The 10 Hottest Sex Scenes Ever

We’re talking Hollywood movies, of course! There are similar "hot sex scenes" in local movies (a recent one was Sharon Cuneta and Richard Gomez’s shower scene in Viva Films’ 2003 drama-romance Walang Kapalit) but we’ll list them down in a future issue.

I just got my regular supply of US movie magazines (old and new) from my old and reliable New York-based friend Raoul Tidalgo (entertainment editor and columnist of The Filipino Reporter) and, as usual, I’m sharing some goodies with Funfare readers – The 10 Hottest Sex Scenes Ever, compiled by Glenn Kenny for Premiere magazine.

Here they are (with excerpts from Kenny’s description of each scene):

1. Blow Up (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Slim David Hemmings, as a photographer who can’t get no satisfaction even in Swinging Sixties London, is doing a standard-issue fashion shoot with stick-figure-thin supermodel Verushka (as herself, of course). Bored to distraction with the standard camera-on-a-tripod setup, he goes handheld, and soon he’s straddling her as she writhes underneath him, his directions growing more explicit, her hauteur melting into something both feral and languid, his shouts metamorphosing into orgasmic moans of ecstasy...

2. Some Like It Hot (1959), directed by Billy Wilder

He disguises himself as a woman in order to escape from killer mobsters. But Tony Curtis soon finds good reason to go back to being male – he re-disguises himself as the heir to the Shell Oil fortune, the better to impress his gold-digging (or so he thinks) new colleague Sugar Kane (the luscious Marilyn Monroe). And then he pretends to be impotent – the better to maneuver her into seducing him while he’s got her on "his" yacht. (Long story) Her efforts and his resistance, intercut with real millionaire Joe E. Brown’s attempts to melt down still-in-drag Jack Lemmon, not only steam up the screen (as well as Curtis’ glasses), they prove that sex really is comedy.

3. ...And God Created Woman (1956), directed by Roger Vadim

It must have been an unbelievable sight in 1956 to see Brigitte Bardot in Cinemascope, nude from head (right side of screen) to toe (left side), sunning herself on her stomach behind a clothesline-held sheet. Such is the sex kitten’s introduction in Vadim’s she-ain’t-no-delinquent-she’s-misunderstood melodrama...Here it’s stiff bourgeois businessman Curd Jurgens, flirtatiously mocking the seemingly materialistic young Bardot with a model of a sports car and not even pretending to do the gentlemanly thing and avert his eyes as she stands to receive his "gift"...

4. Vixen (1968), directed by Russ Meyer

...One day while Judd is showering, she walks in stark naked, and asks him to soap her back. He balks, and balks and balks, and she taunts him into letting her have it, right there in the shower stall. "Come on, baby brother!" For a minute we forget these are actors, and the sense of transgression is palpable; it’s one of the most unpleasant turn-ons out there, all the more a turn-on for being so unpleasant...

5. Last Tango in Paris (1973), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

...Marlon Brando’s Paul makes very down-to-earth requests of Maria Schneider’s Jeanne, e.g., "Get the butter." But the gamin is the one who comes up with the truly crazy idea. Brando’s character is game – more pliable than he will be in later, more explicit moments, when Paul tries to dominate the young stranger he has seduced, and later still, when the poor fool has fallen in love with her. But at this moment – with the two of them facing each other, naked, bathed in improbably warm Parisian sunlight – one can almost believe in the no-names-please sexual utopia that their two erotic desperados are trying to build...

6. Body Heat (1981), directed by Lawrence Kasdan

...The shot begins with the camera lingering on an overflowing ashtray; we hear box springs being tested and breath running out. The camera moves up, and there’s Matty (Kathleen Turner), on her stomach, face turned to the camera. The first word she says – and she’s barely able to speak at this point – is "Don’t." The second word, which takes what seems like an eternity to spill out, is "Stop." Do we have to spell it out for you? The following shot of the couple (with William Hurt) in an ice-filled bathtub could fill in the blanks for those who don’t get it."

7. The Hunger (1983), directed by Tony Scott

...This scene, in which a centuries-old vampire played by Catherine Deneuve defeats the scruples of a reluctant would-be disciple (Susan Sarandon), needs zero special pleading. It’s a favorite bit of homoerotica for straight men, true, but gay women also find it moltenly hot ...

8. Walkabout (1971), directed by Nicolas Roeg

...Teen girl swims nude in a lush outback pond when the teen aborigine escorting her and her brother spies her, and is transfixed with primordial lust...The girl, graceful Jenny Agutter, swims, observed by her brother (the angelic Lucien John, Roeg’s son), who then goes off to join the aborigine, who is hunting for food. Roeg intercuts the tranquil views of innocent eros with blunt moments of spearing and jacking; the aborigine and the girl never appear in the same shot in this sequence, but it’s here that we learn that she’s gotten into his blood, fatally.

9. Mulholland Drive (2001), directed by David Lynch

...One could watch this scene a thousand times and still not be able to pinpoint who initiates its amorous component. After, um, Betty (Naomi Watts) helps, um, Rita (Laura Elena Harring) devise a – gee, is it her third? – persona by putting a slivery-blond wig on her, the duo’s rompings as would-be girl detectives turn even more strangely desperate, and poignant, and the pair find themselves achingly alone, and achingly, well, horny...

10. Sex and Lucia (2001), directed by Julio Medem

...Lucia (Paz Vega), who must represent some sort of Platonic ideal of sexuality, semistalks novelist Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa, who isn’t bad-looking himself) and, once she’s able to have a conversation with him, convinces him that she should move in with him...This particular sequence – to my mind a lot more moving than the Hollywood-processed-cheese striptease of 9 1/2 Weeks – represents the height of their domestic bliss...

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