# Movies With No Love Interests **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554 "2019-11-16T21:50:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/101 "2019-11-19T12:47:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Moby Dick > Robinson Crusoe You need to read the “slash fiction” versions of those, where Robinson and Friday have a romantic entanglement, and so do Ahab and The White Whale. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/102 "2019-11-19T13:12:43Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s minor, but Elliot kisses a girl he likes in his class (under the telepathic influence of ET, who is watching John Wayne kiss Maureen O’Hara on TV) and is sent to the principal’s office. \*\*This \*\*is the girl he kissed: > **[Erika Eleniak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Eleniak)** > > Erika Eleniak (born September 29, 1969) is an American-Canadian actress, Playboy Playmate, and model known for her role in Baywatch as Shauni McClain. Her film debut was in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). She starred in the films The Blob (1988), Under Siege (1992), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). > Erika Eleniak was born in Glendale, California. Her father, Dale Alan Eleniak, is of Ukrainian descent and her mother, Iris Maya (Neggo) Arnold is of Estonian and German descent. Eleniak's pate... ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/103 "2019-11-19T13:26:02Z")
Escape From New York Escape From Los Angeles (The movies with Snake Plissken, who we all thought was dead.) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/104 "2019-11-19T15:36:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You need to read the “slash fiction” versions of those, where Robinson and Friday have a romantic entanglement, > > and so do Ahab and The White Whale. Who’s the top? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/105 "2019-11-19T16:16:22Z")
Since we seem to have completely abandoned the “to the 70s” timeframe: _Pacific Rim_. The two main characters have a very close emotional bond, and they’re of opposite genders, and they very easily could have written in romance between them… but they didn’t. And most of the other people sharing such a bond were family members, so there’s no implication that it had to be romantic. And perhaps a bit obvious, but _Gravity_. Though it’s not hard to avoid romance when almost the entire movie is one character. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/106 "2019-11-19T16:43:01Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Robinson Crusoe Actually, I was referring to the best known version, by Luis Bunuel (1954). The 1997 version with Pierce Brosnan evidently adds a subplot in which Crusoe kills his friend in duel over his childhood love Mary and flees to sea. He’s reunited with Mary at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/107 "2019-11-19T16:51:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You need to read the “slash fiction” versions of those, where Robinson and Friday have a romantic entanglement, > > and so do Ahab and The White Whale. [Obligatory Family Guy reference] Chris: Dad, what’s the blowhole for? Peter: I’ll tell you what it’s NOT for son, and then you’ll understand why I can never go back to SeaWorld [/OFGR] ---
**Author:** ![Vic\_Parrish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Vic\_Parrish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vic_Parrish)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/108 "2019-11-19T18:47:41Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Shrek Shrek doesn’t have a love interest? What’s Fiona then? ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/109 "2019-11-19T21:42:32Z")
Just how much romance is there in \*The Hobbit \*(which I have not seen, but read) and the _Lord of the Rings_ series? ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/110 "2019-11-19T22:09:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Since we seem to have completely abandoned the “to the 70s” timeframe: > > 🙂 > [@Colibri](#): > > Actually, I was referring to the best known version, by Luis Bunuel (1954). The 1997 version with Pierce Brosnan evidently adds a subplot in which Crusoe kills his friend in duel over his childhood love Mary and flees to sea. He’s reunited with Mary at the end. I don’t remember “Los Olvidados” having a love interest, but its been a while since I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/111 "2019-11-19T22:11:16Z")
I remember a really good one… “La Caza” (The Hunt), directed by Carlos Saura. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/112 "2019-11-19T22:11:23Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > _Ice Station Zebra_ Not only no love interest, but there isn’t even a line of dialog by a woman. I’m not sure there was even an female extra (although there was one bar scene so I could be incorrect on this last point). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/113 "2019-11-19T22:21:31Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Well, Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) was clearly having an affair with his female assistant. [whispering urgently] “I \*told \*you never to call me here!” Off the top of my head: \*The Hidden Midnight Run Men in Black Dredd Yojimbo The Silence of the Lambs Glory Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome The Nice Guys The Bad News Bears Absolute Power Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Seven Samurai Misery The Favourite The Guilty The Florida Project - ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/114 "2019-11-19T22:25:17Z")
Seven Samurai is still incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/115 "2019-11-19T22:33:02Z")
> [@Brayne\_Ded](#): > > Just how much romance is there in \*The Hobbit \*(which I have not seen, but read) and the _Lord of the Rings_ series? There’s a fair amount of romance in LOTR, including Aragorn and Arwen, Eowyn (unrequited) for Aragorn, Samwise and Rosie, and Gollum and Shelob.😉 The romances are made more prominent in the movies than in the books. There is no romance to speak of that I recall in _The Hobbit_ book. In the films, a love affair was introduced between the dwarf Kili and the elf Thranduil (who was not in the book). :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/116 "2019-11-19T22:38:08Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > Seven Samurai is still incorrect. Yes. See post #17. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/117 "2019-11-19T23:23:52Z")
> [@spifflog](#): > > Not only no love interest, but there isn’t even a line of dialog by a woman. > > I’m not sure there was even an female extra (although there was one bar scene so I could be incorrect on this last point). I asked someone if there was a movie that described modern life, and he recommended this one. Is it good though? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/118 "2019-11-19T23:38:58Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > There is no romance to speak of that I recall in _The Hobbit_ book. In the films, a love affair was introduced between the dwarf Kili and the elf Thranduil (who was not in the book). :rolleyes: Nitpick: Tauriel. Thranduil is an elven leader of the Mirkwood. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/119 "2019-11-20T00:01:02Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Nitpick: Tauriel. Thranduil is an elven leader of the Mirkwood. :smack: But hey, a romance between Thranduil and Kili might be cool.😃 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554/120 "2019-11-20T00:15:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Men in Black J and the coroner was definitely a thing > [@](#): > > Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan There was some stuff going on in that. Kirk and Carol, most notably, but also the relationship between Khan and Marla from _Space Seed_ bleeds over into the movie. > [@](#): > > The Silence of the Lambs Oh, now that leads to some squicky territory that I do not yearn to visit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-no-love-interests/843554.md?page=7)