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Originally Posted by fango44
Note: The fact that this is THE GREATEST ENF SCENE OF ALL TIME! is indisputable.
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Sorry, friend, I dispute it. I don't think this is the greatest of all time... in fact, I don't even particularly like it. It just goes to show that there are different tastes. There are at least three critiques I'd make of this clip, and here they are in increasing order of severity:
1. No nudity. Call me old-fashioned, but this still matters to me. If an entire crowd is getting to check out her goodies, I don't see why I can't either. This isn't a fatal flaw... plenty of excellent, beautiful ENF scenes have been pulled off without nudity. But all else being equal, a clip with nudity is better than one without.
2. No reason for loss of clothing. Okay, look. When it comes to ENF scenes, my threshold for plausibility is really, really low. A kid develops psychic powers and uses them to rip off clothing? I can buy that. A powerful magnet is rigged to rip off the prom queen's dress? Sure, why not? Rival sororities choose to settle their differences with a public game of strip football? Pass the lotion! (Connoisseurs will instantly recognize all three examples, of course.) But in this clip, there's no reason at all. All of a sudden, her clothes just vanish. Not only does this peg the clip as a certain dream sequence (see reason #3 below) but it means the crucial question of
why goes unanswered. And not only that, but it also means there's no antagonist (or protagonist, from our point of view.) Another party hasn't schemed to strip Kirsten out of mischief or malice. Rather it's as thought God Himself blinked at her and her clothing disappeared. Sorry, it just doesn't work for me.
3. Dream sequence. This is a big spoiler for me. If a character in a movie dreamed of his own death and then awoke safe and sound in his own bed, there's no way I could call that the greatest death scene of all time, just as I can't call this the greatest ENF of all time. Why? No consequences. You point out what she does after she wakes up, and I just don't see the saving grace there. She wakes up in a panic, she checkes her clothes... and then, as it always does after dream ENF, the panic and embarrassment dissolve into relief. She's
not really naked, she
hasn't just been humiliated in front of her entire class, she's safe and sound in bed. No need to be embarrassed, nothing to worry about, it was all just a dream. That's an automatic deduction of 1.5 points. I give this clip a 6.8.
My own nominee for best ENF has got to be the strip football game in H.O.T.S... of course, considering my bias towards stripping games this isn't surprising. Points in favor: Multiple embarrassed girls, over a dozen. Slow stripping, piece by piece. Forced to reveal selves rather than having clothes ripped away. Stripped by enemies... who are fighting to save themselves from being stripped. Stripped in front of a large, cheering crowd which is there for the express purpose of
seeing them stripped. Spending a lot of time topless and embarrassed. Stripped while doing an activity (playing a sport, in fact) which makes covering up difficult or impossible. And attempting to play while covering up is what causes one team to lose the game (and presumably their panties, although alas we don't get to see this) and this is explicitly pointed out. I mean, c'mon, this is a frickin' Picasso. Just the scene right after the H.O.T.S. girls lose their bikini tops and the camera tilts down to the field and you see top after top fall to the ground is pure directorial genius.