I am fairly sure I heard that movie mentioned much earlier in this thread probably in the pre-zombie part of it.
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RoboCop, and the naked breasts in the co-ed changing room.
Demolition Man, and the topless woman dialing Stallone and getting the wrong number.
Why have people called this a zombie thread? The earliest post I see is 12/12/2019. That’s only two days ago.
Most Incredibly Bothersome Nudity: Oliver Reed and Alan Bates buck nekkid rasslin’ in front of the fireplace in Women in Love.
Terry Jones when he played the organ sometimes.
Isn’t Susperia basically one, big, gratuitous nude thing?
Whose organ?
Must be the Linnea Quigley posts.
Thought of another one; Jobeth Williams in Teachers (1984). She and Nick Nolte played high school teachers and there was a scene where they were arguing in the school corridor. And for no logical reason, Williams decided to take off her clothes.
:smack: Actually - I forgot - no comedies.
I dunno, man…That big huge freakin shlong appearing out of nowhere at the beginning of Bergman’s Persona is, well…I dunno, maaaan…
Really - I really really really really challenge anyone to cinesplain* to me its relevance to the flick.
*Just checked google - not there - copywrong claimed, now, on new word!
Ok sure - I realise that bit was about all that 60’s stream-of-consciousness collage thingie (well, from what I can gather), but it would’ve been nice for a heads up;) so I could wear sturdy protective goggles for it anyway, so, I think I’ll just step away from the whole thing about now.
Maybe because there was gratuitous zombie nudity in Night of the Living Dead?
Otherwise, beats me.
Maybe they were typing ‘bazooms’ and their spell-check took over?
I’ve been out of circulation for a couple of days and missed these posts. Interesting - thank you (genuinely) for the reasoned opposing view.
You know what, I’m going to (mostly) concede on this one. Here’s what I think: we’re talking about “barely legal” in 1971 Britain – and it was, because of that, a controversial film. (and continued to flirt with censorship issues well into this century, it turns out). But when you talk about “gratuitous”, you have to separate out the public perception of the film from the director’s intentions. You’ve made a decent case for Roeg and artistic intent. (Though if I was counsel for the defence, I wouldn’t be calling the jury’s attention to his work on Don’t Look Now, as mentioned upthread. But I’m happy to go with the Scottish verdict: not proven.)
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I haven’t seen that movie in a while, but I’m pretty sure earlier in the movie they were talking about taking risks or something like that and one says “You’d never walk down the hallway naked” or something similar.
Sorry for lack of specifics 
Yes, they did talk about that. I don’t think it makes the actual nudity less gratuitous.
Tropic of Cancer (1970). Granted, this was the period when Hollywood was playing with movie nudity like an Amish kid and alcohol during Rumspringen, and the subject of the movie is Henry Miller, but the scene in question was a running nude woman (can’t remember who), three-quarter frontal shot of just her hips, in slow motion.
It’s a movie. The only reason they said that was because it was in the script. And the only reason they put that line in the script was to give them an excuse for the nude scene.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of how scripts worked.
No, not nudity, but one of the most demeaningly gratuitous shots I’ve ever seen - Sam Peckinpah introduces us to one of the two main characters in Straw Dogs - played by Susan George - walking towards the camera, except the shot is framing only her torso.
Great intro, Sam.
Oh, wait - the 70s.
Right.
People say that. But they often act as though they feel that events in a movie or book or TV show occur spontaneously. They don’t seem to realize that everything they see or hear in a work of fiction was a deliberate decision made by the author. Nothing happens by chance.
But when a bullet misses a character, there are people who will think he got lucky. No, there was no luck involved. The author didn’t want the character to die in this chapter so he wrote that the bullet missed.
And when a character dies of cancer in the final chapter of the book, it’s not because of that mysterious lump he found in the third chapter. The lump didn’t cause the cancer; the cancer caused the lump. When the author decided he was going to have the character get cancer, he wrote in the symptoms.
The line about somebody walking down the halls naked didn’t cause the character to take off her clothes. The choice to have the character take off her clothes caused the line to be in the movie.