Melanie Griffith Under Age Nudity?

They show BABIES naked all the time even in the America. Well, obviously no one is sexually attracted to babies, you say. But that's THE POINT. This kind of stuff bothers people so much because they obviously ARE sexually attracted to 16-year-old girls like Melanie Griffith. So what? Is there a danger they're going to go back to 1974 and commit statutory rape against her?

Today there is rarely "underage" nudity in American movies, but does that mean no one ever has impure thoughts about an underage girl like, say, Chloe Moretz? I doubt it. This is the same logic that leads to Islamists to make women wear full-length burkas. If you can't deal with your own lustful feelings, don't blame it on teenage girls or 40-year-old movies

If you pause the movie on the first nude shot - flash of boobies before Melanie pulls her top down over them - you can see they've been blurred so the nipples are 90% obscured. Either that or she was wearing a light skin-coloured fabric over her bosom.

I didn't bother checking any of the later so-called nude shots - which were longer shots (camera farther away) - but I bet all the "critical bits" were covered or obscured in one way or the other. She was, after all, just a teenager.

If you want real teenage nudity in an A list film of the same period (4 years earlier actually), check out Jenny Agutter in Walkabout.

nothing wrong with her portrayal in the film. Its not like Gene Hackman bangs her. On the contrary his sexual interests are - as a feminists like it - age appropriate

Actually Melanie Griffith was very likely 15 when the film was shot. It says in the trivia that the shoot took place in 1973, so it took a while for the film to be edited and released.

Furthermore in one scene you can see a hanging calendar for 'June 1973', at which time Melanie was definitely 15.

I'm going to give Arthur Penn the benefit of the doubt and say (guess) that he wasn't just getting in a good perve, but the nudity and see-through clothes fit in with the aura of post-1968, post-Watergate no-exit despair and sleaziness. All the characters are a mess, adrift, they don't know what they're doing, and growing up during the 70s I remember that this kind of permissiveness was very much in vogue at the time. The striving for spiritual freedom of the 60s turned into a much more literal idea of freedom yet confused in the 70s. Of course, ultimately it only accelerated and is much worse now. 10 year old girls dress like prostitutes and nobody gives a *beep* Worthless scumbags become Republican nominees for president and nobody gives a *beep* The creators of this story hadn't seen nothin' yet.

Who cares? She most certainly looked 100% better than her daughter. Have you seen, "Fifty shades of Grey?" LOL

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Just saw this movie. It was eye opening on many fronts, but I don't think underage nudity was illegal back then. They made all kinds of movies due to the relaxed social climate about sexuality, nudity and drugs. It's a big deal today because it's illegal.

Who cares? In the U.S., in the twenty-first century, we have become so uptight the Victorians would laugh at us. Griffith came through the movie just fine. People today act like "see a nipple, go to hell!". It's ridiculous.