Erotic
Scenes and Films in the 80s:
- the shocking (for its time) bare bottom and full-frontal
view of high-priced, narcissistic stud-for-hire Richard Gere in writer/director
Paul Schrader's American Gigolo (1980) - one of the first scenes
of its kind with a major Hollywood star
- Brian De Palma's Hitchcock-like slasher film Dressed
to Kill (1980), with Angie Dickinson's steamy nude shower scene, a rape
fantasy sequence, and blonde prostitute Nancy Allen's tempting ploy to catch
the psychopath
- the sexy, grinding mechanical bull-riding of Debra Winger
in honky-tonk Gilley's in Urban Cowboy (1980)
- the shipwrecked-and-stranded on a lush tropical island
sex fantasy - with only teasing nudity - of The Blue Lagoon (1980) with
teenaged Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins
- Burt Lancaster's watching of clam bar croupier/waitress
Susan Sarandon bathing her breasts with lemon oil in front of an open window
to remove the fishy smell in Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1981)
a
recent film noir, Body Heat (1981),
a combination of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946),
Double Indemnity (1944), and Hitchcock's
Vertigo (1958), sizzled with red-hot flames
of passion and a twisting plot of murderous lust - it included a highly-charged,
sweaty scene of naive and horny attorney William Hurt outside French doors
looking lustfully in at a smoldering Kathleen Turner and then breaking in
with a chair for hot sex with the alluring, husky-voiced woman who begs:
"Do it!" (Her earlier assertion: "You're not too smart, are
you? I like that in a man") - the adolescent, coming-of-age sex comedy Porky's (1981),
including the peep hole in the girl's shower room wall scene, that launched
many other vulgar, lewd, moronic, and raunchy youth-oriented rip-offs
- Jack Nicholson's and Jessica Lange's uninhibited kitchen
sex in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
- goody-two-shoes Julie Andrews' topless showstopper in
Blake Edwards' (her husband's!) film S. O. B. (1981)
the
less-than-erotic, soft-core jungle fantasy of the camp classic Tarzan
the Ape Man (1981) from Svengali-like director John Derek, with
wife Bo Derek often in the buff as a Playboy Playmate-like Jane, advertised
as "the most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure
of all time"- the controversial love scene between Bruce Dern and Maud
Adams in Tattoo (1981)
- Annette O'Toole's semi-nude, after-hours "quick dip"
in a gym pool where she is terrorized by a snarling unseen cat, and feline
Nastassja Kinski's naked stalking through the woods, nude house wanderings,
and bondage love-making with John Heard with her wrists tied back to bedposts
in director Paul Schrader's updated Cat People (1982) - advertised
as "an erotic fantasy for the animal in us all"
- a film with lots of typical teenaged sexual behavior in
the 80s, including Jennifer Jason Leigh's awkward, uncomfortable, and unglamorous
loss of her virginity to an older boy, and Phoebe Cates' fantasy dream-girl
emergence from a backyard swimming pool when she opens up the top of her
bright-red two-piece bikini from the middle in Amy Heckerling's Fast
Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
the realistic and sexually explicit love scene in which Debra Winger wriggled
and straddled atop Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)- Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly as young, taut-bodied,
competitive runners, with a steam room scene of naked women athletes in
director Robert Towne's lesbian-tinged Personal Best (1982)
- a love triangle between Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah,
and Valerie Quennessen with lots of trim beautiful bodies, sun-bathing,
love-making, and sex on a 'fun and sun' Greek island in Randal Kleiser's
Summer Lovers (1982) - with the tagline - "Anything can happen
under the sun"
- Dustin Hoffman as a strong woman in drag in Tootsie
(1982)
- the revealing bedroom scene between football star Tom
Cruise and hometown girl Lea Thompson in All The Right Moves (1983)
- the frequent nakedness of a French student (Valerie Kaprisky)
and small-time crook (Richard Gere), including their shower and love-making
scenes in the inferior remake Breathless (1983)
Alex
Owens' (Jennifer Beals) neat removal of her black bra from under her loose
gray sweatshirt, and the suggestive lobster-eating scene in which the gorgeous
Beals (dressed in a black tux with just the front piece of a white shirt
and cuffs without sleeves) slowly nibbles and sucks soft pieces of seafood
while asking: "What turns you on?...Do you like phone booths?...You
probably just like doing it in bed, right?" as she moves her leg up
under the table to tantalizingly touch Michael Nouri's crotch with her toes
in Flashdance (1983)- the soft-focus writhings in the steamy lesbian love scene
between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in the vampirish The Hunger
(1983)
- Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear and singing karaoke-style,
and the intensely erotic scene when he learns the tricks of the trade in
an daringly-exhibitionist (and risky), late-night, elevated Chicago train
ride with beguiling, heart-of-gold hooker Rebecca DeMornay in Risky Business
(1983)
- voyeur Craig Wasson watching his shapely neighbor's nightly
striptease through a telescope and Melanie Griffith cast as a porn actress
in Brian de Palma's Body Double (1984)
- director John Derek's semi-erotic, soft-core Bolero
(1984), released to capitalize on his wife's (Bo Derek) numerous hot
sex scenes
Ken
Russell's unrated Crimes of Passion (1984), with Kathleen Turner
as a fashion designer by day, and a kinky prostitute by night- the campy horror film Re-Animator (1984), with the
ghoulish scene of a re-animated doctor's head making love to a naked Barbara
Crampton
- William Hurt in a Best Actor-winning role as a homosexual
inmate in a Brazilian prison in Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman
(1985)
- the sexy disrobing of full-bodied, young blonde Kelly Preston
in the teen sex comedy Mischief (1985)
- Harrison Ford being allowed to witness Amish widow Kelly
McGillis bathing in Witness (1985)
- the opening four minutes - an explicit, revealing and extended
love-making scene with the ardent writhings of two lovers, Beatrice Dalle
(Betty) and Jean-Hugues Anglade (Zorg) in the French erotic drama Betty
Blue (1986)
- the erotic love-making between Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella
Rosselini on blue silk sheets, her disturbing obsesssive sex with blackmailing,
gas-inhaling Dennis Hopper - and later a humiliating scene in which Rosselini's
catatonic, bruised and naked self wanders out of the dark in David Lynch's
Blue Velvet (1986)
Mickey
Rourke's question: "Does this excite you?" before caressing blindfolded
Kim Basinger's naked body with melting ice cubes; also one olive, a bowl
of maraschino cherries, one cherry tomato, a pint of strawberries, one glass
of champagne, two spoonfuls of Vick's cough syrup, a forkful of cold spiral
pasta, a spoonful of cherry Jello, four jalapeno peppers, one glass of milk,
a bottle of sparkling water, and gobs of honey for Kim Basinger with her
eyes closed - to the tune of Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love"; and
the steamy sex scenes behind a giant roof-top clock-face and in a rainy
brick stairway in the soft-porn 9 1/2 Weeks (1986)- the mating rituals and the one night-stand of Rob Lowe
and Demi Moore in the mid-80s About Last Night... (1986), adapted
from David Mamet's hit play Sexual Perversity in Chicago
- hearing-impaired Marlee Matlin's graceful nude, underwater
swimming scene, John Hurt's assertion: "You are the most mysterious,
beautiful, angry person I have ever met," and his 'falling' in love
- and into the pool for a nude embrace in Children of a Lesser God (1986)
- Melanie Griffith as free-spirited Lulu, named after actress
Louise Brooks' femme fatale (from Pandora's Box (1929)), handcuffing
the staid and married Jeff Daniels to a motel bed and making love to him
in Something Wild (1986)
-
Alan
Parker's X-rated Angel Heart (1987) in which detective Mickey Rourke
has a steamy sex scene with Lisa Bonet
- the clumsy, but sexy scene when detective Dennis Quaid
lets down highly-repressed Ass't DA Ellen Barkin's blonde hair and caresses
her under her clothes as she nervously confesses: "I'm not very good
at this" - and then her gradual relaxation and surrender to him in
The Big Easy (1987)
- the sexy dancing scene between dance instructor Patrick
Swayze and Baby (Jennifer Grey) in Dirty Dancing (1987)
- the kitchen sink and elevator love-making scenes between
Michael Douglas (Dan) and Glenn Close (Alex), Close's threat: "I'm
not gonna be ignored, Dan," and Close's topless monologue in bed in
Fatal Attraction (1987)
- the back-seat limousine love scene between Sean Young
and Kevin Costner (with the driver glancing back) in No Way Out (1987)
- Kevin Costner painting Susan Sarandon's toenails, his
skillful undressing of her by unclipping her black stocking with one hand,
their hot bathtub sequence, Costner's speech about his belief in "long,
slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days," and other scenes
of romance and sex in unplanned ways and places in Bull Durham (1988)
-
the
bedroom scene in which Uma Thurman (in a revealing debut) removes her nightgown
to receive sexual education (training in two Latin words) from philanderer
John Malkovich - just one glimpse of the lush decadence of 18th century
France in Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
- a terrorized but strong-willed Nicole Kidman with her clothes
ripped off making love to deranged killer Billy Zane onboard a schooner
in Dead Calm (1988)
- the sexual awakening of Sherilyn Fenn in numerous hot
scenes with a carnival worker in Two Moon Junction (1988)
- the photographic nude romp of Juliette Binoche and Lena
Olin and the intriguing love triangle in The Unbearable Lightness of
Being (1988)
- the sensual scene of a sultry Michelle Pfeiffer sliding
around on top of Jeff Bridges' piano and singing 'Making Whoopee' in The
Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
- the tense, torrid tryst between Al Pacino and suspected
lonely-hearts killer seductress Ellen Barkin in Sea of Love (1989)
