Ok, some of us have seen * Eyes Wide Shut*, which promised, but failed to deliver, a really hot love scene featuring a married couple- not only were the characters married, but Tom and Nicole are married IRL.
Most movies rated PG-13 or above have at least one sex scene in them, invariably involving people who are not only not married, but frequently have known each other less than 24 hours.
The sole exception to this rule is if the married couple is interrupted during the act of love so that the wife can be levitated aboard the mother ship and impregnated with an alien fetus. The aliens then put the couple back into position, wipe their memories and let them, uh, finish.
I personally couldn’t care one way or another if a movie has sex in it, but if there must be on-screen shtupping, I would at least like for the shtuppers to be wearing matching gold bands on the third fingers of their left hands.
So, is there some kind of MPA code that says you can’t show married couples doing the Wild Thing in the movies?
Well, you know Hollywood. They can’t stay married out there long enough to know what a long-term, loving commitment is. (“That must be something those midwestern goobers have”). I’m sure they think adultery, casual sex, and multiple partners (sequential or not) is the norm.
Weren’t the characters Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze played in “Ghost” married? Didn’t they make love and pottery before Patrick bought it? Then he got all ghosty, and he kissed Demi, and . . . sorry, there’s something in my eye. . .
I suppose Hollywood doesn’t think married sex can be exciting. Obviously, they don’t know what the heck they’re talking about! :o
Oh, and the Ghost thing? I don’t think they were married, either. IIRC, he couldn’t even say he loved her. She’d say I love you and all he could say was “Ditto.” :rolleyes:
In “Double Jeopardy”, Ashley Judd’s character and her husband do it on their boat, and in “Sleeping with the Enemy”, Julia Roberts and her creepy husband go at it in the kitchen.
Okay, so maybe they weren’t the happiest of couples… picky picky picky!!
One of most notorious (and hottest) sex scenes in film was between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. In the movie, the Christie and Sutherland characters have been married to each other for several years. It is notorious because a persistent rumor about the film was that the two actors actually did do it (though this has been vehemently denied since). I think another thing that makes the scene work is that it is intercut with them getting ready for a night on the town, and there is a certain melancholy that makes it more emotinally true than you see in most films.
Of course, there is also Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, where the headmaster obliges his class with a particularly graphic display of human sexuality with the Mrs.