The reason I called (and still call) this the "greatest" ENF scene of all time (besides the reasons listed in my original post) is because this is the most embarrassed I've seen a girl in a mainstream movie or TV show and this is the most embarrassing situation I've seen a girl in in a mainstream movie or TV show. I didn't even take the nudity level (Whether or not we, the viewers, can actually see the girl naked is irrelevant to me, because the girl is naked in the "movie world" and is embarrassed not because we, the viewers, are seeing her, but because other characters are.), reason for stripping, or dream sequence nature of the scene into consideration. Those and other factors are far less important in my personal "critiques" of ENF scenes than are 1. how embarrassed the girl is (i.e. her reaction) and 2. how embarrassing the situation the girl is in is (i.e. where the girl is, how many people see her, how she is undressed, etc.) (On a side note, this is the very reason I've never really liked that Charlotte Ross "NYPD Blue" ENF scene. Even though we see nudity, it is really happening, etc., Charlotte doesn't act anywhere near as embarrassed as Kirsten does in this scene. No scream, no look of surprise, no fumbling for a towel, just a grimace, a tiny gasp, and a slow cover-up. Just doesn't do it for me. Whatever.)
I still haven't seen a more realistic, yet exaggerated, and perfect ENF expression and reaction than Kirsten Dunst's in this scene. From the time she realizes her nudity all the way through to the end after she wakes up, she is totally and utterly embarrassed (I don't see her exclamation of "Holy shit!" as a sigh of relief, but as the last extension of the embarrassment. Praise the editor for cutting to the titles right where the embarrassment would naturally end). As for the situation, I personally find the inexplicable loss of clothing to be more "embarrassing" than a more "realistic" mode of stripping, whether it be magical, magnetic, or whatever, because the girl doesn't know where her clothes are, doesn't know why they're gone, and has no way of getting them back. She is left with nothing to do but desperately cover up and scream, while, in this case, hundreds of people ogle her and call out to her. Now
that's embarrassing. And
that's why I still think this is the greatest ENF scene of all time.
Fango