# What familiar movie/tv scenes would be better with nudity and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187 "2005-11-15T17:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/21 "2005-11-15T20:17:48Z")
During the making of _The Island_, Scarlett Johansson said that it made no sense that her character would wear a bra during a love scene and volunteered to do the scene topless. Michael Bay, proving he is the worst fillmmaker ever, convinced her to do the scene covered up. Natalie Portman, in _Closer_, was another actress who played a stripper who never got naked. Although apparently nude scenes were filmed and Mike Nichols decided to leave them out of the final film. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/22 "2005-11-15T20:20:16Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > Is this a trick question? > > C’mon, it’s a trick question, right? I’m with vibrotronica’s answer. Every one of them. Barring some of the ones that actually happened. No way I should have seen Frank Langella’s bouncing nutsack in Lolita. That was so not necessary. _puke_ ---
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/23 "2005-11-15T20:25:12Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I’m assuming that episode of _Friends_ where Rachel and Monica offer to make out for one minute to get their apartment back? > > Not my cup of tea, but I’m sure someone would have appreciated it… 😉 Yeah, that would have been GREAT, espeically if played for laughs, but somehow not within the characters of Rachel and Monica. Kissing I could see. Kissing naked while Joey and Chandler watched? … not so much. Still, I would have put up with the out-of-characterness for the sake of the nudity. I’m just that kind of guy. What WOULD have been great would have been nudity in the episode “The One Where They Find Out” (I THINK that’s the title) where Rachel and Phoebe find out that Monica and Chandler are an item, and they get into that “but we know that they know that we know they know” thing, leaving Joey very confused. They wind up with Phoebe setting up a fake tryst with Chandler, intending to force him to confess about Monica to avoid it. But he tells Monica about it, and she tells Chandler to go thorugh with it, figuring Phobe will chicken out. (Bad decision, if you ask me. What if Phoebe had sent her evil twin in as a ringer … the one who did porn films? SHE wouldn’t have chickened out.) Anyway, that final scene where neither one of them wants to have sex but they’re both pretending to want to would have been even funnier if they’d gotten naked in the process. And oh yeah, the one where they find out the hard way that Phoebe’s evil twin does porn. We coulda seen the porn. Very, um, dramatic. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/24 "2005-11-15T20:28:03Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > Is this a trick question? > > C’mon, it’s a trick question, right? Yes, it’s not the rather obvious excuse to think about naked actresses that it seems. It’s a … trick … question. Yes. A trick one. 😃 ---
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/25 "2005-11-15T20:31:42Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > “Hi, this is Wilford Brimley for Liberty Medical…we can help you build a better life…” > _gets on horse_ This is the sort of post that makes one NEED life insurance, slortar. 😉 ---
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/26 "2005-11-15T20:36:19Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Geena Davis’ screen debut in Tootsie. I always thought Micheal/Dorothy’s unease around Geena’s bra-and-pantied body was a bit overdone. I’d have bought the unease a bit more if Geena had been topless. yeah, it could have made for some great images of Dustin Hoffman in drag TRYING HIS BEST not to look, but having all sort of problems NOT looking. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/27 "2005-11-15T21:25:29Z")
> [@](#): > > For example, Sigourney Weaver feels that the final scene in “Alien” would have been better if she had been nude during it. In an interview after the film’s release she said she was ready to doff her panties and bra and do the whole thing el buffo because she felt it would have heightened the dramatic tension to see her totally naked and apparently helpless while the Alien uncoiled itself inside her escape pod. I agree. It would have been a MUCH better scene. But the producers nixed it because of concerns over foreign distribution. (Sigh. We’ll all be watching movies starring women dressed in burkhas throughout if we dont’ watch out.) May I just say, this is perhaps the greatest tragedy of Hollywood I’ve heard of. People, when Sigourney Weaver offers to get naked, you say “Yes”! Even if it doesn’t ratchet up the dramatic tension. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/28 "2005-11-15T21:41:32Z")
_Firefly/Serenity._ - C’mon…Inara is a courtesan. We should have seen her courtesaning el buffo. Especially with her more _interesting_ clients (speaking as a hetero male). In _Serenity_ Kaylee complains about having “nothing between her nethers that didn’t have batteries.” This would have made a fascinating flashback. _The Adventires of Hercules/Xena_ - Aphrodite nekkid. Gabrielle nekkid. Hercules nekkid, for those of you with no interest in Aphrodite. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/29 "2005-11-15T22:13:44Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > **The Golden Girls** , had it been filmed by an all-nude cast, would have taken television to a whole new level. It would have brought my vomit to a whole new level, too. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/30 "2005-11-15T22:22:46Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Sigourney Weaver feels that the final scene in “Alien” would have been better if she had been nude during it… she felt it would have heightened the dramatic tension to see her totally naked and apparently helpless Steve Martin did a tongue-in-cheek review of Alien in which he said that he thought her outfit really ramped up the dramatic tension because you not only wondered if the alien was gonna kill her, but also if her underwear was going to stay on. 😉 > [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > All of the scenes in all those movies in which the woman after having sex sits up with the sheets pulled up over her breasts. This is always so phony that it takes me out of the picture immediately. This is what I came into the thread to say. Also the related thing of having women wear a bra during sex. In my life, I have had sex while never getting around to unfastening her bra, but the number of times that’s happened is rather less frequently than you’d expect by watching Sex & the City. > [@silenus](#): > > _Firefly/Serenity._ - C’mon…Inara is a courtesan. We should have seen her courtesaning el buffo. Especially with her more _interesting_ clients (speaking as a hetero male). I don’t really agree. Inara got her kit off with refrehsing regularity, and although TV restrictions forced some decorum, it was well-enough costumed and directed that you never felt that they were _hiding_ Baccarin’s boobs, or that Inara was doing anything at all inapprpriate (character-wise, of course), unlike the bed sheet thing. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/31 "2005-11-15T22:39:09Z")
When the Jamie Lee Curtis character found herself in Lindsay Lohan’s body in _Freaky Friday_, she should have started running around naked just because she could. Not that I’d say no to more Jamie Lee Curtis, of course. She’s one of those ageless hotties. I’m just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/32 "2005-11-15T22:52:50Z")
Sometimes I watch movies nude.Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/33 "2005-11-15T22:55:46Z")
The orgy bits in _Eyes Wide Shut._ I mean before the digitally-inserted folks who “conveniently” blocked most of the views. At least it’d make that wretched movie less mind-numbingly dull. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/34 "2005-11-15T23:10:48Z")
If you lived in the UK, you might have been “lucky” enough to seen [Naked Jungle](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/782463.stm). With Keith Chegwin. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/35 "2005-11-15T23:25:32Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > For example, Sigourney Weaver feels that the final scene in “Alien” would have been better if she had been nude during it. In an interview after the film’s release she said she was ready to doff her panties and bra and do the whole thing el buffo because she felt it would have heightened the dramatic tension to see her totally naked and apparently helpless while the Alien uncoiled itself inside her escape pod. I read the novelization of _Alien_ the week before I saw it in the theatre. Alan Dean Foster _did_ make “birthday suit” the dress code for the hibernation pods, and I was terribly disappointed to learn that Ridley Scott apparently had other priorities. That probably had a lot to do with my disinclination to bother with any of the sequels. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/36 "2005-11-15T23:30:14Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > When the Jamie Lee Curtis character found herself in Lindsay Lohan’s body in _Freaky Friday_, she should have started running around naked just because she could. > > Not that I’d say no to more Jamie Lee Curtis, of course. She’s one of those ageless hotties. > > I’m just sayin’. Lindsay Lohan just doesn’t appeal to me; I doubt I would have found her nekkid body particularly engrossing. I agree with you about Jamie Lee Curtis’s body, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/37 "2005-11-16T00:05:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Lindsay Lohan just doesn’t appeal to me; I doubt I would have found her nekkid body particularly engrossing. I agree with you now that she’s gone anorexic. Bleh. She used to be much softer and rounder. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/38 "2005-11-16T00:42:35Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > Sometimes I watch movies nude.Does that count? Fascinating juxtaposition of username and comment. I’ll have to come over and watch movies with you sometime. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/39 "2005-11-16T00:55:00Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > When the Jamie Lee Curtis character found herself in Lindsay Lohan’s body in _Freaky Friday_, she should have started running around naked just because she could. Totally unrelated to the thread topic, but I remember an episode of some show that did the reverse aging thing and the now teenaged father spent the whole episode in the bathroom masturbating. Pretty funny. I wish I could remember the show. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/40 "2005-11-16T03:29:12Z")
Janet’s boob had a pasty over it, right? If there was an actual nipple, I might have understood the outrage. Every movie where someone transforms shape and miraculously transforms clothing, too. I mean, transforming clothes? Feh. (The Thing, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mystique in X-Men) Every movie where someone gains mass but the tattered remains of their clothes just happens to cover up their genitalia. (The Hulk, Mina Harker and Mr. Hyde in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Attack of The 50 Foot Woman) Every movie EVER where a woman is topless except for two long tresses of hair strategically hanging over her boobs. (Zorro, Splash, etc.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187.md?page=3)