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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
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610.0. "What is your favorite love scene?" by 9664::LAING (Soft-Core Cuddler * TAY1-2/H9 * 227-4472) Fri Aug 12 1994 14:54

    I couldn't find a note on this topic ... hope it's OK with the
    mod's ...
    
    What movies (G, PG, R - not X!) contain your favorite "love scenes"?
    
    	Jim
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610.1...9664::LAINGSoft-Core Cuddler * TAY1-2/H9 * 227-4472Fri Aug 12 1994 14:554
610.258633::TRP109::Chrisyes siree BobFri Aug 12 1994 19:147
I love the scene in "Last of the Mohicans" were Daniel Day Lewis is by the 
waterfall with Madeline Stowe and he is yelling at her to "JUST STAY 
ALIVE... I WILL BE BACK AND FIND YOU... JUST STAY ALIVE!!"

It gives me shivers.

Chris
610.332094::RODERICKWhat you do makes a difference.Fri Aug 12 1994 19:2713
    re .2

>I love the scene in "Last of the Mohicans" were Daniel Day Lewis is by the 
>waterfall with Madeline Stowe and he is yelling at her to "JUST STAY 
>ALIVE... I WILL BE BACK AND FIND YOU... JUST STAY ALIVE!!"
 
    No no no! It's one of the most unnatural-sounding set of sentences 
    ever spoken on the screen:  "Stay alive! No matter what occurs! I 
    will find you!"

    We say this to coworkers as they go to the caf to get lunch.

    Lisa
610.4OOTOOL::CHELSEAMostly harmless.Fri Aug 12 1994 22:031
    Well, they _did_ speak a little differently back then....
610.527958::TOMAOSat Aug 13 1994 16:2016
    I agree with .3  I gag every time I even think of that line - it didn't
    help it was on all the previews.
    
    Back on track - 
    
    I prefer the movies from the 30s and 40s for 2 different reasons.  I
    love the Jean Harlow movies when she was the 'vamp' or tart and the
    scenes with her leading men (including the rain barrel scene with Clark
    Gable) but I also love the scenes after the Hayes laws were established
    and all you saw were the lovers heading for the bedroom or the deep
    long kisses that left off there and you had to use your imagination
    instead of gel lighting and awkward poses and moves half under the
    sheets.
    
    Jt
    
610.6Legends ....36680::RAGUCCISun Aug 14 1994 02:309
    
    
    
    
    I agree..................Those were Legends, real Movie Stars,
    not always good acting though.      . Who do we have today with that
    screen presence?
    
    Bob
610.7A few favourites54291::GARLICK_NMon Aug 15 1994 05:3822
    The Big Easy		Because of everything that keeps going
    				wrong that first time.
    
    The Last of the Mohicans    The "I'm looking at you, miss" scene,
    				because they didn't lay a finger on each
    				other and yet it was electrifying. 
    
    Betty Blue			Enough said already, I think.
    
    The Clock			Robert Walker and Judy Garland in the park,
    				listening to the sounds of the city and
    				slowly walking closer and closer to each
    				other.
    
    The Piano			The first kiss in the doorway of Harvey
    				Keitel's house. Blast off.
    
    
    Just a few, but some of my favourites.
    
    Nick
    
610.8y16134::HORNE_CHORNET-THE FALL GUYMon Aug 15 1994 13:155
    
    DEBBIE DOES DALLAS
    
    
    HORNEt
610.9it's o.k. chere (sp?)58633::TRP109::Chrisyes siree BobMon Aug 15 1994 13:5210
I forgot about that scene from the Big Easy - it is one of my fav's too.
"stop it"
"what?"
"it"
"do you mean this?"

I always thought that acting out one of those scenes must be REAL 
embarassing, and Ellen Barkin sure did look awkward.

A sexist remark.... does Denis Quaid not have the best ripply stomach??
610.103759::AHERNDennis the MenaceMon Aug 15 1994 14:117
    RE: .8  by 16134::HORNE_C 
    
    >DEBBIE DOES DALLAS
    
    Oh come on, that's porno.  There's more eroticism in Molly's soliloquy
    from "Ulysses" and all we see is her face.
    
610.11DSSDEV::RUSTMon Aug 15 1994 21:2047
    Oddly enough (or is it?), there have been very few of what I would call
    "love scenes" that did very much for me, either romantic-wise or
    erotic-wise. Either the couple isn't believable (and/or isn't
    likeable), which shoots down the romanticism, or the erotic aspects are
    too blatant and/or too clumsy (this includes nearly every kiss that's
    shot these days; that much tongue action that close up tends to look
    more like a documentary on "The Tongue: Nature's All-Purpose
    Handi-Wipe"). But there have been a few sequences, such as (in no
    particular order)...
    
    o "Lady and the Tramp": the spaghetti scene. [The remake of this in
    "Hot Shots Part Deux" was funny, but somehow missed the sweetness of
    the original. ;-)] Never mind how far removed it was from actual doggie
    courting behavior...
    
    o "Ladyhawke": several romantic scenes in this one, but my favorite was
    that chilly dawn when he-becoming-a-wolf and she-returning-from-being-
    a-hawk got to glimpse each other in human form - for a fraction of a 
    second... Not so much as a kiss, or a single word, but it was lovely.
    
    o I'm not sure these count, exactly, but the verbal-sparring "love
    scenes" from some of the great screwball comedies are among my
    favorites: "His Girl Friday," "The Palm Beach Story," "The Lady Eve".
    The best of these touch on a lot of the different feelings one can have
    about love, including the painful ones, but they do it with the kind of
    snappy dialogue that I always wish I'd been able to think of at the key
    moment (and seldom, if ever, do!).
    
    o "Sabrina" (Bogart and Hepburn). A bit on the manipulative and
    patronizing side, but I loved it anyway; in fact, a lot of movies along
    "Jane Eyre" lines appeal to me, perhaps because they tend to have both
    parties, no matter how old/young or rich/poor, worrying that they aren't
    good enough for each other, and most of the plot seems to revolve around
    how long it will take for the one with the most common sense to figure
    it all out and rise above their fears.
    
    o In the erotic-but-not-necessarily-loving category, I'd put several of
    the Dracula films, but especially Frank Langella's; the whole vampire
    concept is eroticism gone mad, and Langella put the most beautiful
    face on it.
    
    Then there are some scenes that seem like love scenes to me, but that
    probably wouldn't make anybody else's list - like the "confession" scene
    in "Reservoir Dogs", for example. But that might be wandering a _bit_
    far afield of the intention of the topic!
    
    -b
610.12The Terminator10529::HAYNESMon Aug 15 1994 22:463
    Love scene between Kyle and Sarah in THE TERMINATOR
    
    Michael
610.13this will do...38110::TRAVISeclat, humaniste, passionTue Aug 16 1994 04:035
    Dances With Wolves
    
    
        Between Costner and Stands With A Fist.
    
610.14two with subtitles26523::BRANDENBERGTue Aug 16 1994 15:168
For eroticism, two of my favorites are the initial bit of sex between
the kidnapper and the porn star in Almodovar's 'Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down'
and the egg scene from 'Tampopo.'  The former is a truly enjoyable,
energetic romp and the latter a rather slow, sensuous building of
tension.  Very different but both are very nice.

monty
610.15"Law of Desire" is also good58633::TRP109::Chrisyes siree BobTue Aug 16 1994 15:265
I think any of Almodovar's movies are sexy, particulary the ones with 
Antonio Bandaras.  Is it just me, or do foreign (European) films seem to 
have a much more natural quality to their love scenes?  I don't think the 
actors qet quite so hung up with exposing their bodies (if you'll pardon the 
expression :*)      ^^^^^^^ 
610.16Yes, yes.16930::SMITH_MATue Aug 16 1994 18:048
    Well, of recent films I'd probably have to say Like Water For
    Chocolate.  This movie has some incredibly beautiful love
    scenes...and even though they never touched each other the scene in
    Remains Of The Day between Thompspn and Hopkins when she corners him in
    the library and takes his book is THE most intense on-screen moment
    between two people that I have ever seen.
    
    Mary Jo
610.17romantic36058::TARDUGNOMTue Aug 16 1994 23:404
    How about Rocky (1)  when he corners Adrianne at the door...doesn't
    want her to leave ..asks her to take off her glasses and hat...
    and then they embrace and kiss...and drift down to the floor
    incredibly romantic..whew!
610.1829052::WSA038::SATTERFIELDClose enough for jazz.Thu Aug 18 1994 23:2113

Two of my favorite love scenes are also death scenes, both occur at or almost
the ends of their respective films.

Cathy's death scene in _Wuthering Heights_ (the '39 Wyler film with Oliver and
Oberon not the British film with Timothy Dalton or the Mexican film with ?).
One of the two or three most beautiful and moving scenes in film, imho.

Mrs Muir's death scene in _The Ghost and Mrs Muir_.


Randy
610.19She's not bad she's just drawn that way.42653::WILLIAMSMBorn to grepFri Aug 19 1994 09:5218
    Maybe this is me being a crass idiot showing his true 30 going on 14
    level but I offer up Cry Freeman pt1.  The heroine and hero(twisted to
    villainy by the 108 dragons)  end up loosing there virginity together
    just before they both believe that she is going to be murdered.  Of
    course nothing of the sort happens.   The heroine is very
    danitily drawn and at least initially in oriental dress.  The
    (anti)hero is very heavily tatoo'ed in the way of the classic Japanese
    gangster.  This compares very interestingly with the second love scene
    which is really a sex scene between a compromised policeman and the wife
    of a gang land youth boss that Freeman killed.  Just to prove that bad
    girls really do have larger breasts it happens at her husbands funeral
    and it is she that is tatoo'ed.  This whole scene though essentailly
    animated the same was as the first has other little differences that
    make it quite different.  Alas like most movies its all about as erotic
    as tractor maintenance.
    
    
    regards, michael.                                           
610.20make love23415::ROGERZHUMon Aug 29 1994 07:555
    Making love is the best battle between man ang woman. I hope more and
    more people would enjoin this team!
    
    honest!
    
610.2138346::SCHIAVONEThe politics of dancingMon Aug 29 1994 16:024
	Catherine Deneauve (sp) and Susan Sarandon in the "The Hunger"

	/Cap'n Quad
610.22USCTR1::HSCOTTLynn Hanley-ScottMon Oct 17 1994 13:204
    Opening scene of "No Way Out".
    
    Much of "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
    
610.23Well I liked it FABSIX::TR_TAYLORMon Apr 08 1996 03:077
    Milk Money
    ...up in the tree house....the hooker and the Dad.....
    Dad: "if this is your first time...it may hurt..."
    hooker: "are you trying to be funny?"
    
    I cant remember the exact wording of the rest!! But one of the best
    ever!!