# Surprise nude/sex scenes in the movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952 "2007-05-06T03:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/21 "2007-05-06T07:17:38Z")
[QUOTE=cheeky] Can someone point me to the rule on this? I thought smilies, emoticons, whatever, on this site were cool. [/QUOTE] Are you serious? Did you read the Mod’s post? Do you really think that the problem was that **Lissener** used an emoticon? Hopefully I’ve been whooshed here… :dubious: -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/22 "2007-05-06T07:19:12Z")
[QUOTE=cheeky] See, this didn’t surprise me in the whole context of the scene. Y’know, married folks. [/QUOTE] Really? You really thought they were suprised that married folks would be naked around each other? That’s really what you thought? :dubious: -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![cheeky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@cheeky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheeky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/23 "2007-05-06T07:24:02Z")
The nakedness in the scene did not surprise me because the characters were married and used to seeing each other naked. Why gouda thought that Mario Bella nude was surprising is a question you can ask him/her. And, do please use a smilie. ---
**Author:** ![cheeky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@cheeky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheeky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/24 "2007-05-06T07:26:24Z")
:rolleyes: [QUOTE=Frylock] Are you serious? Did you read the Mod’s post? Do you really think that the problem was that **Lissener** used an emoticon? Hopefully I’ve been whooshed here… :dubious: -FrL- [/QUOTE] Just asking for clarification. [insert non-offensive, though perturbed smilie here] ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/25 "2007-05-06T09:38:15Z")
28 Days I keep wonderong if this repeats in 28 Weeks! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/26 "2007-05-06T11:08:15Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable] Though, since the eventual warning would really be based on multiple empty posts and not just the one, perhaps this doesn’t count as really breaking the record. [/QUOTE] Come on. Of course many empty posts don’t add up to more than one emoticon. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/27 "2007-05-06T11:28:58Z")
In **Heaven’s Prisoners** there’s a scene outside a Louisianna house with Alec Baldwin talking to Eric Roberts. As Alec is leaving the camera pans to a balcony, and there’s Teri Hatcher, showing all her housewifey bits. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/28 "2007-05-06T11:40:27Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] In **Heaven’s Prisoners** there’s a scene outside a Louisianna house with Alec Baldwin talking to Eric Roberts. As Alec is leaving the camera pans to a balcony, and there’s Teri Hatcher, showing all her housewifey bits. [/QUOTE] I was disappointed in that scene, they’re real, and NOT spectacular, making that Seifeld epi rather ironic. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/29 "2007-05-06T12:24:52Z")
[QUOTE=cheeky] The nakedness in the scene did not surprise me because the characters were married and used to seeing each other naked. Why gouda thought that Mario Bella nude was surprising is a question you can ask him/her. And, do please use a smilie. [/QUOTE] IIRC, this scene takes place soon after Maria’s character finds out her husband’s real history, and the two aren’t on speaking terms at that point. I’m not married an’ all, but I don’t think wives do much nekkid walking around their husbands when they’re fighting. Or maybe that’s just me. And him. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/30 "2007-05-06T13:05:33Z")
[QUOTE=cheeky] Unless the OP is thinking of the “The Tall Guy.” Emma fucks a lot in that one, too. [/QUOTE] I don’t think there’s any “cowgirl” style in her shagging of Jeff Goldblum. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/31 "2007-05-06T13:17:23Z")
[QUOTE=cheeky] Um, I think the Emma Thompson movie in the OP is “Peter’s Friends,” not “Howard’s End.” Though an adaption of E.M. Forster with _anyone_ fucking cowgirl style would be, well, different. And “Peter’s Friends” was about a group of contemporaries meeting up for a reunion. There’s lots of drinking, talking, fucking and even AIDS in the film, so it’s hardly a “droll tragicomedy.” Unless the OP is thinking of the “The Tall Guy.” Emma fucks a lot in that one, too. [/QUOTE] You may well be right about “Peter’s Friends” I’m not so sure about which movie the scene was in. The thing that made the scene surprising wasn’t the absence of other sex scenes in the movie, it was the total absence of a set-up: the door just opens and there’s Emma Thompson, going at it like there’s no tomorrow. Probably the vigor and general bounciness of the sex had a certain surprise effect, too. l ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/32 "2007-05-06T14:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I think the shock of seeing Kevin’s Bacon may have confused you. I believe you’re actually talking about _Wild Things_ not _Heavenly Creatures_. [/QUOTE] Yes, yes, you’re right. I guess after that experience I tried so hard to forget the movie that I forgot the name even. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/33 "2007-05-06T15:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=gouda] IIRC, this scene takes place soon after Maria’s character finds out her husband’s real history, and the two aren’t on speaking terms at that point. I’m not married an’ all, but I don’t think wives do much nekkid walking around their husbands when they’re fighting. Or maybe that’s just me. And him. [/QUOTE] Okay, but wasn’t your suprise just at the fact of the nudity itself, regardless of its context in the story? In other words, even if they were happily married at the time, wouldn’t you have been suprised by the sudden nudity? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/34 "2007-05-06T16:39:31Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] Does the Schwarzenpecker in The Terminator count? Blink and you miss it, but it’s there in all its Austrian glory near the begining. [/QUOTE] In the LOTR movies there are several peeks at Mini-Smeagol. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/35 "2007-05-06T17:03:33Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] I was permanently scarred by seeing a surprise, long shot of a full-frontal Harvey Keitel in _The Piano_. :eek: [/QUOTE] You should probably stay away from _Bad Lieutenant_. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/36 "2007-05-06T17:10:31Z")
“Team America World Police” I thought it was a nostalgic Thunderbirds marionette children’s movie. Turns out it was a spoof of a nostalgic Thunderbirds marionette children’s movie. I didn’t clue in until the shit eating sex scene. I’m just glad that is wasn’t one of the movies that I brought over the previous weekend to watch with my neighbours and their young kids. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/37 "2007-05-06T17:19:09Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] In the LOTR movies there are several peeks at Mini-Smeagol. [/QUOTE] You mean…his _precioussss?_ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/38 "2007-05-06T17:20:24Z")
I wasn’t expecting to see Graham Chapman’s pecker in The Life of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/39 "2007-05-06T17:21:18Z")
_Sideways_. If you saw the movie, you know which one I’m referring to. (hint: car window) _Mulholland Drive_. For the whole movie (which I admitted watched half asleep) I wasn’t sure if the sexual tension between the two female leads was just in my head or not until they finally started kissing and then I was all “hell yeah” and woke up completely. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/40 "2007-05-06T17:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] You mean…his _precioussss?_ [/QUOTE] The movies come across rather…differently if you interpret his lines like that. “We musn’t let them have it!” “We take the Precious, and we be the master!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952.md?page=3)