# Jumped the Swordfish; list them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311 "2009-04-16T18:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/21 "2009-04-16T20:34:15Z")
Or The Simpsons Movie. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/22 "2009-04-16T20:37:07Z")
**Basic Instinct** and the infamous Sharon Stone beaver shot ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/23 "2009-04-16T20:45:28Z")
\*Half Moon Street \*Sigourney Weaver \*Death And The Maiden \*Sigourney Weaver \*The Last Detail \*Carol Kane ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/24 "2009-04-16T20:54:48Z")
It’s not even full nudity, but “Oh my God, Mary Poppins flashes her tits!” was the only reason [S.O.B.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083015/) got any notice at all. [The Piano](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/) was a highly acclaimed film with Oscar-winning performances, but I bet the first image that comes to many people’s mind when remembering the movie is naked Harvey Keitel (although it wasn’t his first nude scene). It really should have been called “The Pianist.” The recent [The Watchmen](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/) may be remembered, to the extent that it is remembered at all, to be the first major motion picture to prominently feature a CGI schlong. ETA: Oops, I see somebody mentioned S.O.B., but I gave a little more info, so there. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/25 "2009-04-16T21:01:43Z")
Oh, and there are lots of other reasons to remember [Monty Python’s Life of Brian](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/), but I remember it was the first time I’d seen full frontal male nudity (Graham Chapman) in a feature film. I recall wondering if I’d really seen what I thought I’d seen. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/26 "2009-04-16T21:07:19Z")
Sirens - Elle Macpherson I just checked IMDb. Talk about remembering a movie only for its nudity. Hugh Grant starred? Portia di Rossi? Sam Neill? At the time the only thing the articles talked about was that Macpherson and the other models had to put on weight so they’d look good in the nude scenes. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/27 "2009-04-16T22:00:57Z")
Well two obvious ones not mentioned: Striptease - Demi Moore Showgirls - Elizabeth Berkley ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/28 "2009-04-16T22:36:58Z")
Bound ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/29 "2009-04-16T23:20:39Z")
Angel Heart. Naked Huxtable. What else could you want? ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/30 "2009-04-16T23:27:15Z")
28 posts and no mention of _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_?? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/31 "2009-04-17T00:42:14Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > \*Half Moon Street \*Sigourney Weaver Dunno about this one. I had cable with a movie channel in the late 80’s and this movie was on pretty constant rotation. There’s a long scene where Sigourney is talking with some guy while she exercises topless on an exercise bike but the dialog is so tedious that I was never able to sit through the whole scene. Seriously, it was about the least erotic topless scene imaginable (up until Showgirls was released). Sigourney’s strip tease in Alien was 1000 times sexier than anything in Half Moon Street, and she never even got naked. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/32 "2009-04-17T00:56:34Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Eastern Promises (for me, anyway…all I remember about it is the extended nude Viggo Mortensen fight in the sauna) What a coincidence - that is all I remember about the film as well. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/33 "2009-04-17T01:15:57Z")
**Women in Love** with it’s infamous extended scene in which Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestle _completely naked_. 😃 In some countries local censors ordered that scene cut so it skips from the actors fully clothed alone in a room to naked and sweaty laying on a carpet (which of course gives the impression that they were fucking instead of wrestling). In Argentina it was even called “the Great Buggery scene”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/34 "2009-04-17T01:38:54Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Ecstasy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_(film)) Hedy Lamarr’s nude scene is the only reason it’s remembered. That’s _Headly!_ _Airplane!_ had that brief torso. [Kitten Natividad](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001563/) Uncredited. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/35 "2009-04-17T02:36:06Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Dunno about this one. I had cable with a movie channel in the late 80’s and this movie was on pretty constant rotation. There’s a long scene where Sigourney is talking with some guy while she exercises topless on an exercise bike but the dialog is so tedious that I was never able to sit through the whole scene. Seriously, it was about the least erotic topless scene imaginable (up until Showgirls was released). > > Sigourney’s strip tease in Alien was 1000 times sexier than anything in Half Moon Street, and she never even got naked. You may have seen an edited version of _Half Moon Street_. There is a scene where her boyfriend comes into the bathroom where she is taking a bath and she is shown naked from the waist up with a clear view of her breasts. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/36 "2009-04-17T02:40:02Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > **Women in Love** with it’s infamous extended scene in which Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestle _completely naked_. Maybe it’s because I only became familiar with them older and fatter, but that is a scene I’d pay NOT to see. :eek: Or not pay and still not see, which is how it worked out. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/37 "2009-04-17T02:52:04Z")
> [@](#): > > You may have seen an edited version of Half Moon Street. There is a scene where her boyfriend comes into the bathroom where she is taking a bath and she is shown naked from the waist up with a clear view of her breasts. I think the point he was making is that Weaver never got naked in _Alien_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/38 "2009-04-17T02:54:31Z")
Taking a step beyond nudity, I’m pretty sure the only thing _The Brown Bunny_ will ever be remembered for is Chloe Sevigny’s fellatio scene. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/39 "2009-04-17T03:57:31Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > 28 posts and no mention of _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_?? Did anyone really go “Holy crap!! Phoebe Cates is doing a nude scene?!” with regard to that one? Or even “Holy crap!! Jennifer Jason Leigh is doing two nude scenes?!”? Did anyone really know who they were before this movie? Getting naked in the movie that basically makes a career is not the same as a known actress (or actor for you sausage fans) choosing to get naked in a role, which from the OP seems to be what the topic is meant to be about. Though I could be wrong, if so, sorry. That’s without getting into whether Fast Times is known just or mostly for the nude scenes, which is probably not the case, memorable as they are. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311/40 "2009-04-17T05:42:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Did anyone really go “Holy crap!! Phoebe Cates is doing a nude scene?!” with regard to that one? Or even “Holy crap!! Jennifer Jason Leigh is doing two nude scenes?!”? Did anyone really know who they were before this movie? > > Getting naked in the movie that basically makes a career is not the same as a known actress (or actor for you sausage fans) choosing to get naked in a role, which from the OP seems to be what the topic is meant to be about. Though I could be wrong, if so, sorry. > > That’s without getting into whether Fast Times is known just or mostly for the nude scenes, which is probably not the case, memorable as they are. I agree to a certain extent. Movies like _Swordfish_ or _Sex And Death 101_ or _Hotel Chevalier_ are noted for their nude scenes bcause they feature established stars who haven’t done nude scenes before. But I’d apply it retroactively as well. A movie can be noted for a nude scene if the person in it later goes on to become a well-known star. Such would be the case with movies like _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ or _Twilight_ or _My Name Is Tanino_. After the star becomes famous, people will then go back to see her naked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumped-the-swordfish-list-them/493311.md?page=3)