OMG that if fucking hilarious. I miss John Ritter
I’ll be in my bunk.
It may have already have been posted, but I have come and gone from this thread a couple of times so I missed it if it has been posted.
There is no real point for Jo Beth Williams’ nudity in Teachers. I liked it, but really - not necessary.
The opening scene of Red Heat. Seems like gratuitous nudity to me anyway.
Here’s the youtube link that’s been clipped to be more SFW although it still might not be.
You often see alternate scenes with more clothes, when the movies finally make it to commercial TV. For instance, in Animal House, where Jennings is in Katy’s kitchen reaching for the matches, he’s wearing a pair of trousers, in the TV version.
I always wondered why Susan Sarandon didn’t lose the clothes in Rocky Horror. It actually made sense for the character’s transformation. At the beginning Janet is a shy virgin. As she goes through the movie she loses her inhibitions. Having her run around in a bra is pretty silly.
I’ve seen Susan’s boobs plenty of times. I lost count of how many movies she’s done nudity. It’s a lot. Odd, the one time the character needed to undress, Susan gets shy.
dammit Janet
Oh but She Hulk did show a little nippleage once in a graphic novel.
Sorta NSFW? I guess?
Just for those who might be interested, Kirsten Dunst has ended her no-nudity phase, with a scene in the upcoming movie All Good Things
[spoiler]link to a web page featuring nude captures from the film. Obviously NSFW, for link does not work - you’re gonna have to remove the gratuitous spaces, you perv!
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Thank you for that, they are indeed lovely.
Here’s another two-fer: Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues. Bleek, the main character played by Denzel Washington, has two girlfriends: the very bodacious Clarke Betencourt (played by Cynda Williams) and Indigo Downes, played by Spike’s litle sister Joie Lee. The director raised some eyebrows when he showed back-to-back booty calls to both girlfriends. We got to see Clarke’s pendulous charlies, but not Indigo’s. (Blake Edwards never had these problems, did he? I recall his wife and daughter showing some skin in S.O.B.)
Lohan in Machete. 
The problem of gratuitous non-nudity among movie strippers is, of course, among the great conundrums of the ages. I ascribe most of it to the directors. Say you are the guy or gal who cast the role of Nancy the stripper in Sin City. You know you need a popular young hottie actress who’s wiliing to strip naked and shake that thing for the role. You can pay top dollar, it’s a high-profile project, so you know that you have a large pool of young hottie actresses who can handle the VERY MINIMAL acting requirements of the role, with the requisite good looks and the willingness to perform naked, many of whom would be well known to young males who would be interested in this particular character, hence could get eyes in the theater.
So who do you cast? Jessica Alba, who has made it clear throughout her career that she will not appear in the nude. You cast her. As a stripper. Now I do not blame Jessica Alba in the least here. It is her body, her career, her decision. And whether or not to cast her for the role is your decision. And YOU made a bad decision, Mr. or Ms. Casting Director. (Note, the casting director may have been INSTRUCTED to cast Alba for the role, and to tell her she need not appear nude in it, by the director or someone else with the clout to do so, in which case it is not the casting director’s fault. I’m just using the casting director as shorthand for whoever made that bad, bad, bad stinky decision.
Furthermore, in the case of Sin City the nudity was not gratuitous. Consider: Bruce Willis’ character took great risks and endured considerable personal loss (can’t remember offhand if he is killed or not) to save Nancy from being molested/killed when she is a child. Now we see her as a grownup, working as a stripper in a dingy bar. So it seems Willis’ sacrifice might have been in vain. Seeing her working as a Clothed Stripper doing some mildly sexy hip rolls makes the point, but just barely. Seeing her writhing obscenely while stark naked would have made the point a LOT more powerfully. So casting Not Getting Naked Jessica Alba as Nancy failed dramatically as well as in the area of getting male viewers interested. So dumb.
I think you’re reading some of your own desires into Sin City. It was pointed out that while Nancy might be a stripper, she was still a “good girl.” She wrote to Willis in jail constantly and she was a good person (unlike the majority of Sin City’s residents).
Making her a really nasty, dirty stripper makes that harder to believe. It also goes a little bit against the movie’s constant parade of heroic and noble women. All of them (save for Alexis Bleidel) were heroic (and sexy) in their own way. Carla Gugino took a very slow walk around the room wearing nothing but a smile. Jessica Alba didn’t (and neither did most of the rest of the female cast).
This comes to mind. This is not a very good link but all I could find, but the worse part that was forever etched on my brain is the sight of Borat’s grossly obese “manager” running into a startled and incredulous audience at some Hotel conference. Disturbing and of course NSFW
The rose-petal dream scene in American Beauty is one that comes to mind. The scene is supposed to show Lester’s sexual fantasy. Somehow, I don’t think he *really *would be fantazising Angela with a few petals strategically covering her breasts and lady bits.
No, he’s right. That is the textbook example of gratuitous non-nudity.
First, it is simply not believable that in the world of Sin City people would be transfixed by the type of conservative (for that context) performance in the movie. It is immediately jarring for that reason.
Second, it was a totally unnecessary and easily avoided deviation from the comic, in a movie which in almost every respect tried to be faithful to the comic.
Third, it is arguable (and I would argue) that the change weakens the story. The comic version isn’t just different for no reason, it has more impact and makes more sense in the context of Sin City.
I think you’re reading some of your own desires into Sin City.
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Why, how naked did Nancy get in the original?
Not really. I agree that the women in Sin City are overwhelmingly heroic, but they were mostly whores and strippers. I was under the impression from the movie (never read the comic) that the intent was to create a character who was a hot, nasty stripper and a good girl … as you say, writing to Willis while he was in jail, treating Marv decently instead of being frightened of him, even as she makes a living cranking men’s libidoes with her naked body. I figured the author was aiming at a deeper level of complexity for the character and the story. Not sure he got to that level in any event, but the non-stripping stripper sure didn’t help.
I’ll disagree. Considering that they showed her naked ( topless ) later, the director/producers and the actress were clearly not shy about nudity. No, in this case it was clearly an artistic choice rather than a gratuitous choice. One I can buy. I can accept someone having an arty, teasing fantasy where the naughty bits are hinted at, but not quite revealed - some folks get off on that sort of thing ;).
I’ve only flipped through the original comic, but if I remember right, Nancy’s nudity was mostly kept in the shadows.
Slightly off-topic: I just realized that Rose McGowan’s constant refrain of “I’m not a stripper, I’m a go-go dancer” in Rodriguez’s Planet Terror was probably a direct reference to Jessica Alba’s refusal to get naked when playing a “stripper” in Sin City.