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Best and Most Memorable Part 13 |
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Most of these scenes come from vintage, classic Hollywood films, rather than more recent films, and even stretch back to the scandalous The Kiss (1896)! Other discussions of notable romantic or sexual scenes (with more examples of great kissing scenes) may be found elsewhere in this site: Romance Films Genre, or Erotic/Sexual Films Genre, or the History of Sex in Cinema. Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star |
| (in chronological order by film title) Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 |
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During a New Year's Eve celebration in Cuba that ushered in 1959 in a fancy ball in the Presidential Palace, amidst cheering, embracing, and confetti, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) whispered into traitorous brother Fredo's (John Cavale) ear as they grabbed each other: "There's a plane waiting for us to take us to Miami in an hour, all right? Don't make a big thing about it. (He forcefully grabbed him on both sides of the face and kissed him - Sicilian style. It was the kiss of death on his lips.) I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart" |
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Rife with guilt over the death of Alex Kintner (Jeffrey Voorhees), a rather detached Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) sat with his son Sean (Jay Mello) at the table and contemplated the events of the day. His young son mimicked his drinking gesture with his own glass of milk. The son also imitated the way his troubled father held his hands in deep thought and then covered his face. When Brody finally noticed that his son was copying his finger movements, he playfully made funny faces at him (the son responded with clawed hands and a shark-eating face). Martin finally said: "Give us a kiss." Sean asked: "Why", to which Martin murmured: "'Cause we need it". As mother and wife Ellen (Lorraine Gary) looked on, Sean gave his father a reassuring peck on the cheek |
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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
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In this suspenseful thriller directed by Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford starred as CIA operative Joe Turner (code-named "Condor") who inadvertently was away for lunch when everyone in his entire division's office was assassinated by a group led by Joubert (Max von Sydow) in association with a renegade CIA director named Higgins (Cliff Robertson). Fearing a conspiracy, Turner was forced to solve the mystery of the killings on his own, while hiding out in the apartment of kidnapped hostage Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway). After having her tied up for awhile in her bathroom, he untied her - and they kissed and made love in a very long and intense scene (with Dave Grusin jazz music), intercut with close-ups of black and white photos of park benches, bare trees, an empty road, etc. (pasted on Kathy's apartment wall expressing her loneliness) |
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The misfit romance between Adrian (Talia Shire) and Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) began to blossom after a first kiss in one of the tenderest, most authentic and affecting scenes ever filmed. At his door, he begged for her not to go and intercepted her exit. And then he asked for her to remove her outdated glasses, noting that she had really "nice eyes." As a second favor, he asked Adrian to take off her wool cap, and then complimented her on how pretty she was: "I always knew you was pretty." Self-deprecating, Adrian replied: "Don't tease me," but Rocky was respectfully sincere about her budding beauty: "I ain't teasin' ya." He leaned forward, asking to kiss her: "I wanna kiss ya. You don't have to kiss me back if ya don't wanna. I wanna kiss you." After one soft kiss, she responded and lightly returned the kiss. After the long-delayed moment, the pay-off was magical and natural. They passionately gave themselves to each other with more kisses and an embrace as they collapsed in each other's arms to the floor next to the front door |
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During a weekend date, Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) ended up accompanying aspiring singer Annie (Diane Keaton) to a Saturday nightclub audition for their first date - an awful debut experience as she timidly sang: "It Had To Be You"; walking along on the sidewalk afterwards to a deli (in a single, completely unbroken long shot), Alvy attempted to make her feel better, encouraging her as an older mentor; suddenly, he stopped and asked for a kiss so they wouldn't have to be tense all evening: "Yeah, why not? Because we're just going to go home later, right, and there's gonna be all that tension, you know, we never kissed before. And I'll never know when to make the right move or anything. So we'll kiss now and get it over with, and then we'll go eat. OK? We'll digest our food better" |
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Manhattan (1979)
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After seeing a W. C. Fields film together, Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) and Mary Wilke (Diane Keaton) went back to her place, where he laughingly complained about the lack of food in her refrigerator: ("Corned beef should not be blue!"). He then told her to come over to him - and gave her a long, passionate kiss; she then asked quizzically: "What are you doing?" to which he responded: "What am I doing, you have to ask what I'm doing?!" He then admitted that it was something he had wanted to do for the longest time since meeting her. She said she thought he wanted to kiss her at the Hayden Planetarium. He replied: "Yeah, I did...you were so sexy, you know, in the rain, I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you" |
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Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979)
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In Werner Herzog's version of the classic Bram Stoker tale and F.W. Murnau's silent Nosferatu (1922), the tortured, bald, rat-fanged and pointy-eared Count Dracula/Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski) first attempted to have Lucy Harker (Isabelle Adjani), and told her as his distorted shadow preceded him into the room behind wide-eyed Lucy's reflection in the mirror: "You must excuse my rude entrance. I am Count Dracula" - he then offered: "Come to me and be my ally...the absence of love is the most abject pain," but she refused him; later, the pure and virginal Lucy offered herself up sacrificially to the vampire; with a pale face and wearing a white gown, she was lying perfectly still and awaiting his 'kiss'; as he groped her breast with his long fingered-hand, he slowly descended to bite her neck and feed upon her; her ploy to keep him there paid off - the rising sun's light from her window sealed the Count's fate |
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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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Han Solo (Harrison Ford) passionately kissed Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) for the first time, while she helped him to repair the Millenium Falcon on the asteroid, and almost made her faint, after a long-running spitefulness that they showed to each other; although indignant, she couldn't find the words to express herself; earlier in the film, she had spitefully told him: "I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee" and he shot back: "You can use a good kiss"; she called him a "laser-brain" and had considered him to be a "scoundrel", but he claimed to the contrary that he was a "nice man"; the kissing scene ended quickly and humorously when they were suddenly interrupted by C3PO, who cheerfully told Han about the repairs he had made to the ship; they also kissed later when she confessed she was "someone who loves you" |
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When investigating Room 237 in the Overlook Hotel, half-crazed caretaker Jack (Jack Nicholson) pushed open the half-closed bathroom door of the mysterious, green and orange room, where he saw a young, totally-nude female figure (Lia Beldam) bathing - she rose, and slowly stepped from the tub and approached; Jack lustfully leered back at her and was sexually seduced by the apparition; when she stopped in the middle of the room, he started toward her - she seductively moved her hands up over his chest and around his neck; Jack embraced and kissed the illusory, beautiful bather - but when he looked over her shoulder at their embrace in the mirror behind her, he saw that her age had accelerated; she was metamorphisized into a demonic, necrophiliac lover - a pulsating, partially-decomposed corpse - a wrinkled, thick-skinned old hag (Billie Gibson)! |
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Superman II (1980)
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At the conclusion of this film in a scene set in Lois Lane's (Margot Kidder) Daily Planet office, Clark Kent/Superman (Christopher Reeve) gave Lois an "amnesia kiss" - an ingenious plot device - when she was anguished at knowing his secret identity; she began by telling him about her upset and sleepless night: "I sat up all night listening to the voices of reason. Do you know how vile it is to hear the first bird of the morning singing, when you've been sitting up all night, crying?...I guess I'm just too selfish...Yes, I am selfish when it comes to you. I am selfish. And I'm jealous of the whole world...Don't tell me that I'll meet somebody. You're kinda...tough act to follow, you know? Now, I'm gonna be fine. You don't have to worry about me." When Clark replied: "I like worrying about you", she muttered back while sobbing: "Would you stop? Don't you know that this is killing me? Do you know what it's like to have you come in here, every morning, and not be able to talk to you? Not be able to… show I have any feelings for you, not...be able to tell anyone I know who you are? I don't even know what to call you!...I dunno, just... say that you love me"; to end her pain, he gave her a prolonged kiss that somehow erased her memory of his being Superman, allowing her to function without that painful knowledge |
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On Golden Pond (1981)
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This was a heartwarming film about an aging couple at their summer place; in one of the later scenes, retired college professor and avid fisherman Norman Thayer, Jr. (Henry Fonda) had suffered a mild heart attack on their cabin's front porch, something which for the first time made his wife Ethel (Katharine Hepburn) realize their approaching mortality; when he recovered, he stood up and asked Ethel, while holding her in his arms: ''Wanna dance or would you rather just suck face?'' -- using slang he had learned from 13 year-old Billy (Doug McKeon), and then he reminded her of the sound of the loons on the lake: "They've come round to say goodbye"; together, they walked down to the water's edge, where Norman spoke: "Just the two of 'em now. Babies all grown up and moved to Los Angeles, or somewhere"; the camera panned to the left as they leaned into each other - presumably to kiss |
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Created in 1996-2008 © by Tim Dirks. All rights reserved.
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