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Melanie Griffith Under Age Nudity?

posted 15 years ago by WaltDinLV
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IMDB reports Melanie Griffith was born in 1957. It also says that this movie was filmed in 1973. That puts Melanie Griffith at 16, maybe 17 years old.

Yet, she is very naked in this movie. I'm not sure that's alright?

I'm guessing that Melanie Griffith, or the people that put the date in IMDB, have fudged a little bit, to make her appear younger. You know, some women have issues with age (and men, too).

That being said, this was a very good movie, and the nudity definitely added to the likeability. Susan Clark and Jennifer Warren were both topless, in addition to Melanie Griffith being naked all the way around.

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[–] sgraf_x 15 years ago

I was thinking the same thing, lol. I mean like u said she could have been older but she looked too young to be getting gratuitously naked in a movie. So if this was filmed in 1973 and she was sixteen...is that even legal!? WTF!? Great parents she must have had huh?

She did look really good though...with her clothes on of course. ;-)

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[–] Norm_uk 15 years ago

I honestly think we're getting more prudish and uptight about our own bodies as we advance instead of less prudish.

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[–] Zando777 13 years ago

As in moral? Yeah. We used to let people bang 9 year-olds.

[–] Royalcourtier 9 years ago

"We"? No. Americans certainly, despite their morals rapidly declining in all other respects. Non sexual nudity of children used to be commonplace and unremarked. It is only since America decided that nudity=sex that there has been a problem.

[–] emncaity 9 years ago

I believe the "here's another way 'America' sucks, according to yet another stereotypical lecturing Europhile or Euro" forum is at another URL. Feel free to drop in there.

[–] GuyOnTheLeft 9 years ago

Ha, another fun feature of these boards. Well played!

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[–] emncaity 9 years ago

thankya, thankyaverramush...

I swear, that stuff just gets sooo tiresome. It comes as a great shock to everybody but an actual adult that there are both smart and stupid people in every culture, every nation, and every demographic. Really, all the generalizing does is to let whoever vomited it up avoid any discussion on the actual substance of the matter. Irritating.

[–] jnathan 9 years ago

Some people are so ignorant, there is no such thing as underage nudity! You have to be 18 to be in a porn film where people are having sex, but you can be naked on film at ANY age. Sex and nudity are NOT the same thing people!

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[–] bill7576c 15 years ago

You just need written consent from the parents if you're underage, so it's really not illegal or anything.

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[–] WaltDinLV 15 years ago

@bill7576c:
Nice Megan Fox reference. There's another young lady, although she's kinda prudish since her clothes haven't come off ... yet. Guess maybe when her career goes downhill, when no one will care as much anymore.

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[–] Zando777 13 years ago

I doubt that. You're not allowed to film underage porn, regardless of consent.

[–] firstwinsgop 15 years ago

It's called art. Americans are so prudishly ridiculous sometimes.

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[–] WaltDinLV 14 years ago

I agree completely.

Americans are so worried about nudity and sex, something everyone is (nude) and nearly everyone does, a natural part of life that most adults partake in at one time or another.

On the other hand, violence is perfectly okay. From video games, adult swim and other animated fare, movies, and TV, violence is perfectly accepted by all too many Americans. Violence which is not normal for one to partake in, not everyone does it, and can get you locked up behind bars.

Sex: Natural, everyone does it, Americans find bad.
Violence: Horrible part of society, not done by everyone, in fact illegal, that's okay.

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[–] jcosyn-1 14 years ago

You overgeneralize. Not all Americans are prudish, any more than all Brits are ignorant, homosexual socialists with bad teeth and worse breath; or all Aussies are kangaroo-screwing, beer-swilling, belching wife-beaters. There's no need to label an entire population with one stereotype. We're all individuals. (Well, most of us are, anyway.)

[–] gsellars-1 13 years ago

That you can't understand the difference between allowing 16 year old girls to pose nude in movies and the representation of violence in movies says more about your twisted lack of moral values than it does about any society.

[–] Zando777 13 years ago

Yeah, it's much better in europe, where people like roman polanski are allowed to rape underage girls. Why don't we become more like that?

[–] gsellars-1 13 years ago

Though you use irony and sarcasm, I appreciate your attempts to point out the complete unreasonableness of the approval of immorality that pervades "modern" societies today.

[–] Demarates 12 years ago

"it's much better in europe, where people like roman polanski are allowed to rape underage girls."

Pretty sure that even in Europe, that's not allowed.

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[–] kidjay83 12 years ago

its called a young melanie griffith nude showing vag and ass shots .Sexy as hell and stimulating as well.

[–] kidjay83 12 years ago

"It's called art." if we were talking about some like the statue of Aphrodite Pan Eros.I would agree with you that's considered art ,paying and under aged girl to be filmed nude .Skinny dipping while getting the attention of and older man .That's not art sorry if you want art your not going to find it in this film .

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[–] BeaSouth (2808) 2 years ago

The problem is when a bunch of adults get a high school junior to take off her clothes to contribute to the success of a commercial enterprise. He character needed to be promiscuous I understand. But I can’t see why she had to take off her clothes in this movie other than to create market buzz and sell tickets. You can rationalize anything you want about art but at some point, there was a group of grown ass adults convincing a high schooler to take all her clothes off to entertain people in a movie.

[–] janesch 14 years ago

Pretty sure a body double was used for the full nudity shots.

[–] mpeachhead 14 years ago

It couldn't have been a body double. We see her roll around in the water, her face clearly visible. She was stark naked. Interestingly, Body Double is the title of another mystery film featuring a very naked Melanie Griffith, albeit some years later.

[–] jondoe888 13 years ago

What was the Brooke Shield movie, where she was topless - playing a 12yo prostitute? Her mother, also a prostitute, was auctioning off her virginity.

Melanie and 22yo Don Johnson start going out at 14, and moved in with him at 16(?). And her permissive mother? Tippi Hedren.
Mel was so hot in the black wig in 'Something Wild'!!!

[–] info-17326 13 years ago

I think Melinie and Don actueally married when she was 14. I also believe that Don moved in with Melinie and her Mother, Tippi Hendron at SHAMBLALA, Tipp's Lion sanctuary.

[–] ezkaban 13 years ago

She's completely topless (and photographed) in Smile, which, according to IMDB, also came out in 1975. According to math that would also put her fair and square underage. Yet people are still shocked and disbelieving that she was topless in the vacuuming scene in Working Girl. BTW, there is another breast/nipple showing when she is in bed with Harrison Ford. The horror!!

[–] reziztor 13 years ago

Brooke Shields did full nude at 12 years old.

Jodie Foster was 15/16 when she took it all off on screen for a movie called something like "The Girl Who Lives at the End of the Road."

Anyway, big deal... people have been programmed to have a knee-jerk reaction to young girls taking off clothes.

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[–] kidjay83 12 years ago

jodie foster used a body double for that movie

[–] inframan 13 years ago

" Yet, she is very naked in this movie. I'm not sure that's alright? "

Absolutely asinine comment, barely literate English as well. First of all one is either naked or one is not naked. No such thing as being "very" naked. Secondly the correct expression is "all right" not "alright". Most important of all, why even bring this up 35+ years after the film was released?

Look up the word "prurient", it might lead to some much needed self-awareness.

[–] WaltDinLV 13 years ago

I'm terribly sorry, inframan, I did not realize I'd be taking a grammar test when I wrote that.

However, studying up on my vocabulary words, I did look up "prurient":
Adjective: Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters.

also, having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.

Well, there you go. You've got me down to a 'T'. Now, I will save insane amounts of money on therapy.

Cheers!
Walt D in LV

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[–] ccr1633 13 years ago

How about all those naked infants we've seen in numerous movies? What about the Nirvana's "Nevermind" cover? Where does the child porn tag begin and end?

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[–] Noir-It-All 13 years ago

There was more sex in movies in the '70's and more graphic violence in movies today.

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[–] ThatGuamGuy 13 years ago

"There's an age limit on being without one's clothes?"

No, but there is (legally speaking) an age limit on being filmed without one's clothes on.

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