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00:00It's nice.
00:02Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the cinematic nude scenes
00:07and performances that got people talking or had the most reverberating social repercussions.
00:12Now we're in business.
00:15Number 30. Denise Richards. Wild Things.
00:18There is an ever-evolving discussion surrounding nude scenes.
00:21How they should be shot, how they should be viewed, and whether or not modern cinema necessarily requires them full
00:26stop.
00:27Can I play too? Or is it just for boys?
00:30There's no denying, however, the prurient nature surrounding nude scenes like this one featuring Denise Richards in 1998's Wild Things.
00:36This was still the era of the 90s erotic thriller, after all,
00:40with many actors' nude scenes going viral prior to that term really taking hold within the public zeitgeist.
00:46See, the thing about it is that threesomes rarely work out.
00:49You're out of your mind.
00:50No, instead, it was fans at home that continually rented Wild Things in order to get their fill,
00:55and those same fans whose devotion to the film wound up earning it not one,
01:00not two, but three sequels.
01:02Number 29. Eva Green, Michael Pitt, and Louis Garel.
01:06The Dreamers.
01:06Numerous taboo subjects are touched upon within The Dreamers from Italian neo-realist legend Bernardo Bertolucci.
01:18The film specifically makes it a point to sexualize a relationship between siblings,
01:23while juxtaposing that bit of controversy amid the 1968 Parisian student riots.
01:27The nude scenes of stars Eva Green, Michael Pitt, and Louis Garel aren't exploitative per se,
01:33but they were certainly unbridled and uninhibited.
01:36A powder keg of eroticism laid bare that works due to and not in spite of the characters and their
01:41motivations.
01:42Number 28.
01:43Elizabeth Berkley.
01:44Showgirls.
01:45No actor wants to be typecast, so when it came time for former Saved by the Bell star Elizabeth Berkley
01:51to try breaking out of her television shell, well, she tried being a showgirl.
01:55What kind of classes have you had?
01:57I haven't had classes.
01:59Then what are you doing here?
02:00Berkley joined co-stars Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, and more in a film that wound up making her famous.
02:06Just perhaps not in the way she intended.
02:08Showgirls would go on to become a cult classic to be sure,
02:11but it was due to the frequency of nude scenes and Berkley's enthusiastic coupling with MacLachlan.
02:17Are you nervous?
02:19Don't be.
02:21I'm not.
02:22Not anything remotely associated with story, plot, or character execution.
02:26Number 27.
02:27Harvey Keitel.
02:28Bad Lieutenant.
02:29The modern era of cinema is one where full frontal male nudity doesn't receive the same sort of stigma it
02:34did back in the day.
02:36You being bad girls, huh?
02:38You being bad girls?
02:39Huh?
02:40Even films as recent as the early 90s would receive NC-17 ratings for such creative decisions.
02:45The copious amounts of violence and controlled substances also assisted in Bad Lieutenant receiving this rating for its director, Abel
02:52Ferrara.
02:52The film remains powerful, however, thanks largely to star Harvey Keitel's bold and fearless turn as a reprehensibly unlikable protagonist.
03:00Put in my bed!
03:03I think about it.
03:06There's nothing to think about.
03:07Either you put in my bed,
03:09or you get nothing.
03:10His titular Bad Lieutenant makes every bad decision in the book,
03:14while Keitel bears all in a performance that never worries about modesty or vanity.
03:19Number 26.
03:20Kim Basinger.
03:21Nine and a half weeks.
03:22The phrase,
03:23cult following on video,
03:24could mean multiple things.
03:26It could imply that a film eventually found an audience via word of mouth.
03:29But your business is very risky,
03:31isn't it?
03:35Well, it's...
03:36It's not any riskier than you coming here.
03:40Coming out here where there's no neighbors around.
03:42I mean, we hardly know each other.
03:44Or perhaps,
03:45in the case of Nine and a Half Weeks from director Adrian Line,
03:48fans were renting the VHS from their local video stores
03:51to see Kim Basinger and Mickey Rooney naked.
03:53Not that we're judging anybody for this decision, mind you.
03:55It just speaks to how the film didn't do too well during its theatrical run,
03:59where, you know,
03:59folks actually have to be seen in public watching Nine and a Half Weeks
04:02doing what we presume they went there to do.
04:05You can see your friends in the daytime,
04:07but I just want the nighttime from now on to be...
04:12hours.
04:14The accompanying soundtrack was popular, though,
04:16so perhaps it was the plot that brought fans to Nine and a Half Weeks.
04:20Number 25.
04:21Margot Robbie.
04:22The Wolf of Wall Street.
04:23We could forgive any movie fans for thinking that Margot Robbie's nude scene
04:27in 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street
04:29was included to sell a movie that was already so full of testosterone.
04:32I have an entire line of lingerie.
04:35No camisoles, bustiers, panties.
04:39She designs women's panties, too?
04:41Oh my god.
04:44The actress revealed to the Talking Pictures podcast
04:47about how it was actually her idea to film the scene in this fashion.
04:50This helped make the seduction scene between Robbie's character
04:53and Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort feel authentic,
04:56even if the actress also allegedly required just a wee bit of liquid courage
05:00when it came time for the cameras to roll.
05:01And it wasn't just about the sex, either.
05:04Naomi and I got along.
05:05Number 24.
05:06Bo Derek.
05:0710.
05:08Existing as a sex icon can frequently become a double-edged sword for actors
05:12when it comes to being cast for meatier, more demanding roles.
05:15It's really unbelievable, isn't it?
05:17Yeah, I suppose it is.
05:19Thankfully for Bo Derek,
05:20her husband John would direct no less than four films,
05:23most of which served to underline John Derek's romantic devotion to his wife.
05:2710 was not one of those films,
05:29but it was still a star-making turn for Bo,
05:31who stole the show from co-star Dudley Moore and director Blake Edwards.
05:35Because I thought you were something different.
05:38Something special.
05:40I am.
05:41As far as I'm concerned, I'm very special.
05:43Bo Derek's time since clothing in 10 isn't actually all that lecherous or poorly conceived,
05:48but was just enough to make her an it-girl for the late 70s,
05:51the 80s, and pretty much forever.
05:53Number 23.
05:54Richard Gere.
05:55American Gigolo.
05:56We sort of take for granted how much nudity was required
06:00for background or character actors who performed in either genre or exploitation pictures back in the day.
06:06Baby, baby, this is a two-hour gig.
06:08Plus the drive.
06:09Plus the drive.
06:115C, straight in and out drive.
06:13Nothing fancy.
06:13Come on, let me feel.
06:15This helps lay down some context for just how notable American Gigolo was back in 1980
06:20for its inclusion of star Richard Gere's full frontal nude scenes.
06:24Granted, Gere's character being the titular Gigolo
06:26sort of makes our minds as audience members connect the proverbial dots here,
06:30yet fans were still sort of shocked to see such boldness at this stage in the cinematic game.
06:35Writer-director Paul Schrader was no stranger to controversy, of course,
06:38but American Gigolo remains an important example of mainstream film
06:42slowly moving towards accepting male nudity at the multiplex.
06:45You never did anything for me.
06:48I never did anything for you.
06:50What are you talking about?
06:52I'm your number one boy.
06:53And you fight me every turn.
06:55Number 22.
06:56Halle Berry.
06:57Swordfish.
06:58Isn't it crazy how rumors spread?
06:59There's actually no truth to the tale that states Halle Berry was paid an extra $500,000
07:04to doff her top for the 2001 movie Swordfish.
07:07Stan, if you're going to see Halle, I suggest you re-evaluate the way you look.
07:14Just a thought.
07:16Just a thought.
07:17The actress has gone on record for outlets such as The Guardian that the story was made up,
07:21yet somehow took off in service to publicizing the frankly ridiculous movie.
07:26Berry instead maintained that she saw the scene as a personal challenge,
07:29which certainly makes more sense,
07:30given the actress's other more emotionally powerful nude scene from Monsters Ball released that same year.
07:38Number 21.
07:39Nicole Kidman.
07:40Eyes Wide Shut.
07:42When was the last time you can remember a movie making news headlines due to its sexual content?
07:46Perhaps the Fifty Shades series?
07:48Or perhaps more recently with Wuthering Heights?
07:50Director Stanley Kubrick certainly found himself within the cultural crosshairs back in 1999 with Eyes Wide Shut.
07:56Alice, look at you.
07:57God, you're absolutely stunning.
07:59And I don't say that to all the women, do I not?
08:02Yes, he does.
08:03This was the film, after all, that was digitally censored upon its initial release,
08:07although fans can now view Kubrick's full uncut vision at home.
08:11This Eyes Wide Shut includes nudity from star Nicole Kidman,
08:14whose character's marriage is held under intense scrutiny throughout the film's running time.
08:17The important thing is, we're awake now, and hopefully for a long time to come.
08:32This helps make the nudity here feel less salacious and more natural, even depressing at times.
08:38Number 20.
08:38Puppets.
08:39Team America World Police.
08:48Does it really matter that Team America World Police actually wasn't the first film to showcase intimate puppet action?
08:53Not really, because the other one we can think of is an obscure 1976 adult film titled Let My Puppets
08:59Come.
08:59That leaves this feature from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to do a lot of the heavy
09:04lifting
09:04with regard to edge-pushing on-screen puppet nudity and sensuality.
09:08Lisa, you're the most amazing person I've ever met.
09:12It's only been a short time, but I think that I'm completely in love-
09:16Let's not talk.
09:18The film as a whole does a great job at playing things intentionally straight,
09:22while also knowing when to go all in on the silliness.
09:25It's an execution that essentially walked so 2018's The Happy Time Murders could run.
09:30I have something for that.
09:33Hey, hey, hey, what's gotten into you?
09:36I'm hoping you-
09:37Number 19, Oliver Reed and Alan Bates, Women in Love.
09:41The Italians vulgarly say it stands for the female part, the fig fruit, the fissure, the yoni.
09:48There's just something about the music of Georges Delarue and Michael Garrett
09:51that helps make this infamous scene from 1969's Women in Love just a little uneasy.
09:56The swelling orchestra seems to blend in with Oliver Reed and Alan Bates' nude wrestling match,
10:01as both men jockey for position.
10:02I don't care how it is as long as I feel that.
10:06Fulfilled?
10:08Yes, I suppose it could be fulfilled.
10:10Themes of fraternal love are mixed with notions of sex as both men tussle in front of a roaring fire.
10:15The ending leaves more questions than answers,
10:18as Bates brings up a possibility of the pair swearing undying love,
10:21a proposition of which Reed seems unsure.
10:24It is boundary-pushing stuff, particularly for 1969,
10:27a well-shot juxtaposition of personal close-ups and voyeuristic long shots from the camera.
10:32What'd you like about it?
10:36Hmm.
10:39Number 18.
10:40Everyone.
10:41Cannibal Holocaust.
10:43I wonder who the real cannibals are.
10:47This is the famous line uttered by Robert Kerman during the finale of 1980's Cannibal Holocaust,
10:52an infamous exploitation movie with a disturbing legacy of carnage.
10:56There's also an excessive amount of nudity within the film,
10:59although here it's not exactly designed for titillation.
11:02Instead, the movie combines a travelogue-styled amount of nature footage
11:06alongside legitimate Amazonian tribespeople hired as actors.
11:09Cannibal Holocaust helped make grim history as an innovator of the found-footage jar of filmmaking,
11:14while the unsimulated animal deaths and graphic on-screen violence were so controversial
11:18that it got the film banned in multiple countries.
11:21The director, Ruggero Deodato, was even accused of making a snuff film,
11:25to the point where he was required to prove his actors were still alive.
11:29I'm going to try to scare him away with this!
11:31I hope it works!
11:34Number 17.
11:36The Shower Girls.
11:37Porky's.
11:43Oh, God!
11:44The history of the sex comedy dates back decades,
11:47but there was one film that did a lot of heavy lifting when it came to codifying certain tropes.
11:51Porky's was a smash hit when it first hit screens back in 1981,
11:55making $160 million.
11:58VCRs weren't exactly commonplace within the average home yet,
12:01so lascivious movie fans still had to sojourn to a theater to take in scantily clad flesh.
12:05Porky's, to its credit, delivered everything that it promised,
12:08from future star Kim Cattrall's energetic sex scene,
12:11to the girls that are spied on during their shower.
12:18It's a very un-PC movie that would probably not get made today,
12:22but a lot of people were taking notes and following in its footsteps.
12:25What, is there an echo here?
12:28Well, they're for you.
12:29For me, what am I going to do with them?
12:30Well, uh, we thought you'd like to wear one today.
12:34Number 16.
12:36Lena Niemann and Börja Allstedt.
12:38I Am Curious Yellow.
12:46The release of I Am Curious Yellow in the United States
12:49resulted in waves of both censorship and controversy.
12:52This was thanks to the Swedish film's unfettered approach to displaying human sexuality on screen,
12:57during an era when the restrictive Hollywood haze code was finally being lifted.
13:01Leads Lena Niemann and Börja Allstedt show it all on screen,
13:04with one of the debates during this time being whether or not I Am Curious Yellow was pornographic.
13:09The phrase, I know it when I see it,
13:11may have been popularized by a Supreme Court justice three years earlier,
13:14but Niemann and Allstedt's nude scenes made a lot of people want to see
13:17exactly what all the hype was about with I Am Curious Yellow.
13:27Number 15.
13:28Jane Birkin.
13:29Blow Up.
13:30Couldn't you give us just a couple of minutes?
13:33A couple of minutes?
13:34I haven't even got a couple of minutes to have my appendix out.
13:37This movie wasn't the first to display pubic hair on screen,
13:40but it did make waves for doing so within the confines of a major commercially viable picture.
13:45Michelangelo Antonioni was considered a hero of Italian neorealism,
13:49yet Blow Up could also appeal to the non-arthouse crowd,
13:52thanks to its psychological murder mystery.
13:54This was also the on-screen debut of It Girl Jane Birkin,
13:57the singer and actress who inspired The Birkin Bag,
14:00while also serving as a muse for artists like Serge Gainsbourg.
14:07It was Birkin's brief flash of pubic hair within Blow Up
14:10that made some in the audience do a double take,
14:13just to make sure they didn't miss anything.
14:15Right, let's move out.
14:17But you haven't taken any photos.
14:19No, I'm too whacked.
14:21That's your own fault.
14:23Number 14.
14:24Hedy Lamarr.
14:25Ecstasy.
14:32Sometimes it takes years or even decades for certain films to be appreciated
14:37as formative turning points within a medium.
14:39Hedy Lamarr's appearance in the 1933 film Ecstasy
14:42made history with its close-up scenes of nudity.
14:44Perhaps of more significant importance, however,
14:47is the depiction of Lamarr as enjoying sexual pleasure,
14:50a scene that helped cinema break free,
14:52at least a little, from the male gaze.
14:54Further leaps forward would, of course, be required,
14:56but Lamarr's performance in Ecstasy
14:58is largely seen today by critics
15:00as incredibly forward-thinking for its era.
15:06Number 13.
15:19It speaks volumes that the self-professed monster kid Guillermo del Toro
15:24felt it fit to include a not-so-subtle reference
15:26to Universal's Gill Man as his romantic lead in 2017's The Shape of Water.
15:30Here, it's the humans that feel monstrous,
15:32while our creature that's not from the Black Lagoon
15:35finds a partner in The Shape of co-star Sally Hawkins.
15:47Del Toro's adoration of monsters,
15:50their misunderstanding, and their plight
15:51ties into the love scene that's shot for the picture.
15:54It's a beautiful sequence within a film
15:56that very often also dwells within the unfortunate prevalence of human cruelty.
16:07Number 12.
16:08Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros, and Uma Thurman
16:11Henry and June
16:12My life.
16:14Sometimes I think I need something else.
16:17An older man, a man stronger than I am.
16:21You like to make me suffer.
16:23Somebody had to be first.
16:24Henry and June from 1990
16:26was the first film to be saddled with a brand new rating
16:29from the Motion Picture Association of America,
16:31an NC-17.
16:33This was thanks primarily to the film's heavy erotic nature,
16:36since it was loosely based upon the writings of Anais Min.
16:39The latter is considered to be groundbreaking
16:41when it comes to female-focused erotica.
16:43He's a man life intoxicates.
16:46He's like me.
16:48But he doesn't know it yet.
16:50While the film version featured explicit nudity
16:52from its stars Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, and Fred Ward.
16:56This set the stage for future NC-17 films
16:58to push for further acceptance
17:00within the very complicated world of movie ratings and politics.
17:03We should go away somewhere together
17:07where there's lots of snow.
17:10Number 11.
17:11Anne Bancroft, The Graduate
17:12Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
17:17The new Hollywood movement of the 1960s and 70s
17:20saw a space where commercially successful films
17:22also appealed to the intellectual side of a growing audience.
17:25The Graduate was one of the most important examples from this era.
17:34Ben, what are you doing?
17:35Although the famous bit of nudity from co-star Anne Bancroft
17:38was actually achieved by utilizing a body double.
17:41This takes absolutely nothing away from the film's impact, however.
17:44Particularly how The Graduate examines its lead,
17:47Benjamin Braddock, and his feelings of listlessness.
17:50Ben's brief affair with Mrs. Robinson
17:51ultimately leaves him unfulfilled.
17:53But the scene went on to help define
17:55not only the marketing of The Graduate,
17:57but also a growing public desire
17:59for counterculture voices in cinema.
18:01Let me out.
18:04Did you understand what I said?
18:05Yes, yes, let me out.
18:06Number 10.
18:07Kate Winslet, Titanic.
18:09The last thing I need
18:10is another picture of me looking like a porcelain doll.
18:17As a paying customer.
18:19Kate Winslet has gone on the record
18:20stating that the aftermath of this nude scene
18:22for 1997's Titanic
18:24was personally very difficult for her.
18:26The actress received a lot of media attention
18:28for the sequence where she poses nude
18:30during a portrait session
18:31with her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.
18:33Titanic is seen today
18:34as one of the most watched
18:35and most owned movies of all time,
18:38making Winslet's nude scene
18:39one of the most viewed in modern memory.
18:41So serious.
18:45The sequence remains artistically shot
18:47and without any of the prurient
18:49or exploitable elements
18:50often associated with these types of scenes.
18:52It was the most erotic moment of my life.
19:00Up until then, at least.
19:02Number 9.
19:03Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
19:05Hey, you got here fast.
19:07Segel truly bears it all with the scene
19:10in more ways than one.
19:11This famous moment from Forgetting Sarah Marshall
19:13is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.
19:16After confidently strutting in
19:17to shake his snake at his girlfriend,
19:19Segel's character is faced with an unexpected breakup,
19:21as is the thrust of the rest of the film.
19:23I've been feeling for a long time
19:27that we've been growing apart
19:28and we're leading different lives.
19:33The nudity in this scene
19:34is not only extremely bold and comedically acted,
19:37but it's also based on a real experience
19:39from Segel's own life.
19:40With that in mind,
19:41it's hard to imagine a more vulnerable performance.
19:44It is no surprise that this nude scene
19:46has been remembered so vividly since its release.
19:49But maybe if we just held each other or something,
19:51you would remember what it's like to be with me.
19:53No.
19:54Number 8.
19:54Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan.
19:56Shame.
19:57Morning.
19:59Nice earring.
20:00Hot date.
20:02It's a question as old as the acting profession itself.
20:06Is this nudity essential to the plot?
20:08Well, this definitely is the case
20:10with regards to 2011's Shame,
20:12and it stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan.
20:14The topic of sex obsession
20:16is one that's laid bare within the film.
20:18Shame earned an NC-17 rating
20:20thanks to its frank and explicit nudity
20:22from both actors,
20:23with Fassbender's story being particularly compelling.
20:27Try not talking.
20:28Try just listening.
20:30Or thinking.
20:31For change.
20:33The sex act isn't glamorized here,
20:35but instead taken from the perspective
20:37of a person without control.
20:39Shame, as a result,
20:40utilizes nudity as a narrative construct,
20:42and does so in a remarkably effective manner.
20:45I'm sorry.
20:48You're always sorry.
20:51Number 7.
20:52Animated Animals.
20:53Fritz the Cat.
20:54Hey, man.
20:56The poster just sorta says it all.
20:591972's Fritz the Cat proudly proclaimed
21:01that it wasn't rated X for nothing, baby.
21:03This came down to Fritz the Cat
21:04being the first animated film
21:06to be saddled with this rating,
21:07and for very good reason.
21:09I know of a place where we can be alone
21:10to join our souls in sacred truth.
21:15Hey!
21:16Sausage Party from 2016
21:18was not the first bit of animation
21:19with explicit content to its name,
21:21since Fritz goes all the way
21:23within its satire of youth culture
21:24during the 1970s.
21:26Do you hear anything, Ralph?
21:28It sounds like a bunch of degenerates in there.
21:32The combination of political commentary,
21:34social caricature,
21:35and explicit animal nudity
21:36was par for the course
21:37for director Ralph Bakshi.
21:39Who made a career out of transgression.
21:41Fritz the Cat is definitely not for kids,
21:43but those interested in outsider cinema
21:45are highly encouraged to seek this one out.
21:47Number 6.
21:48Shannon Elizabeth.
21:49American Pie.
21:50Jim?
21:51There's a, uh,
21:53a young lady here to see you.
21:55Hey, Nadia.
21:56Hi, James.
21:57Ready to study?
21:57Oh, he's always ready to study.
21:59He's a real bookworm, this kid.
22:00This coming-of-age sex comedy
22:01largely riffs upon tropes
22:03laid down by films
22:04such as Porky's decades prior.
22:05Several scenes had everyone talking
22:07in 1999,
22:09including Shannon Elizabeth's.
22:10When exchange student Nadia
22:11comes to Jim's house to study,
22:13he sets up a webcam
22:14so that he and his friends
22:15can spy on her undressing.
22:16Did I miss anything?
22:18No.
22:19You were just in time.
22:20However,
22:21he accidentally shares the livestream
22:23with the entire school.
22:24Nadia soon strips down
22:26and becomes preoccupied.
22:28Let's be honest,
22:29this scene has not aged well.
22:31Jim is called out,
22:32but only because he gets,
22:33um,
22:34overly excited.
22:35What happened?
22:36What did he do?
22:38He blew it.
22:40I guess I'll be going now.
22:42Nadia is humiliated
22:43and forced to leave the country,
22:45but somehow she and Jim
22:46have become buds by the end?
22:48In a way,
22:48we guess this scene
22:49still has people talking.
22:51Chickety-China,
22:52the Chinese chicken.
22:53You have a drumstick
22:54and your brain stops sticking.
22:55Watching X-Files
22:56with no lights on.
22:57Number 5.
22:58Mark Wahlberg,
22:59Boogie Nights.
23:00May I see it?
23:01Really?
23:02Please.
23:05Did you know
23:06you're everything I prayed for?
23:09Did you know?
23:10Thank you, Eddie.
23:12Male and female nudity
23:13is commonplace
23:14on streaming services
23:15like Netflix,
23:15but this wasn't always the case.
23:17This is what makes
23:18Mark Wahlberg seen
23:19at the climax
23:19of Boogie Nights
23:20so notable.
23:21Let's forget the other nude scenes
23:22from actors like Heather Graham
23:24or Julianne Moore
23:24for a moment.
23:25The reveal of Wahlberg's
23:26prosthetic manhood
23:27at the end of Boogie Nights
23:28was shocking for some viewers.
23:30Director Paul Thomas Anderson
23:31riffed upon real personalities
23:33of the adult industry
23:34for this film
23:34and even cast a few as well.
23:36The Wahlberg reveal here
23:37is a tribute
23:38to troubled adult icon
23:39John Holmes,
23:40yet the execution
23:41is far from glamorous.
23:42I'm Brock Landers,
23:45so I'm gonna be nice.
23:49So I'm gonna be nice.
23:51Number four,
23:52PJ Souls,
23:53Halloween.
23:54Okay,
23:55later.
23:56Have a good time.
23:57We definitely will.
24:00Nudity was nothing new
24:01within the world
24:02of 70s horror.
24:03That said,
24:04the nudity of PJ Souls
24:05in John Carpenter's Halloween
24:06served as something
24:07of a transitional piece.
24:09Souls' sex scene
24:10with her boyfriend
24:10is presented
24:11in a fairly natural way
24:12and doesn't demonize
24:13her character.
24:14Yet the sequence
24:14is an early example
24:16of sexually active
24:17female characters
24:18becoming murder victims
24:19in slasher films.
24:20I'll be right back.
24:21Don't get dressed.
24:24Those films would eschew
24:25the character development
24:26of Halloween
24:27or the earlier
24:27Black Christmas
24:28and codify
24:29the final girl tropes.
24:30More and more,
24:31only the virginal females
24:32would be allowed to live,
24:33while the sexually active
24:35PJ Souls' of the world
24:36would be condemned
24:37to horrible deaths.
24:38Any of you all right?
24:59Home video boomed
25:01during the 1980s,
25:02which made it
25:02a perfect time
25:03for VHS copies
25:04of Fast Times
25:05at Ridgemont High
25:05to fly off store shelves.
25:07This was thanks
25:08not only to
25:08Amy Heckerling's
25:09respectful treatment
25:10of teen characters
25:11in a high school setting,
25:12but also one
25:13particularly iconic
25:14nude scene.
25:15Phoebe Cates'
25:15sequence at the pool
25:16is perhaps one
25:17of the most rewound
25:18scenes from the
25:18home video era,
25:19although the entire
25:20thing is a bit
25:21of a bait and switch.
25:22On the one hand,
25:23the front-loading
25:24of Cates' nudity
25:25is sure to evoke
25:25titillation within
25:26its audience.
25:27However,
25:28the back end
25:28takes the wind
25:29out of the scene's
25:30sales via Judge
25:30Reinhold's Brad
25:31and his massive
25:32embarrassment.
25:33Can anybody
25:34f***ing knock anymore?
25:35Number 2.
25:36Diego Luna
25:37and Gael Garcia Bernal
25:43There's a very fluid
25:45sexuality at play
25:46in
25:46This story of an
25:48adult woman
25:48on a road trip
25:49with two teenage boys
25:50indulges in every
25:51sort of coupling
25:52that equation
25:52can conjure up.
25:53This includes one
25:54between Diego Luna
25:55and Gael Garcia Bernal
25:57near the end of the film.
25:58Gay sex scenes
25:59were still tiptoeing
26:00into the mainstream
26:00back during the early
26:01millennium,
26:02as evidenced by the
26:03media attention paid
26:04to films like
26:04Brokeback Mountain.
26:05Luna and Bernal's scene
26:07remains notable
26:07for other reasons,
26:08however,
26:09including their young
26:10age and full frontal
26:11nudity.
26:12Y Tu Mama Tambien
26:12is more than just
26:13a coming-of-age story,
26:14however,
26:15and sets up
26:15each sex scene
26:16sensibly within
26:17the film's narrative.
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27:01Number 1.
27:02Sharon Stone.
27:03Basic Instinct.
27:04Would you tell us the
27:04nature of your relationship
27:05with Mr. Boz?
27:07I had sex with him
27:08for about a year and a half.
27:11I liked having sex with him.
27:14He wasn't afraid of
27:15experimenting.
27:16It's one of the most
27:17famous bits of on-screen
27:18nudity from the 1990s,
27:20as well as another
27:21frequently rewound moment
27:22from the halcyon years
27:23of VHS.
27:24However, the interrogation
27:25scene from Basic Instinct
27:26also serves as an
27:28interesting time capsule
27:29with regard to consent,
27:30regret, and the
27:31business of filmmaking.
27:32I don't make any rules,
27:33Nick.
27:34I go with the flow.
27:36Sharon Stone's role
27:37in this film helped
27:38launch her into the
27:38A-list stratosphere,
27:40but the actress has come
27:41out in more recent years
27:42claiming that she didn't
27:43realize the scene
27:43would be so explicit.
27:44She also maintained
27:46that director Paul Verhoeven
27:47didn't show her the
27:48scene's final cut.
27:49Verhoeven, for his part,
27:50told CinemaBlend that
27:51there was, quote,
27:52no way he could have
27:53filmed the scene without
27:53Stone knowing his
27:54intentions.
27:55It's nice.
28:03What was the first nude
28:05movie scene you ever saw?
28:06Share your story down
28:07in the comments.
28:07It's nice.
28:09It's nice.
28:09It's nice.
28:13It's nice.
28:14It's nice.
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