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2. Straw Dogs - Dustin Hoffman's Bold Way To Raise An Eyebrow

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What's one way to generate a shocked look of disgusted bewilderment? Why, if you're Dustin Hoffman, you simply get your bo**ocks out.

Years before Michael Madsen did it, that was exactly what Hoffman did on the set of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.

This 1971 effort is one of the most brutal films of its time, with the picture featuring several scenes of intense violence and rape. Away from what was seen by audiences, though, one of the most shocking moments saw Hoffman remove his trousers as his David Sumner enters his new local pub.

If you've not seen Straw Dogs, it sees American mathematician Sumner and his wife Amy moving to her Cornish hometown. A very close-knit, closeminded town, the locals don't take all that kindly to one of their own settling down with an American - and things soon turn extremely nasty as the film plays out.

During the movie's opening is when Hoffman went to eyebrow-raising lengths for the scene in which he walks into the town's pub for the first time. Here, a particularly tipsy local was meant to be shocked by seeing an outsider step into their favourite boozing hole.

To get the required shocked reaction, Hoffman entered the pub completely naked from the waist down.

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