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One scene I'm fond of is the piano scene from weird science. For anyone who hasn't seen the movie I'll set the scene: There's a house party, and a bunch of revelers are gathered in a large room with a piano. The girl in question is playing away when the titular weird science starts going down. Suddenly objects in the room start getting sucked out the window. Starting with the d****s, then some furniture, then finally the piano, the stool...The girl hangs onto something on the far wall and manages to hold out until her shirt and skirt are sucked off, then she's sucked out the window as well. It goes to pretty much full nudity and would be a perfect scene for me if it wasn't for the bizarre lighting that kicks in about halfway through.

Part of why I like it so much is that there's kind of a buildup where the girl isn't aware of her predicament until it's too late. Most of the partgoers clear out when the furniture starts dissapearing, leaving the girl blithely playing away while her surroundings are denuded. There was something about her lack of awareness of what was going on that made the scene work that much better for me. Maybe I'm alone in that thinking.

Another scene that did the same thing was the magnet schtick at the end of screwballs. Stuff starts going to hell in a handbasket all around the girl and she just keeps singing away like nothing's happening. Even after her costume starts to give way she's still pretty okay for a few seconds before she notices. Of course that scene was famously ruined by the credits. (What a ripoff)

Finally, way back when there was a Japanese production where a guy in a fake beard was using telekinesis to disrobe students at a Japanese high school. The girl keeps walking and going about her business as her duds are magically stripped away. She doesn't notice what has befallen her until it's pointed out to her, then we get the big ENF reaction.

I know the main reason why I like this type of scene: There's more bang for my buck. Real girls in real situations are too fast with their hands: No sooner have their boobies been freed from the confines of their textile prison than they are recaptured by their hands. In a fictional situation you can have an extended lapse in perception which allows me , prevert that I am, to get a better look at the goods.

But there's something else, too. I'm not sure what it is, and it could just be something that is specifically wrong with me, but there's something that really gets me about a chick in a normal situation who, if even for the briefest of moments, isn't aware that she's naked.

Put it this way, if any aspiring filmmaker were to make a better lit variation of the piano scene from weird science, I'd be right there with my money.

I've probably said enough.