# Why do directors always have to add stupid sappy love scenes?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-directors-always-have-to-add-stupid-sappy-love-scenes/272411 "2004-11-01T21:39:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-directors-always-have-to-add-stupid-sappy-love-scenes/272411/21 "2004-11-02T22:42:54Z")

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To be fair, the recent Richard Gere movie **Shall We Dance?** doesn’t have any sappy love scenes.

There’s a sappy reconciliation scene, and a brief hinting that one character has embraced his homosexual side, but I think the latter makes up for the former. 😉

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-directors-always-have-to-add-stupid-sappy-love-scenes/272411/22 "2004-11-03T02:29:16Z")

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> [@Miss Mapp](#):
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> If I want to see people cuddling in LOTR, that’s what hobbits are for.

Ah. A “pervy hobbit fancier,” then.

😃

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**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-directors-always-have-to-add-stupid-sappy-love-scenes/272411/23 "2004-11-03T04:34:03Z")

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Women dig it. Even many of the most rock-em women.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-directors-always-have-to-add-stupid-sappy-love-scenes/272411/24 "2004-11-03T17:12:45Z")

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> [@Billdo](#):
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> A recent film free of excess love scenes is [Master and Commander](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/). In fact, the film is, I believe, entirely free of women as it takes place in a British warship.
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> What I found interesting about the lack of romance in M&C is that the Patrick O’Brien books on which it was based contain a significant romance (and sex) plot line. In fact, the romances are what take the books a level above dull sailing stories.

I did see this movie…I liked it, although it grew on me. The first time around I thought it was kind of weird.

> [@Capacitor](#):
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> Women dig it. Even many of the most rock-em women.

Some do. And I’m not saying I never do. Just in the right circumstances. Romancing the Stone is appropriate. Bourne Identity had no use for a female. The role could have easily been filled by a male friend…but I’m sure homophobia would have reared its ugly head. A nice dapper English gentleman would have been perfect. 😃

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