I have just finished watching a terrific Scottish movie Dear Frankie on TV and it stimulated 3 threads. This is one of them.
The movie contained a lovely scene, concluded with a sedate kiss where you know that both parties wanted to know each other in the biblical sense.
There is a scene in The Last Samurai that I think is the briefest love scene of all time.
And my all time favourite is Shane where Jean arthur would really like Van Heflin to piss off so she can jump Alan Ladd’s bones. And each look is steamier than the last.
That’s a bad choice. I remember telling people to watch it when it was on TV and the editing made it impossible to follow the story. The scene where Racine meets Maddy’s “friend” consisted of two lines with no sexual innuendo.
One that jumps to mind is 40 days and 40 nights, where the male and female leads are trying to figure out how to do something without actually doing it.
That is the luckiest flower to ever be seen on screen.
The Age of Innocence. All those Victorian people, all dressed to their eyebrows, melting into puddles of lust right before our eyes. The glimpse of the innner wrist of the Countess Olenska was hot indeed…
There’s a Hitchcock movie that I’m thinking of but I can’t remember which one. It might be North by Northwest. A man and woman meet on a train and IIRC they don’t do anything but talk, but the conversation is really sexual between the lines.
There’s a scene in the film version of Pride & Prejudice where Darcy proposes to Lizzy for the first time, near a lake and out in the rain, and after she rejects him with such hate, there is such a deliciously sexy near-kiss in which he leans in and (if you’re watching the DVD) you can hear his faint “Please.” Don’t try to listen for this in YouTube clips because you just won’t hear it.
40 days and 40 nights, eh? I suppose that’s a good pick in its own right. Can’t wait to see what Perez has in his bag o’ tricks once the strike is over. If he manages to survive the winter, that is. He doesn’t do well in the snow…
I was gonna say Tom Jones. Or NCIS’ “Under Covers” episode? Aw, come on, give the kids a chance…
Bette Davis and Paul Henreid have the hottest cigarette-sex in Now Voyager when he does that put-two-cigarettes-in-your-mouth,-light-them, then-give-one-to-her thing, all while making significant eye contact, then they languidly blow the smoke in each others’ faces. I’ve never smoked, but… whoa!
