It’s 1941 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu before the attack on Pearl Harbor when Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) beds the lonely and sexually frustrated Captain’s wife, Karen Holmes, (Deborah Kerr). The lights dim, leaving the rest of the evening to the viewer’s imagination. As Ilsa tries to explain her heartless abandonment, Rick kisses her passionately and the camera shifts to outside the room. The dialogue between ex-lovers, Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) reveal details of their intimate affair in Paris years ago and why she left him with no explanation. Romance and intrigue are the main components of this well-known classic. The morning after, Scarlett awakens with a big smile and purrs with satisfaction. In the movie’s most famous love scene, a jealous and inebriated Rhett confronts Scarlett and kisses her fiercely before he carries her up a winding staircase to their bedroom. Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) is beautiful, spoiled and manipulative but she’s no match for her third husband, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Any time is the right time to watch a true romance. Whether it’s unrequited, scandalous, seductive or stolen, romance rules. The Graduate and Ghost serve up love and lust with comic relief. Storylines like American Beauty and The English Patient offer pathos and tragedy. Big screen romance takes us from stories of innocence such as Splendor In The Grass, to the raw and no-holds-barred sexual grit depicted in Last Tango In Paris. Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in “Ghost”– 1990Īmerica loves movies and most Americans love a larger than life romance that sweeps them into a world of fantasy for 90 to 120 minutes.
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