Monday, 16 August 2010

• The 10 Best Love Scenes Ever Created

  
  
  I know, right?  WHAT a cheesy post topic....but this is Datingish, and we like cheesy because we are so aware of the fact that the only thing to love is love itself.
  
  And when you can't have the real thing, it's really nice to watch it.  Some movies do it well, and some just don't.  I have thought of the 10 best love scenes I have ever seen.  I'm pretty sure hearts can physically go up a few degrees in temperature when they're happy, because I swear that's what I feel every time I watch these. And I've gone to the trouble of watching them over and over and over - believe me. 
  
  WARNING:  Not all of these are love scenes in the classical sense.  Many of them are just scenes that truly remind me of the real thing, the way it happens in real life.  Which is so much better than the tacky movie stuff.
  
  Alright, here we go:
  
  1.  FROM: SEVEN POUNDS
  
  
  
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  The entire climax of the movie is hopelessly love-impounded - and I do love me some Will Smith.  He is in love with Rosario Dawson, who has a heart condition.  He is lying in bed with her, and asks her to marry him.  She starts crying because although she's so happy, and realizes how lucky she is to be popped the question under genuine circumstances, she has a 1% chance of surviving the rest of the year.  That 1% depends on getting a donor, and the line is long at the hospital - unless, of course, someone donates for her specifically. 
  
  Will Smith is so upset by her defeated reaction that he jumps out of bed when she is asleep, and charges straight to the hospital.  Covered in rain, he finds her doctor and interrogates her real chances of survival - it really is about 1%, probably less than that.  He goes home and commits suicide, so that she can have his heart.  Despite it's morbid qualities, the scene wherein both he and Rosario are rushed to the hospital in a frenzy of white coats, blood, and operating devices and she emerges alive with a large scar across her chest is compact with so much love that I really can't find the right word to do its description justice.
  
  
  2.  FROM: WHERE THE HEART IS
  
  
  
  (**Spoiler Alert!!)
  
  Forney is a man who has been in love with Nobilee since he assisted her to deliver her baby while she was living alone in a Wal-Mart.  He has helped her raise her kid for 5 years, and loves Americus like his own.  Despite the fact that he is truly and convincingly 100% in love with Nobilee, she tells him she doesn't love him "that way" because she fears that she simply isn't good enough for him.  He leaves their small town to finish school, and she changes her mind - she meets him on his campus one random day to explain why she said what she said.
  
  When she says "I thought you deserved better," he looks at her with the softest, most caring and forgiving expression in his eyes, gently takes her face in his and says in slight horror: "Better than YOU? There IS nothing better than you, Nobilee."  And they kiss.
  
  3.  FROM: MOULIN ROUGE
  
  
  
  The "Roxanne" remix is a wonderful song for the movie in general, but the sections of the song where Ewen McGregor sings are just romance taken to a new level of ferocity.  He seems so uncontrollably angry at how his love is treated, so excruciatingly angry that he's had to share her unwillingly with such a royal twat.  If you have ever shared someone that you are in love with, this is a good imitation of the real thing, alright. 
  
  The lyrics are as follows: Why does my heart cry?/Feelings I can't fight/ You're free to leave me but just don't deceive me and please, believe me when I say I love you.  His voice is also fabulous.
  
  4.  FROM: THE SIXTH SENSE
  
  
  
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  Yes, I'm dead serious (haha, get it?).  But re-watching that movie recently, it wasn't the freakiness of the ghosts that I took away from it - it was the final scene.  Bruce Willis realizing he's dead at the end, to be, is just so fricken ridden with an irresistibly romantic twinge.  The whole time that he has thought he and his wife are growing apart, she has been missing him whole-heartedly and wishing he was still with her. 
  
  When he realizes this - that despite trying to date again, she watches their wedding video every night, she sleeps with his old wedding ring in her hand, and she cannot see him sitting next to her in the room - he realizes that if he really loves her, he has to leave her alone and let her move on.  He cries about it, he rages about it, but then, with deep regret, he bids her a permanent good-bye.  It's so sad, and so beautiful.
  
  
  5. FROM: WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?
  
  
  
  (NOTE: Above is not technically the scene to which I'm referring, but it's also cute.)
  
  Oh, God, the whole story between Gilbert and his girlfriend just seems such a perfect depiction of love.  I think the best part - even though there are more sexually ridden scenes - is the first time his girlfriend kisses him.  I think it's so hot and unusual how genuinely nervous he seems, like he's thought about making the move 100 times but never did.  She pulls his hair back, goes for it, smiles, and goes for it again. He looks so shocked and happy.  It's so endearing.
  
  
  6. FROM: GHOST
  
  
  
  I know, it's a little weird when you imagine what the scene is supposed to look like - Demi Moore dancing around a room with Woopie Goldberg, who has been physically taken over by the ghost of Demi's dead husband, Patrick Swayze.  Since the scene is shown as happening between Demi and Patrick, it is absolutely adorable -he visits her, using someone else's body so that he can touch her again.  Even though she technically can't see him, he's so happy just to have the opportunity to hold her one more time. 
  
  I imagine that when someone who was in love with someone else knows they will die, they'd give anything to know they'd be able to see their loved one once more.  The loved one left alive spends the rest of their life longing for that same wish to come true.  This scene makes that wish, for a brief moment, come true.
  
  
  7.  FROM: WHITE OLEANDER
  
  
  
  Again, I just love the whole love story between Alyson Lohman's and Patrick Fugit's characters so much that it's tough to pick a favorite scene, but I think it would have to be their first kiss on the beach.  He has clearly been observing her both up close and at a distance for a while (the Aqualung song "Strange and Beautiful" comes to mind), but he was unclear on her level of interest as well as her sexual orientation, and therefore never dared to push her limits too far.  After having a wonderful day together, set apart from all of the other kids from the group home in which they live, they are sitting on the beach. 
  
  Completely un-romantically, she makes the decision, and says: "I'm not gay, you know."  This is a response to a question she had heretofore avoided answering. He responds, in noticeably high and excited spirits, "Yeah, I know."  Blushing, he goes in for the kiss.  It's as awkward and unnerving as first kisses always are in real life, but he is so absolutely enthralled by it that the excitement is still contagious.
  
  8.  FROM: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
  
  
  
  Johnny Depp is pretty fail-proof in the romantic department, I suppose.  This story, like many of his movies, gets props for uniqueness as well - love in real life is no ball before midnight.  It's also intriguing to me that the girl kind of plays the hero for the guy - she has to take care of him and look out for him constantly, because his ignorance about people and the workings of the world put him in a very vulnerable position. 
  
  My favorite scene is NOT the one where Winona Ryder dances under the snow created by Johnny's ice-cutting sculptures, although it is a wonderful scene nonetheless.  Mine would definitely be right after that, right when Johnny's about to leave her house forever.  She says "Hold me," and they hug without kissing, and he's so careful and hesitant because it's likely the first time he's ever hugged anyone at all.  Both of their faces are so painfully sad, and there is something inexplicably relatable about that expressed feeling of regret - that something could have been and definitely was, but for some inevitable reason must be discontinued.  Loving someone means letting them go, and so on - the stuff that we know makes life a little tougher sometimes.
  
  
  9.  FROM: TITANIC
  
  
  
  I mean, I had to, right?  We can't leave it out.  Yes, it's that scene where Leonardo gives Kate the seat atop a floating wooden door and despite the freezing cold water, holds her hand all night until his death.  I don't need to elaborate upon why that's heart-wrenchingly beautiful.  You all know, and words don't do it justice anyway.
  
  
  10. FROM: THE NOTEBOOK
  
  
  
  The two have spent the entire day falling back in love after 10 years apart, and Ally finally pops the angry question - "Why didn't you write me?  It wasn't over for me!"  And Noah, the absurdly attractive hero, responds that, in fact, he wrote 365 letters - one every day of the first year that they were apart - before he gave up (we later found out that our heroine's mother had taken and hidden the mail).  With the passionate intensity of someone who truly is head-over-heels in love, Noah responds: "It wasn't over for me!  It still isn't over!" He beelines through the pouring rain and kisses her with strength and ferocity, and then they go back to his casa to get down and dirty.
  
  
  What love scenes in movies do you think reflect the real thing?
  

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