Hijack, but not worth a separate threat. Another goofy thing in movies is when the woman comes into her apartment/house after a heavy date, she closed the door and leans back against it, looking rapturous.
Hmmmm. I can’t say that I have ever done that, but recently, I did drive away from a date thinking “ohmygodohmygodohmygod.”
It was an incredible evening. Actually, come to think of it, it was the same evening with the same gentlemen who elicited the raised leg during our kiss.
I think the notion was supposed to be that they were repressing expression of their rapturous mood while out in public, but feel free to express it in private.
Dunno if any real-life women actually do this, it seems a product of another age.
I wonder if it’s at all related to the whole like, Olive Oyl thing, for example. When you’re being wooed by a handsome gent and clasp your hands together against your face and sort of pivot, almost as if you’re trying to keep yourself from losing all control, i.e. kicking your leg back, in the face of utter smitteninity*.
Disturbing note to all this - I saw a documentary on Roy Orbison which included his induction into the RnR Hall of Fame. The person who inducted him made a speech, then gave Roy a big hug, and his leg did the lift thing. And that person was…
Fierra is the same height as me (minus 1 inch at best) and she does it when we kiss. She said she never did it before she met me. It’s happened to me as well at least once and I wasn’t aware I was doing it. It could be copying the movies or it could be innate; it’s hard to say.