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Nude scenes in Lay the Favorite
In the movie Knocked Up, the characters are starting a website that documents all of the great nude scenes in movies. Alas, I simply cannot get knocked up, and I assure you it’s not for a lack of trying! Seeing as how Knocked Up is therefore ENTIRELY fictitious, I figured I’d bring some reality by way of a list of my favorite nude scenes in movies and TV.
Wanna Have Six With Me? Our 6 Favorite Nude Scenes from Film & TV
Nude scenes have appeared in feature-length narrative movies since the 1910s, and the best nude scenes deserve to be considered alongside the fine arts.
That line from Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” sums up a lot of feelings people seem to have about nudity in film. The history of painting and sculpture is full of nude portraiture, which is regularly and comfortably classified as art. But the nude scene in movies is rarely discussed alongside a Canova marble statue or Manet’s “Olympia.” Movies blur the boundaries between “real life” and artistic indirection so thoroughly that people discuss nude scenes in movies as practically everything but art. It’s “content” that deserves an “advisory,” or something akin to “porn,” however the Supreme Court is classifying that these days.
