# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/41 "2005-11-16T04:04:05Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > 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) The T-1000 mimicked clothing. I thought that kind of made sense. Chameleon ability is kind of negated when everybody points and yells “Look at the naked guy!”. I assumed that Mystique was actually copying clothes with her skin. If she can copy hair, Wolverine’s claws, and a 6 foot replica of the Statue Of Liberty, a wardrobe shouldn’t be difficult. In an issue of Exiles, the shapeshifter Morph says ‘What you think I carry around a miraculous shapechanging wardrobe? This may look like a tuxedo, but it’s all me’. Namora is speechless. Spider-Man says “I think the word you’re looking for is ‘eeeeeewwwww’.” Back To The OP Tarzan. Why is the Earl Of Greystoke cleanshaven and wearing a loin cloth? ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/42 "2005-11-16T04:19:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Scumpup > The Golden Girls, had it been filmed by an all-nude cast, would have taken television to a whole new level. > [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > It would have brought my vomit to a whole new level, too. Oh, come on! Who hasn’t had fantasies involving a naked Bea Arthur, a can of whipped cream, and a tuning fork? And don’t _even_ get me started on Estelle Getty…me-Ow! ---
**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 16, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/43 "2005-11-16T04:23:02Z")
> [@EvilAsh](#): > > Oh, come on! Who hasn’t had fantasies involving a naked Bea Arthur, a can of whipped cream, and a tuning fork? > > And don’t _even_ get me started on Estelle Getty…me-Ow! ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/44 "2005-11-16T04:34:17Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Janet’s boob had a pasty over it, right? If there was an actual nipple, I might have understood the outrage. No Janet’s been mentioned on this thread, but if you’re referring to Janet Jackson then the answer is no. She had a shield around the nipple, but no pasty or anything else covering it. For the second it could be blurrily seen with a digital playback. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/45 "2005-11-16T05:55:04Z")
Brendan Fraser should have been shown naked in _Gods & Monsters_, and that’s not just because I want to see Brendan Fraser naked (which I certainly do). I’d have cut away from him, hear him call to Jimmy, and when Jimmy turned around he’d have been naked, which would have shocked the audience (as pleasantly) as Jimmy. I came in to mention _Eyes Wide Shut_ but somebody beat me to it. What kind of husband lets his wife roll around butt-nekkid on camera but won’t show us his own (not even just some booty)? _Arrested Development_ could have really had fun with nudity, particularly the Girls With Low Self Esteem videos, and I wanna see Jason Bateman nekkid (and have since he and I were both adolescents). I think some unrated SURIVOR would be cool, and _REAL WORLD_ would sure as hell sell a lot more DVDs if they’d cut out the digital blurring. I’m surprised that women’s boobs haven’t been more decriminalized on primetime TV, incidentally, since you see butts all the times. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/46 "2005-11-16T06:45:22Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Back To The OP > > Tarzan. Why is the Earl Of Greystoke … wearing a loin cloth? Don’t you know what a jungle’s like? All those thorns, stickers, burrs, mites, fleas, parasites, stinging insects, and creatures great and small that bite. That’s one of the last environments you’d like to go around with your boys totally unprotected. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/47 "2005-11-16T07:22:30Z")
How come no one’s mentioned _Lost_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/48 "2005-11-16T13:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Tarzan. Why is the Earl Of Greystoke cleanshaven and wearing a loin cloth? Actually, IIRC, that’s from the books. He starts naked, like the [great apes who raised him](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtarzan.html), but then he learns that he’s human and he watches the natives, sees that they wear loincloths, and copies them. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/49 "2005-11-16T14:01:49Z")
> [@Stark Raven Mad](#): > > How come no one’s mentioned _Lost_ yet? Because the women are all anorexic? There’s definitely more eye candy for women viewers, however. > [@DocCathode](#): > > The T-1000 mimicked clothing. I thought that kind of made sense. Chameleon ability is kind of negated when everybody points and yells “Look at the naked guy!”. So why does the T-1000 have to beam down from the future stark naked, like Arnold and regular humans? None of it is organic. ---
**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 16, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/50 "2005-11-16T14:30:59Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > No Janet’s been mentioned on this thread, but if you’re referring to Janet Jackson then the answer is no. She had a shield around the nipple, but no pasty or anything else covering it. For the second it could be blurrily seen with a digital playback. And yet it completely destroyed my sexual morality. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/51 "2005-11-16T14:33:47Z")
\*Gilligan’s Island \* would be much better if the non-Mrs. Howell girls weren’t wearing all that heavy clothing all the time. On a semi-related note, while I loved seeing Bailey Quarters’ in one of Johnny Fever’s old t-shirts, I would’ve loved it even more if I could’ve seen Ms. Quarters out of said t-shirt. 😃 ---
**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 16, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/52 "2005-11-16T14:42:20Z")
> [@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’. What about that film where Mel Gibson winds up in a woman’s body? Wouldn’t the first thing any guy would do is find a vibrator and spend a few hours chcking out the distaff side of orgasms? And younger guys who haven’t had that much sex … like the male lead in Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, would probably be pretty darned curious about all the equipment they were suddenly in charge of. There’s be some lookin’, I imagine. A lotta lookin’. Followed by vibrator stuff. Be funny to have the “gal” say after a montage indicating much masturbating. say, “I’ve been at this for hours! What the hell doe it TAKE to get this thing to turn over?” ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/53 "2005-11-16T15:27:18Z")
Movie scene that would have been better with nudity: Sam finds Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol in “Return of the King”. Would have been truer to the books, in which Frodo has been whipped/beaten by the orcs after having been stripped. Boy, I was really looking forward to this scene. I can live with elves at Helm’s Deep, no Bombadil, and all the other changes, but no naked Frodo was a disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/54 "2005-11-16T15:56:08Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > “Hi, this is Wilford Brimley for Liberty Medical…we can help you build a better life…” > _gets on horse_ NOOOOOOOO ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/55 "2005-11-16T15:57:58Z")
Oooooo ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/56 "2005-11-16T16:02:17Z")
Oooooo! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/57 "2005-11-16T16:13:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Every movie where someone transforms shape and miraculously transforms clothing, too. I mean, transforming clothes? Feh. (The Thing nitpick – in Carpenter’s version of **the Thing** it specifically _didn’t_ do clothes. [Kurt Russell as MacReady, talking into tape recorder]“I think when it tranasforms you it tears through your clothes.” All the clothing in The Thing seemed to belong to the “victims”. ---
**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 16, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/58 "2005-11-16T17:08:29Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > \*Gilligan’s Island \* would be much better if the non-Mrs. Howell girls weren’t wearing all that heavy clothing all the time. On a semi-related note, while I loved seeing Bailey Quarters’ in one of Johnny Fever’s old t-shirts, I would’ve loved it even more if I could’ve seen Ms. Quarters out of said t-shirt. 😃 There was an episode where a shifty photographer took some nude pics of the blonde receptionist in the nude as she changed in a dressing room for a photo shoot or something, and the gang worked some kind of scam to get the photos back. Woulda been nice to see those photos. Would have made the episode more believable. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/59 "2005-11-16T20:50:56Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > Because the women are all anorexic? There’s definitely more eye candy for women viewers, however. > > So why does the T-1000 have to beam down from the future stark naked, like Arnold and regular humans? None of it is organic. Because he didn’t know what clothes to mimic. What if the latest fashion was to insert peacock feathers into your nostrils and wear phone cords as belts? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187/60 "2005-11-16T21:18:34Z")
The movie Imortal Beloved really blew a nude scene. Near the end, in a flash back, young Ludwig runs out of his troubled home in the middle of the night, (this to the 4th movement of the 9th symphony) He starts taking off clothing and he jumps into a lake. There he floats and as the water settles you see the reflection of the stars and the boy floating in them as he becomes one with the universe. However, he is wearing pants! You have to be naked to become one with the universe. When Dave Bowman comes back as the giant blue baby the baby was naked. Also Sense and Sensibility need a lot more nudity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-familiar-movie-tv-scenes-would-be-better-with-nudity-and-why/331187.md?page=4)