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.
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.
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.
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:
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In the “don’t panic” scene of airplane, the woman with the large breasts running across the aisle was crazy.
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Monica Belluci et al coming through the floor to vampire seduce Keanu in Dracula was great.
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Amanda Peet’s distraction in the Whole Nine Yards really worked.
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The Japanese girl in Babel.
What about Billy Bob and Halie Berry going at it from just about every angle in Monster’s Ball?
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.
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Thanks, that’s exactly what I wanted to say 
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!”
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.
Melanie Griffith’s quick flash in Nobody’s Fool. Took me by surprise, fer sure.
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 …
The Lolita in Broken Flowers. That was one jaw-dropping event.
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.
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.
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”!
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.
I cringed at the staircase scene- all I could think was “Ouch! Jesus! Watch out!”
Evidently my mileage varies…I’m thinking about renting these now.
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
It’s in IMDB’s trivia section for the movie.
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.