Inspired by this thread, I’m interested in your opinions of moments or scenes from movies that are incredibly evocative or sensual without any outright humping, exposed privates, or lip smacking.
The one that comes instantly to my mind is Rebecca DeMornay in Risky Business, standing in dim moonlight with one leg on the window sill as her skirt flutters in a gentle breeze to the soft tones of a melodic arpeggio. She turns her head slowly, and in a quiet, lustful whisper says, “Are you ready for me? … Ralph?”.
"You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow. "
There’s also the conversation about horse racing in The Big Sleep.
Swordfish - when Hugh Jackman’s character sits down at his new computer on steroids. The music plays, he dances about as if trying to seduce the decryption.
Hottest thing in the movie or was it him in a towel teeing off from the top of his trailer?
I stick by my post in the other thread about Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment when she’s practicing to get through the lasers while blindfolded. Sheesh, some of the hottest stuff ever.
Bette Davis and Paul Henreid engage in some wonderfully hot cigarette sex in Now, Voyager. My favorite scene in this respect is when, after he lights two cigarettes at once and gives one to her (he actually does this 2-3 times in the course of the film), they both take deep drags and, all the while making significant eye contact, languidly blow the smoke into each other’s faces.
The Dressing for Battle scene in the Last Samurai. No nudity, no real physical contact, no anything, but I held my breath through the entire scene. Absolutely sensual, erotic, romantic and moving. IMHO, one of the sexiest scenes ever - sexual and nonsexual included.
Much of Kirsten Dunst’s oncscreen time in Spiderman 1 and 2 is, um, sexy. I particularly like it when she ‘flashes’ Peter to show that she works as a cafe waitress.
There are plenty of moments swimming around in my brain from films where unintentional (or ‘nonsexual’) moments were sexy, but they are rascalls to get hold of and recall. I just remember a boob here, a bum-cheek there.
Oh thanks for reminding me - the upside down kiss in the rain was utterly hot. I always expect to just spontaneously burst into flame while watching that scene.