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The effect nude movie scenes had on the 80's generation.
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When growing up in the 80's it was quite difficult to view a cheeky bit of nudity. You couldn't press a button like nowadays, and voilà, instant boobs and bush, and even willies. Nude movie scenes were quite often all that the young people of the 80's had. So a good nude scene tended to stick in the mind.
Because the search for nudity was such a struggle, some of these scenes are viewed with great fondness. Even with the proliferation of ways to view nudity these days, a good 80's nude seem, even though often very tame, sets the heart a flutter.
I can remember a few myself.
Porkies - The peeping Tom shower scene.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Phoebe Cates in slow motion.
The Return of the Living Dead - Linnea Quigley running round in the rain in a graveyard.
10 & Bolero - Bo derek, enough said.
Animal House - john Belushi up a ladder.
I'm sure there's many more.
Should i be looking back at these scenes with fondness or should i feel shame/
Because the search for nudity was such a struggle, some of these scenes are viewed with great fondness. Even with the proliferation of ways to view nudity these days, a good 80's nude seem, even though often very tame, sets the heart a flutter.
I can remember a few myself.
Porkies - The peeping Tom shower scene.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Phoebe Cates in slow motion.
The Return of the Living Dead - Linnea Quigley running round in the rain in a graveyard.
10 & Bolero - Bo derek, enough said.
Animal House - john Belushi up a ladder.
I'm sure there's many more.
Should i be looking back at these scenes with fondness or should i feel shame/
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That's why certain telly guides came in handy: "Warning: this programme contains nudity" Ah ha, cheers for that !
I vaguely remember the Channel 4 (?) red triangle.
^this^
However if you had Analouge Sky in the 80s a whole new world opened up. On German channels RTL and Sat 1 ;-)
Ahh those were the days, when Mickey Rourke was genuine hotty mctotty
LOL yes. Though i saw them in the 90's late at night on TV.
"In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything Goes".
As for the films I guess most nudity was in the Friday The 13th films
mr gas fitter - whatever his name was - was referring to mae west i think ....... loadsa innuendo but no nudity. well, very little. the best nudity is still on radio ......
Betty Blue, what a beautiful film.
Tom Cruise in All The Right Moves.
Jean Claude Van Damme's ass in pretty much any of his films.
I'm not being funny but I find that kind of strange. Maybe that's because I wasn't a teenager in the 80's... But still, that's a bit of an odd thing to have a fondness for IMHO.
Isn't that the kind of thing that's taken the piss out of in movies "let's build a website with a catalogue of movie nude scenes lolz"?
I can't listen to Vivaldi's Four Seasons without thinking of all those bare boobs in Dennis Potter's Casanova.
Even today warnings usually indicate a programme is worth watching.
Announcer: "This programme contains violence, nudity, bad language and scenes some viewers may find offensive".
Me: "EXCELLENT!!"
Ah yes, luckily I had the film on CAV Laserdisc with near perfect still and frame advance at the time.
Didn't she have a body double in that film?
Argument still rages over that one. She claims she didn't have an arse-double, but everyone else says she did.