What if the movie is about the weakness of the men falling for a woman like Nana? Nana, not especially pretty and whose greatest value is her willingness to be naked. The movie not about a lithe, pretty teenage courtesan, but about week kneed men who fall for such a strumpet.
The giveaway to that theme is the Count reduced to humiliation by Nana to chasing sticks like a dog. And then he mortgages one of his houses to buy a Black Slave as fighter--only to have the Black Slave lose the fight and bring thee Count to ruination. (Ignore the ambiguity of the sex scene with him in presence of a horse...)
More than one man has been brought to foolish ruination by said strumpet teenager appearing naked. Only to realize said naked strumpet has no value except when she is naked. But the male ends up the foolish looser.
The giveaway to that theme is the Count reduced to humiliation by Nana to chasing sticks like a dog. And then he mortgages one of his houses to buy a Black Slave as fighter--only to have the Black Slave lose the fight and bring thee Count to ruination. (Ignore the ambiguity of the sex scene with him in presence of a horse...)
More than one man has been brought to foolish ruination by said strumpet teenager appearing naked. Only to realize said naked strumpet has no value except when she is naked. But the male ends up the foolish looser.