Did Catherine Breillat’s “Romance” (1999) feature actual sex between two of the principals? Rocco Siffredi was in it but that doesn’t necessarily mean for-real ugly-bumping.
In Gone With the Wind, Olivia DeHavilland really was completely nude for the scene in which they had to clean up the blood of the dead Union soldier with her clothes. Quite daring for 1939.
I believe it was in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane that Bette Davis actually had to carry Joan Crawford, who played an invalid (no stuntwoman for Bette). Since the two despised each other, Joan secreted lead weights under her clothes to make it more difficult for Bette.
Did I really say Little Nell? Apparently I did. My memory used to be a more reliable database. Thanks, Walloon, for correcting me at such length. I’m usually on the other end of such posts; now I know how annoying it is to be on the receiving end.
I should mention the Japanese movie In the Realm of the Senses, which I just got on DVD. This includes, definitely, actual coitus and fellatio, not to mention a close-up of an egg being inserted into the lead actress’ vagina. Rather amazing, given that (as I understand it) in Japan even the movies meant to be porn don’t show genitals.
No. You can see the swimsuit that Olivia de Havilland is wearing, even without freezing the frames.
John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara…I can’t remember the movie. She was talking about it on AFI’s countdown of the top 100 romantic movies.
Anyway, in the scene, Maureen’s character is supposed to slap John Wayne’s face. Well, she was pissed off at the Duke about something, and really went to slug him. She said he saw something in her eyes, and went to block her hand. She ended up breaking a bone in her finger.
I heard that John de Lancie as Q was nude in the ST:NG episode where he loses his powers. They couldn’t figure out how to get the shot right with him wearing a thong or whatever, so he did it nude.
Mighta been The Quiet Man or McClintock!.
Rather than continue to hijack Beelrix’s thread, I’ve opened a new thread about having sex on camera here.
The Quiet Man sounds right.
In those days, that was nude!
Stay Tuned(I think that was the title)- John Ritter is a couch potato sucked into Satan’s cable system and pursued by a Diabolical network executive(Jeffrey Jones).
One of the scenes occurs in a cowboy film. Ritter opens a saloon door, and it falls off in his hand. He looks embarrassed, checks to see if anybody saw it happen, and gingerly props the door up against the wall.
Ritter himself said that it was not in the script. The door wasn't supposed to fall off. But comedy is comedy.A classic: In It’s a Wonderful Life, when George is crying in Martini’s bar. It was shot as a wide field, but the crying was so good that they went through it frame by frame to blow it up into a closeup.
In 1941 there was a scene where John Belushi, as Wild Bill Kelso, starts ranting at a bunch of paranoid soldiers while standing on the wing of his P-40. Belushi walked towards the front of the wing, and his foot slipped over the front and he did a perfect swan dive onto his head onto concrete from about 8ft in the air.
They left it in the movie, and it’s now one of the more memorable scenes.
In Blade Runner, there’s a scene where Pris (Daryl Hannah) meets J.S. Sebastian outside his apartment. She runs off, skids on the wet pavement and hits a parked car smashing it’s window. In an interview I read, Daryl says the collision was unscripted and she actually chipped the bone in her elbow hitting the car.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes there is a helicopter crash early on which was unscripted and remains in the film
In THE GRADUATE, director Mike Nichols and Dustin Hoffman arrange for him to touch Anne Bancroft’s (clothed) breast when she wasn’t expecting it, and her response (and Hoffman’s own emotional and out-of-character response) was left in the movie.
If I was being coy above, Hoffman’s response was to bang his head against the wall in embarrassment, which Nichols turned into the character Ben’s (unscripted) embarrassment.
I don’t know if this counts, but in Seven, Brad Pitt really did mess up his hand. He fell on a car windshield during a take. They worked it into the script.
And in *Fight Club[/]i, when Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are hitting golf balls, they really are drunk and the thud you hear is the golf balls hitting the catering truck.
I wonder if this is why Die Hard 2 is full of physical impossibilities.
Eva Marie Saint really dropped her glove while shooting On the Waterfront, and Marlon Brando improvised the rest of the now-famous “glove scene”.