Hollywood's Sexiest Sexless Scenes

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Hollywood's Sexiest Sexless Scenes

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Hollywood’s Sexiest Sexless Scenes | Magazine

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By Patton Oswalt & Adam Rogers This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
May 10, 2011 |
12:00 pm |
Wired June 2011

Illustration: Everett

There is no shortage of seduction scenes in feature films—especially during casting. Most roundups are more predictable than a Kate Hudson rom-com: Body Heat, 9 ½ Weeks, Out of Sight. Sure, sure. Those flicks are hot. But there are plenty of other movies with sizzling moments between characters that aren’t necessarily preludes to sex. Herewith: some underrated encounters we find unforgettable.
Inception
Cobb takes the barest instant to realize that the way to Ariadne’s heart—to her loyalty—is through her mind. He knows that appealing to her desire for absolute creative freedom will suck her into the dreamspace, because the same thing happened to him.
Glengarry Glen Ross
In a faded restaurant bar, Al Pacino entices Jonathan Pryce into buying worthless real estate with one charged monologue. One of the better examples of “attack by retreating” ever put on film.
3:10 to Yuma
In the 1957 version, outlaw Glenn Ford tries to beguile Van Heflin into releasing him—he even spends the majority of the film lying provocatively on a floral bedspread in the hotel’s “bridal suite.”
Never Say Never Again
Q Branch may put every gadget at his disposal, but all Sean Connery’s James Bond needs to seduce his hard-as-nails physical therapist is foie gras on a cracker.
She’s Gotta Have It
Sultry Nola Darling dumps oddball Mars Blackmon, but his pathetic apology (“please baby, baby, baby please!”) turned us into fans.
The Terminator
Kyle Reese waits for the passage of multiple gunfights, rescues, and a jailbreak before professing his love for Sarah Connor. From naked, paranoid stranger to humanity- ensuring sex in a cheap motel? Well played, resistance fighter. Well played.
Ghostbusters
Am I the Keymaster? Why, yes, beautiful Sigourney Weaver in a flowing red dress making flirty eyes at me, I am the Keymaster. Also, I think I just experienced puberty. Again.
The Jungle Book
Kaa’s song “Trust in Me,” plus the spiral hypnotic eyes, almost succeed in getting Mowgli to submit to being lunch. Best snake seduction since Bob Fosse in The Little Prince.
The Lady Eve
If you were a nerdy ophiologist on a boat, all it would take for you to fall in love with Barbara Stanwyck would be a well-tossed apple to the noggin, too. Don’t deny it.
Revenge of the Sith
How Palpatine lures Anakin to the Dark Side is unclear: Amidala will die otherwise? Obi Wan is holding you back? But it does result in Darth Vader, so that’s awesome, right? Right? Guys? Where’d everyone go?