The 10 most influential nude scenes in movie history - #1 is a must see! (With Pictures)

Most influential nude scenes in movie history - The 1931 film The Divorcee starred glamour girl Norma Shearer in an Oscar-winning performance. She plays an adulterous wife who is seen entering the home of her lover for a sleepover. Not a frame of the illicit couple is shown. Instead the sexual nature of the visit is implied by all the lights going out leaving the house dark at ‘bedtime’. More..

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It seems jarring, perhaps, to think that a great artist would feel compelled to disrobe for a rollicking bedroom romp – but this was her first feature film. It hailed from the same production company that would go on to make Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Theory of Everything. What’s so unusual about this is that the actress in question managed to make her screen debut, naked, without compromising the course of her career. Thompson managed to disrobe for a romcom and still became one of the most well-respected actresses of her generation. At least the scene was played to the tune of a Rossini overture and is, to the extent simulated sex can be, quite witty. 8. Fast Times at Ridgemont High God bless Phoebe Cates. Fast Times is actually a hugely important movie, launching the careers of some of today’s most important actors. Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker and the screenwriter Cameron Crowe. But perhaps the most iconic, lasting image from this movie is those few slow-motion seconds of 19-year-old Phoebe. The actress, of Chinese-Filipino-Russian-Jewish descent, got her 15 seconds of fame, and became the epitome of every high school boy’s fantasy by opening up her red bikini top. It’s barely sexual, really little more than a punchline, and it’s become crystallised as one of the simplest nude scenes of a more innocent time. 7. Unfaithful Diane Lane’s portrayal of an adulterous wife involves getting naked a lot for some steamy love scenes with Olivier Martinez. It was an indication that Hollywood’s view of the acceptable (i.e. marketable) age for nude scenes has stretched beyond the young and ridiculously perfect to the older and ridiculous perfect like Ms. Lane. SEE ALSO: 11 Notorious celebrity sex addicts (With Pictures) When Unfaithful was released in 2002, Lane was 37 – ancient for a female in Hollywood terms. But with personal trainers, organic food and healthier lifestyles, actors like Lane are retaining their breathtaking perfection longer. These are some of the oldest sexy nude scenes in mainstream Hollywood. 6. About Schmidt It’s not one of those nude scenes that many people will rewind and watch over and over, but Kathy Bates au naturel in the hot tub may suggest at least a tiny breach of the movie industry’s obsession with teens and twenty somethings smaller than a Size 4. Could they be reaching out to the vast majority of the real world who resemble Ms. Bates more than they resemble Anne Hathaway, but are still fond of getting naked when called for? Whatever the motivation for this scene, you’ve gotta hand it to a distinguished actor of a certain age parading the whole thing in front of the camera. 5. Coming Home Society’s double, triple and quadruple standards are on full display in this movie which stars Jon Voight as a wheelchair-bound veteran and Jane Fonda as caregiver. The movie could have shown a graphic blood-spattered depiction of his body parts being blown off, which it didn’t. That would have been called ‘powerful’. But showing a sexual encounter between the characters was ‘controversial’. SEE ALSO: WWE wrestlers who are friends in real life - You will be shocked to see this! (With Pictures) The history of cinema is punctuated by references to films that “break taboos”, like this one which deals the sexuality of physically handicapped people. The sex scenes here were significant not because they represented a stroke of genius by the film industry. It was, rather, the shocked reactions which were most telling and significant. 4. Shame It could be said that the shame of nudity has been drilled into the Christian world since the beginning of time. Getting dressed was a big part Adam and Eve’s punishment for using the Tree of Life as a food court. Shame is a harrowing movie with what’s generally acknowledged to be one of the most courageous performances of all time by Michael Fassbender as a sex addict – addict being the key word. Director Steve McQueen makes drug addiction seem more attractive than the horrible, pleasureless universe Fassbender inhabits. An uncomfortable film people went to see not for the nudity, but in spite of it, this exemplified anti-Hollywood nudity. 3. Porky’s It’s hard to believe the Porky’s franchise could ever be accused of being influential, but from this distance it absolutely can. It is what it is, a mindless set of juvenile clichés. It hasn’t aged well, and its datedness has been hurried along as our sexual landscape has changed so much in the digital age. But it was in the original 1982 film Porky’s that the girl’s shower became the epitome of teen raunch. The trope has been used and abused ever since. 2. My Beautiful Launderette Twenty years before Hollywood would carefully portray a gay romance in Brokeback Mountain, the renowned British director Stephen Frears did so explicitly in My Beautiful Launderette. It was a critically acclaimed depiction of a society divided by race, sexuality and class and made a young actor named Daniel Day-Lewis one to watch. The movie did not show very much graphic nudity, however. Rather, Launderette is up here because while the critics loved it, audiences hated it. A survey by the BBC eight years after this movie’s release found that the film’s homosexual kiss caused a majority of the audience to react “with extraordinary vehemence to this extract with many unable to watch or being sickened by what they saw.” If nothing else, this is hugely telling of how far the world of film has come. 1. Basic Instinct In the time it took to uncross her legs, Sharon Stone, at age 34, went from a B-movie Playboy bunny to an A-list celebrity. She would go on to appear in movies with stars like De Niro, Stallone andHackman. SEE ALSO: 13 popular celebrities who love smoking weed (With Pictures) The famous commando leg-crossing scene is an epic moment in screen history, but the rest of her performance as a sensuous femme fatale earned her a Golden Globe nomination as well. It even earned a reference in 2015’s Academy Awards opening song, 23 years later. - TheRichest CLICK HERE to join our BBM Channel for faster updates CLICK HERE to join our BBM Channel for faster updates TOP POSTS YESTERDAY Wife of Boko Haram commander makes shocking revelation about Chibok girls The 15 hottest MTV MVA looks of all time – #1 is a must see! (With Pictures) 7 Differences between a serious relationship and fling – Ladies, you need to know this! 10 Reasons why guys are obsessed with big butt 14 secrets the Obamas’ don’t want you to know (With Pictures) 12 Rich celebs who don’t help their poor siblings (With Pictures) What?? 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