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.
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.
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.