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Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in the Gold Bikini

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I thought I would make a thread on this topic.
Yes, she hasn't aged well. I agree with that. But c'mon everybody ages! When she was in her prime, she was beyond hot! She has a 'classic beauty' face as well and she didn't undergo plastic surgery to get it like most of today's actresses. The outfit itself is pretty iconic in pop culture as it is really unique with the metal brassiere, bare back and the skimpy piece of cloth covering the rear.
But what makes Leia really stand out is her personality. Despite her clothing, she literally choked Jabba to death with her chain. This was by far the most violent death in a star wars movie. Then she is shown on the sail barge fighting and aims the turret gun too. 
I was ten when I watched A New Hope and I was blown away by the first scene itself. Vader scared the hell outta me and I thought Leia had some guts being all smug in the first scene. Not to mention resisting torture.. And taking that blaster from Han, shooting the door, then at the stormtroopers and saying 'into the garbage shute flyboy'. Leia was always a toughie. 
She was mellow in Empire strikes back but after Han is frozen and is ready to let Lando die said a lot...not to mention fighting back at those stormtroopers.
Then came Return of the Jedi. When I saw Leia lying naked in the throne room, I was blown away . Later she chokes Jabba to death, escapes, and kicks ass on the sail barge. All the while being half naked. 
The scene, the outfit, and seeing the character we know like this makes her iconic. And IMO, that itself warrants a separate thread.
She was pretty curvy back in the day..Most models and actresses these days are skinny to the point of being anorexic. Just remember that what you see below ain't silicone :p .
And please vote in the poll and also answer these questions if you would like to.
What was your reaction when you first saw her in that?
Which is your favorite  pic below(post the pic if your favorite isn't listed). 
Which is your favorite scene of her in the outfit?
I was stumped when I first her in that.. The first time I ever saw a woman naked. Needless to say, she left quite an impression
My favorite pic is the first one. The body language, etc is awesome.
My favorite scene would be of her on the sail barge.
Please be decent when posting in this thread as I don't want it to be locked.
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Videos and pics :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_d6J3A9riQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMUvVvMLVBU
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When 55 years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?!?

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That first pic is photoshopped, sorry. She wasn't THAT curvy.

I think she looked nice in the bikini back then but to me it doesn't do much, really. Well, it's nice to look at the pics but it's not like WOW everytime I see her. I've watched these films since I was 8 and the characters are close to me, so it's kind of like getting aroused from your cousin or something, not literally of course but I don't fantasise over her, either. If I had seen the films as a teenager it might be different but as a kid it never really had an impact on me.

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I've never seen that beach photo before. It reminds me of the Rolling Stone cover from 1983, but that was shot indoors.

Funny thing is you can see a similar beach chair and what looks like the same cooler in the edge of the shot. There must be some interesting negatives sitting in a dusty drawer in the archives of RS.

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LexX said:

That first pic is photoshopped, sorry. She wasn't THAT curvy.

I think she looked nice in the bikini back then but to me it doesn't do much, really. Well, it's nice to look at the pics but it's not like WOW everytime I see her. I've watched these films since I was 8 and the characters are close to me, so it's kind of like getting aroused from your cousin or something, not literally of course but I don't fantasise over her, either. If I had seen the films as a teenager it might be different but as a kid it never really had an impact on me.

Really? I don't know either way as I just found it on the net. She was pretty curvy though. She did have a nice a$$(which is apparent from the sail barge sequence) and a very nice rack if that's what you're saying. She was just really covered up in the movie.

 

I was a little older when I watched the movies. I wasn't born until the 90s so I can't comment on the impact it had back then. By the end of Empire, I had really developed a crush on Leia but I never thought of her as 'hot'. Quite frankly, I really hadn't started thinking of women that way yet. This changed when I saw her in the gold bikini though. For me, it was more like being turned on by someone you like. Although at that time, I didn't really know what I was feeling when I saw her in that. All i knew was that I just really liked looking at her in that.  It didn't help that I had just started going through puberty as well. Leia was the first woman I had ever seen naked and the fact that I already knew and had a slight crush on the character made it all the more hotter IMO.

I guess the fact that most teens are going through puberty when they see this is why it has become so iconic. As for me, Leia in that gold bikini was my ultimate teenage fantasy. This is exactly why I still have a special place for it. This I why I think it became that popular. 

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I was in between 4th and 5th grade when I first saw ROTJ, so I wasn't aroused by Slave Leia, since I didn't start finding girls sexually attractive until after starting the 7th grade (you could call me a late bloomer, I guess). I knew she was meant to be titillating, though, and that made me uneasy since I wasn't really comfortable with viewing blatant sexuality with my family back in those days.

Later on, though, I did find her arousing in that outfit, but only mildly so; her "assets" were obscured behind the loincloth, and she wasn't filmed from particularly great angles, IMHO, to take full advantage of her "curvaceousness". Overall, I find Slave Leia in ROTJ underwhelming.

If you take drawn depictions of Slave Leia into consideration, though ...

... then it's a different story altogether =P

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I was 7 when ROTJ premiered.  I agree with LexX-- because of being exposed to TESB at age 4, Leia/Carrie is like an aunt or something to me.  I can't really think that way about her.  IIRC, I felt bad/embarrassed for Leia for being forced to wear something like that.

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I thought her bod looked pretty good. I've never thought Carrie is pretty face-wise (to me she'll always look like a cuter, female Eddie Fisher) but she was definitely in good shape back then. I actually just finished watching her on Craig Ferguson & she looks like she's gained back some of the Jenny Craig weight. :-/

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I just wish her face looked like it did in SW or Empire.  All that coke snorting made her look like she was in her 40's by the time of Jedi.

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After seeing these pics I remember now why I fell in love with Star Wars when I was a kid :-)

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It was a bit of a U turn from gaffer tape to metalkini.

It was straight off a Frank Frazetta cover.

Maybe if there had been more boobs and muscles in a recent sadly truncated Disney title, the film would have good a broader appeal.

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timdiggerm said:

As usual, I'd like to remind you that ESB Leia is far more attractive.

Agreed. I like her a lot more in TESB, she's much prettier. Also have to agree that ROTJ didn't showcase her much in the bikini, most of the time she was just still.

This topic also remind me, I have poster banners from the 2004 DVD campaign which also includes life-size (at least almost) slave Leia poster which has been hanging in my room for 8 years and I've got a couple of comments having a big bikini girl poster hanging there but I'm like "umm, it's just Leia", LOL. It's not a big deal for me whether she's in the bikini or not.

Btw, I do have to wonder if Leia has influenced my taste of women, LOL. I like brunettes who aren't pushovers, can talk back and can be funny. Everything stems from somewhere so could be...

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My favorite look: 70s mall girl. I would like to pick her up in my Trans Am, go see Bay City Rollers.

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timdiggerm said:

As usual, I'd like to remind you that ESB Leia is far more attractive.

Oh c'mon, you know Medal Ceremony Leia is hot:

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Wolfman said:

 

I like this posed shot...

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110311223938/slaveleia/images/8/86/SlaveLeia1.jpg

 

 

Her face looks really weird in the shot.

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Like one side of her face has lines/wrinkles while the other side doesn't?
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Baronlando said:

My favorite look: 70s mall girl. I would like to pick her up in my Trans Am, go see Bay City Rollers.

Agree, nice pic. She was very cute back then. IMO she was also very cute in Star Wars and Empire, her look in Jedi is very much like the film itself, uninteresting. Some more nice pictures of her:

^ Young Carrie in the film Shampoo from '75.

A beauty high on coke.

Unrelated to the topic, but when I searched around for Carrie pics on the net I found these two:

Someone made an animated gif of that filmstrip in the making of book, kinda nice.

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Where do you dig up these B&W slave shots? :) Cool pics everybody.

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LexX said:

Where do you dig up these B&W slave shots?

That sounds sooooo wrong out of context.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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With that B&W shot, I think it's a combination of the lighting and possibly the makeup not being touched up.

We're also seeing a lot of these pictures in much better quality than we would in old magazines or newspapers. They would probably do some digital tweaking to such a photo today.

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