They say that ‘sex sells’, but if that’s true, why has it practically disappeared from modern Hollywood filmmaking? It wasn’t always this way: romantic scene...
tl;dr: capeshit/MCU/nerds/streaming killed sex in movie theaters.
I only guess I really care about it in the field of Star Wars. The conception of romance and the themes of exploration, adventure and rebellion are tied together in my head pretty strongly.
The OT had a lot of sexuality in its undertones. I don't think it was necessarily written into it and I'm far from the first person to mention it. The other movies lack that because they lack any humanity at all. Also you had Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher's chemistry which really brings it all home. To notice that potential in two actors and to work with it requires being anyone but George Lucas or Disney's product line.
The OT was pretty nice in this field to me honestly, I dont really want like a sex scene or anything, just romance! I want the characters to be fully realized, and that means romantic intentions and gestures, Luke and Han have great tension with Leia right at the beginning of Episode 5. I guess I'm also the odd one out when I say that the Anakin and Padme scenes are probably the best or at least the most stand out thing from Episode 2, even with all the stilted performances and dialogue, I think it does a pretty good job portraying 2 emotionally stunted individuals finding some commonality with each other.
Andor felt like it did the sex stuff wrong, Or at least had it in the wrong places with characters with zero chemistry.
The couple at the beginning was pretty lifeless.
Andor scoring babes at the vacation planet is basically a cut away and isnt consistent with his character
The lesbian couple hate each other and dont even demonstrate any love from what I remember and are in the process of breaking up (cool I guess, but not for ancillary characters?)
And finally the one that would have made me laugh and seemed most appropriate was the imperial freaks at the end should have immediately gone at each other, but that tension in that scene melts away to nothing.
I only guess I really care about it in the field of Star Wars. The conception of romance and the themes of exploration, adventure and rebellion are tied together in my head pretty strongly.
The OT had a lot of sexuality in its undertones. I don't think it was necessarily written into it and I'm far from the first person to mention it. The other movies lack that because they lack any humanity at all. Also you had Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher's chemistry which really brings it all home. To notice that potential in two actors and to work with it requires being anyone but George Lucas or Disney's product line.
The OT was pretty nice in this field to me honestly, I dont really want like a sex scene or anything, just romance! I want the characters to be fully realized, and that means romantic intentions and gestures, Luke and Han have great tension with Leia right at the beginning of Episode 5. I guess I'm also the odd one out when I say that the Anakin and Padme scenes are probably the best or at least the most stand out thing from Episode 2, even with all the stilted performances and dialogue, I think it does a pretty good job portraying 2 emotionally stunted individuals finding some commonality with each other.
Do I have good news for you about andor
This applies to everything wrong with Star Wars and also some stuff that is totally fine but fuck it, Andor is better.
Andor felt like it did the sex stuff wrong, Or at least had it in the wrong places with characters with zero chemistry.
The couple at the beginning was pretty lifeless. Andor scoring babes at the vacation planet is basically a cut away and isnt consistent with his character The lesbian couple hate each other and dont even demonstrate any love from what I remember and are in the process of breaking up (cool I guess, but not for ancillary characters?)
And finally the one that would have made me laugh and seemed most appropriate was the imperial freaks at the end should have immediately gone at each other, but that tension in that scene melts away to nothing.
I feel like I interpreted each one of those things differently
Bix and Timm was awkward because Timm was hiding a major secret
Let Andor be a little slutty. And also he has intense chemistry with Bix and Brasso
The lesbian couple don't hate each other, they love each other and they want their lives to have different trajectories, and that's causing tension
The sexual tension in the Dedra Incel boy scene was present, but entirely within Syril Carn's head