While they may not have featured full nudity, The “Sigourney Weaver in her underwear” scenes in the first two Alien movies were completely gratuitous. Quite welcome and pleasing, but gratuitous nonetheless.
Melanie exposes her chest in one scene, but that’s another actress at the poker table. She and Bruce Willis are losing at strip poker or something like that. That scene isn’t totally gratuitous in the context of the plot at that point. I forget all the details around Melanie’s scene, she’s teasing Paul Newman at that point.
Melanie Griffith was in Nobody’s Fool and did have a brief nude scene. But in the scene you’re describing the actress who’s nude is Shannah Laumeister.
Ah, didn’t remember that, maybe I should watch it again.
Theron had an equally gratuitous scene in the remake of The Italian Job. She wasn’t nude but they had her in a scene where she was practicing her lock picking skills. And for some reason she was doing so in black lingerie.
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There’s a scene like that in the Paul Newman film “Nobody’s Fool.” Haven’t seen it in a long time, but I recall a scene in which Melanie Griffith is losing at strip poker and Pruitt Taylor Vince, who plays Newman’s mentally challenged buddy, can’t stop looking at her tits. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always liked tits, and I saw the film when it was released (back when I liked tits even more, haha), but even then it struck me as a pointless scene.[/QU
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It’s the same in the original novel. For whatever that’s worth.
Yes, but they were done discretely. My point is that nobody wants to make a film for an adult audience that gets a G rating, and this could easily have gotten one.
I think children would enjoy Sullivan’s melodies (I know I did as a child.)
A G or PG rating has often been the Kiss of Death to films. Carroll Ballard gave up making films after Duma was cursed with one and failed at the box office.
I agree, I don’t think that could be called “gratutious”. I’ve never seen the movie, but I read the book in middle school, and that scene is a pretty important bit of character development. The girl Mary, and her brother Peter, are a pair of middle-class, respectable Anglo-Australians who wind up stuck in the outback (plane crash, maybe?). They’re rescued by an Aborigine boy, and part of the story is the conflict between the girl’s sense of propriety and the Aboriginal boy’s culture - she’s shocked by his nudity, for example.
In the book, Peter brings a koala to his sister to hold, and its claws tear holes in her by-then threadbare dress. Rather than put down the koala, she shrugs and steps out of her dress. The scene emphasizes that she’s coming to accept that her values and cultural assumptions are out of place in the outback. It also shows her being to recognize the beauty and uniqueness of the Australian landscape.
So at least in the book, her nudity is integral to the plot. I assume the filmmakers were trying to convey the same message.
One of the great continuity errors in movie history was in The Bonfire of the Vanities. The movie shot all its outdoor scenes in New York City, and then production moved to a studio in Hollywood to shoot the indoor scenes. The cast had a couple weeks off while crew and equipment were moved. During the break, Melanie Griffith got breast implants.
Not strictly nudity, but there’s also the running about the woods having a piss sequence.
In “Adaptation”, Nicholas Cage is on a date with Judy Greer. She unbuttons her blouse in a seductive manner and it’s obvious that she is getting undressed. Then, her boobs are shown for less than a quarter of a second when the scene shifts back to Cage, who was fantasizing the whole ordeal. The actual footage of her breasts were not necessary for the plot.
The first one that comes to mind is a very brief scene in the excellent “Life As a House” in which Mary Steenburgen suddenly shows everything after an earlier scene in which they clearly went to great links to avoid showing anything of Jena Malone.
It’s been a while, but doesn’t the girlfirend’s nudity at least provide a pretty good gag when Jesus’s mom (Terry Jones) is dumbfoundedly staring, agog, at her while the former is having some kind of tantrum?
[prude] The nudity, and the sex overall, in the otherwise sublime, transcendant Space is the Place - not for this upstanding citizen. [/prude]
One of the most pretentious things that I’ve ever had to sit through - Denis Arcand’s Decline of the American Empire - had a scene where pretentious sauna user undoes her towel briefly.
In Melvin and Howard a woman removes her dress in a strip club as she quits her job. She’s wearing nothing underneath. My recollection may not be correct but I believe that was Mary Steenburgen also.
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Theron was naked in just about every film she made in the first decade or so of her career. It was pretty much her thing.
Edie McClurg was in that scene. She was a bit older than the other girls and realized that the camerman was doing a slo-mo shot. So, she deliberately shook her hair as the camera panned by her. She got a great shot with that.
I’ll never forget Javier Bardem’s naked bullfight in Jamon Jamon.
I also remember serious French films of a certain era would always insert a random scene of the lead actress bathing. French women keep scrupulously clean breasts, you know.
3 pages in, and nobody mentioned the coed shower scene from Starship Troopers? Or any of the other boobs in that movie?