Even the most inept of Hollywood producers could tell you that nudity sells – people somewhat unthinkably went out to see Showgirls, and there was a massive response when it was revealed that Demi Moore would shed her clothes for Striptease (what they didn’t tell us was that she’d be a little over-muscular and oddly-shaped)- so as long as studio marketing departments have any kind of influence on the creative decisions of a project, we’re likely to see bare skin.But sometimes, nudity in movies in used in an entirely different way – subtly added for the purposes of realism, or because the film-maker was way too cool to think of anything as piffling as censorship. Either way, those instances of nudity tend to be so brief that film fans could be forgiven for missing them entirely – and when they come from a superstar actor, nobody really wants to miss out on the opportunity for a little licensed voyeurism. We’re all animals when you scratch the surface after all.There are also several famous instances from film history of films that sneak nudity into their films – whether as a form of artistic protest, or to actively titillate the audience and create that magical moment where audience members look at one another aghast,wondering whether what they just saw was really what they thought it was.
This article will celebrate those moments where nudity pops up just briefly enough to snatch your attention away, before disappearing again, and these are the briefest flashes of nudity that made you reach for the pause and rewind buttons. Blink and you’ll miss them….
1. Bruce Willis – Pulp Fiction
Very, very brief. Willis gets out of the shower, dries himself off with a small orange towel and shows the world a glimpse of what lies beneath. Bruce isn’t exactly known for his naked shots, and is more readily available for vest shots and dirty bulging biceps work, so this came as something of a surprise.
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Haha a google search of that Jessica Rabbit picture led me to the funniest extremist Christian paranoid conspiracy site ever….
I think you’ll find thats a full, er, back-al, rather than frontal.
The Mila Kunis one was not actually her, they used a stand-in as she refused.
The size of the whatculture logo blocking out Brad Pitt’s pecker seems extremely generous.
You can see Sigourney Weavers breasts in Ghostbusters in the chair attack scene.
Robin Tunney, who famously plays a special agent on CBS’ “The Mentalist,” has one scene in the film “Open Window” (2006) where she is completely nude.
Melanie Griffith flashing Paul Newman in Nobody’s Fool, get on the ball :)
There’s a blink and you’ll miss it shot of Angelina Jolie’s boobs in Hackers
There’s a whole full out nude, sex scene of Angelina Jolie in “Original SIn” lol
In now and then when the girls take the boys cloths, Devon Sawa crouches right in front of the camera to pick up his underwear and you get a shot up his towel. I’m surprised they would have filmed that low/ not taken it out of the film, due to his age and the pg rating. It does however insight a lot of giggles when the preteen girls catch it during a sleepover
in resident evil, when milla jovovich falls off the examination table at the end of the movie, you can see her bush up her hospital gown.
Hate to break it to up, but the nude picture isn’t actually Mila Kunis. Source: Forgetting Sarah Marshall commentary.
Eva mendes – training day….full frontal but very brief. Try a skill stop on the pause button hahaa
The Fight Club image is the best!
This is journalism?
lol
And your point is Dan?
A young Kiera Knightley flashes a young Desmond Harrington in The Hole (2001):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lmih_keira-knightly-flashes_sexy#.UNOfa28zySo
Nice! But it’s the usual suspects – I remeber the good ol days with the likes of Russ Meyer an Al Adamson when blaxploitation/sexploitation was the fashion back in the 70′s. You don’t get women like that these days – I personally blame it on GM foods an a lack of the right nutrients
This is art! :)
Bruce Willis has shown it all before that also. The Color of Night i think was its name. So didn’t surprise me in Pulp.
yep, Bruce gets frisky in the pool while skinny-dipping.
If I get some cashed up funds by weeks end gonna cruise on over to
my video store… may see most of the films on this page there or not – should go well then I can go hard…!!! (Note: Female flicks only of course)
Young Kate Hudson–Almost Famous. It occurs when she’s flopping onto the lead singer of Stillwater during one of the several party scenes–I forget exactly when.
I wonder if the blink and you miss it bouncing breasts gag from..Airplane, I think it was (never can remember if it was Airplane or Airplane II, offhand)..qualifies for this list. It even surprised the people doing the commentary track on the DVD, as they’d forgotten it was in there. :-)