Nudity in Movies

In light of the recent US release of Y Tu Mama Tambien I thought it might be appropriate to bring up the topic of nudity in movies. I don’t mean in a ultra right wing type of way (Impeach Jack Valente). I mean in the context of good film making. There are pleanty of films where nudity is used as an audience draw ( oh my god, you see that Saved by the Bell girl totally naked). There are also other films, Y Tu Mama…, where you see pleanty of nudity and sensuality but it works as part of the story. I guess my question is, when does the nudity start to distract from the story (this also can happen when you have a paticular celebrity who is naked. i.e. Julie Andrews in SOB{that worked though}). I’m interested to hear everyone’s take.

Updated: August 12, 2002 — 4:14 pm