thinking twice what the kids will 'pause' to look at.