# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/61 "2007-05-07T13:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] 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- [/QUOTE] No, of course not. As I’ve already explained, I was surprised at the timing of the scene. The other two scenes (at the start, and on the staircase) were feel completely natural. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/62 "2007-05-07T14:41:49Z")
[QUOTE=cheeky] :rolleyes: Just asking for clarification. [insert non-offensive, though perturbed smilie here] [/QUOTE] This one has to do with board history as much as anything else. Smilies weren’t the problem - the attitude of **lissener** to **Evil Captor** was the problem. **Skip** nailed it; if **lis** had a problem with **Evil** ’s content, he chose the 100% wrong way to express it. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/63 "2007-05-07T14:54:15Z")
How about the nude wrestling scene in _Women in Love_? Featuring Oliver Reed & Alan Bates. Set in a study lit only by firelight. Back when full frontal _anything_ was rare. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/64 "2007-05-07T15:05:55Z")
I tried to post on my blackberry over the weekend, but it didn’t seem to take. I did mention the Crying Game and agree exactly with what Onecentstamp said. I also thought that any full frontal male nudity is a bit shocking. It is just so rare. A few others: - In the “don’t panic” scene of airplane, the woman with the large breasts running across the aisle was crazy. - Monica Belluci et al coming through the floor to vampire seduce Keanu in Dracula was great. - Amanda Peet’s distraction in the Whole Nine Yards really worked. - The Japanese girl in Babel. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/65 "2007-05-07T15:16:58Z")
What about Billy Bob and Halie Berry going at it from just about every angle in _Monster’s Ball_? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/66 "2007-05-07T15:39:43Z")
[QUOTE=gouda] No, of course not. As I’ve already explained, I was surprised at the timing of the scene. The other two scenes (at the start, and on the staircase) were feel completely natural. [/QUOTE] Okay then. I am just suprised by nudity on screen. I don’t expect it. The story is irrelevant–what’s unexpected is to see someone’s naughty bits in a movie theater. Breasts and butts, not so suprising. Penises and vaginas, suprising. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/67 "2007-05-07T16:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] You’re right. I’m against movie censorship in principle, but I know a lot of people who would really enjoy _Amelie_ were it not for that very brief scene. Seems gratuitous, given the tone and content of the rest of the movie. So I don’t recommend it to some (older, conservative folks and younger teens). [/QUOTE] Thanks, that’s exactly what I wanted to say 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/68 "2007-05-07T16:21:23Z")
[QUOTE=r4nd0mNumb3rs] _Sideways_. If you saw the movie, you know which one I’m referring to. (hint: car window) [/QUOTE] Yeah, there’s that one, which totally cracked me up, but there’s also the earlier one when Miles returns to his motel room. Whoa! “Not now!” ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/69 "2007-05-07T16:34:08Z")
Strangers With Candy, “Who Wants Cake?” Stephen Colbert. Surprise nude-drawing scene. The outtakes are even more “fun.” Wow, of the three posts I’ve made in about a year, two had to do with Stephen Colbert. I think I need help. 😉 Guess that’s not a movie. Still, it was a surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/70 "2007-05-07T16:38:53Z")
Melanie Griffith’s quick flash in **Nobody’s Fool**. Took me by surprise, fer sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/71 "2007-05-07T18:02:15Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] 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 [/QUOTE] Actually, it did make sense. Emma’s character was shown to be repressed, and doing everything the safe way. She decided that she would start doing things differently, taking more risks, eyc. starting right now. And since the only available man was the housekeeper’s son … ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/72 "2007-05-07T18:06:43Z")
The Lolita in _Broken Flowers_. That was one jaw-dropping event. [QUOTE=Evil Captor] One example that springs to mind is Emma Thompson’s scene in, I believe, Howard’s End. At some point one of the characters opens a door to a bedroom, without any buildup at all, and there’s Emma Thompson, stark naked, riding some guy cowgirl style, shagging the living hell out of him. [/QUOTE] I do _not_ recall there being such a scene in _Howards End_. Were you perhaps thinking of _Peter’s Friends_? That movie did have elements of a sex comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/73 "2007-05-07T19:10:11Z")
Angela Bassett’s nude scene in _Supernova_ was surprising because it wasn’t actually Angela Bassett. They took an existing sex scene featuring Robin Tunney and digitally blackfaced her body. Can’t say I was expecting that. ---
**Author:** ![lilflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lilflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilflower)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/74 "2007-05-07T19:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=gouda] Maria Bello in _A History of Violence_. She walks out of the bathroom in an open robe, with all her naughty bits showing.. totally unexpected. [/QUOTE] What surprised me (I’m not sure this was the same scene) was when she and Viggo start the old “69” position - my husband and I were both like “I didn’t know this was a porno”! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/75 "2007-05-07T19:43:24Z")
Another Merchant-Ivory production – Cotton Mary – has a surprisingly long topless scene featuring the well-endowed Sakina Jaffrey – it’s surprising because it’s not a sex scene as such – she’s been found out by her mother (the title character) having an affair with their employer’s husband and they’re having a shouting match. So – mother and daughter arguing – lots of toplessness. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/76 "2007-05-07T19:46:20Z")
[QUOTE=lilflower] What surprised me (I’m not sure this was the same scene) was when she and Viggo start the old “69” position - my husband and I were both like “I didn’t know this was a porno”! [/QUOTE] I cringed at the staircase scene- all I could think was “Ouch! Jesus! Watch out!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/77 "2007-05-07T19:49:03Z")
[QUOTE=phungi] As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought “Harvey Keitel” but stroking off in “_Bad Leiutenant_”… The fact that I (unknowingly) saw both that and _The Piano_ in the same weekend still remains one of my darker moments… [/QUOTE] Evidently my mileage varies…I’m thinking about renting these now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/78 "2007-05-07T20:20:19Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] Angela Bassett’s nude scene in _Supernova_ was surprising because it wasn’t actually Angela Bassett. They took an existing sex scene featuring Robin Tunney and digitally blackfaced her body. Can’t say I was expecting that. [/QUOTE] Huh? Have you got a cite on this, because it makes no sense to me. As for the thread, how is it that nobody has mentioned Borat? Full frontal male nudity is pretty rare - full frontal 350lb nudity is even rarer. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/79 "2007-05-07T20:33:18Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Huh? Have you got a cite on this, because it makes no sense to me. [/QUOTE] It’s in IMDB’s trivia section for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952/80 "2007-05-07T21:18:09Z")
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise since the whole movie built towards it, but I could not get it in my mind that Julie Andrews was going to have a partially nude scene in **S.O.B.** So when it came, there I sat going, “Wow, did that just happen?” which, of course, it had since everyone in the theater had been bombarded with the idea since the beginning of the film. But for Heaven’s sake, it was Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins, Sister Maria, et al. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-nude-sex-scenes-in-the-movies/402952.md?page=5)