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American Pie. Eyes Wide Shut. Basic Instinct. These films have one thing in common: instantly iconic sex scenes. Actually, they have one more thing in common: said sex scenes almost didn't make the final cut thanks to the MPAA having no chill whatsoever when it comes to people doing the deed with baked goods and/or participating in orgies. On that note, here are 11 famous sex scenes that almost got left on the cutting room floor.
You know the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut ? Well, it was a whole thing . Turns out the original group sex extravaganza was very risqué, and in order for it to stay in the movie, Warner Brothers digitally added extras whose sole purpose was to block out graphic content. If your mission in life is to see the orgy in all its un-edited glory, the DVD was released back in 2007 and has you covered. Bless up.
Speaking of orgies, American Psycho features group sex between Patrick Bateman and two prostitutes—which was so graphic that censors threatened not to give the movie an R rating if it stayed in. The scene ended up in the movie, but only after some careful editing (18 seconds of sex ended up being chopped for the final version).
It's a truth universally acknowledged that one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history involves Jason Biggs having sex with an apple pie in the aptly named American Pie —and censors were not having it. While the MPAA ultimately allowed the scene to stay in, they asked for it to contain less, um, thrusting.
Chloë Sevigny's orgasm in Boys Don't Cry —courtesy of Hilary Swank—almost didn't make the cut because apparently the MPAA thought it went on for too long. (God forbid a woman enjoy sex for more than two seconds!) "I was like, 'Who’s ever been hurt by an orgasm that was too long?" said director Kimberly Pierce during the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated . "I looked at Lana’s orgasm and I was like, 'Oh, this is totally about Lana’s pleasure, so there’s something about that that’s scaring them, that’s unnerving them.'"
In case you missed it, Robert Downey Jr. and Heather Graham participated in an oral sex scene that was almost cut from Two Girls and a Guy . And speaking of cuts, the MPAA required a whopping 10 edits before finally letting the scene live in peace. "I don't think you'd be able to know the difference," director James Toback said . "The length of the shots has been trimmed, but not a single shot was taken out."
Anyone who's seen Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct sex scene is probably still lifting their jaw off the ground—it's that intense. So intense, in fact, that the MPAA simply could not even (you're probably sensing a theme here), and threatened not to fork over that coveted R rating. Director Paul Verhoeven ended up keeping the scene in after some light edits, saying , "Actually, I didn't have to cut many things. But I replaced things from different angles, made it a little more elliptical, a bit less direct." Naturally, the director's cut was released on DVD and features the sex scene in its original glory.
Okay, fine, it might not be entirely accurate to say Requiem for a Dream's sex scene was almost cut for being too sexy , but it was almost cut for being too...intense. Which, if you've seen this movie, isn't a surprise. The film ended up being released without a rating thanks in part to the drama surrounding the sex scene, and director Darren Aronofsky (otherwise known as Jennifer Lawrence's ex-boyfriend) had this to say: "The MPAA has a place in the world, but definitely has to be re-thought. It is being run by people who really don’t know what the pulse is and where people’s minds are right now."
In hilarious news, Top Gun's original cut didn't contain any sex scenes, and test audiences were so horrified by this fact that an intimate scene between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis had to be filmed during reshoots. Give the people what they want! (Also, hilariously McGillis had already dyed her hair for another role, which is why the scene was shot in silhouette.)
Blue Valentine features an oral sex scene between Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, which is extremely graphic and also extremely vital to the film's realistic portrayal of a relationship. (Side note: how often do we see depictions of men performing oral sex on women during movies? Not as often as we should thanks to sexism.) The production company fought to keep the scene in, and Ryan Gosling's thoughts on the matter were as follows: "There's plenty of oral sex scenes in a lot of movies, where it's a man receiving it from a woman—and they're R-rated. Ours is reversed and somehow it's perceived as pornographic. Black Swan has an oral scene between two women and that's an R rating, but ours is between a husband and his wife and that's NC-17?"
Not so shockingly, censors had some issues with the explicit sex scenes in Zack and Miri Make a Porno —about two friends who, in case you hadn't guessed, make porn together. Instead of cutting the controversial scenes from the movie, director Kevin Smith appealed the rating by arguing that the sex was all in the name of LOLs—and he won his case. "It's really crazy to me that Hostel is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and shit like that," actor Seth Rogan said . "But you can't show two people having sex—that's too much."
Trailer for Blue Valentine (2010) starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams
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Derek Cianfrance dared to portray sex with any sense of realism, both physically and emotionally, only to quickly get slapped with an NC-17 rating for showing Michelle Williams’ character, Cindy, on the receiving end of oral sex. “The sex felt real - it wasn't sexy or 'a sex scene', and that's why we got into trouble,” co-star Ryan Gosling remarked to The Observer at the time. “You shouldn't be penalised for doing a good job.” After successfully appealing against the MPAA’s decision, Blue Valentine reached cinemas as an R, thankfully allowing mainstream audiences to see how emotionally complex a matter sex can actually be, especially in a broken down marriage like the one shared by its lead characters.
Gina Prince-Bythewood has masterfully shown Hollywood how cinema can portray realistic sex without any loss of romanticism or intimacy. That’s especially true of her directorial debut, 2000’s Love & Basketball, in which Monica (Sanaa Lathan) loses her virginity to childhood sweetheart, Quincy (Omar Epps). The moment is wonderfully tender, aided by Maxwell’s cover of Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work”, while being one of the rare films that actually shows the use of a condom. “The only note that I ever got from the studio during the filmmaking process was that when I shot that scene, they looked at the dailies and they said, they didn’t think she was enjoying it enough,” Prince-Bythewood told The Huffington Post. “And my argument was, it’s the first time and despite what the male fantasy might be, it’s not that great.”
Alfonso Cuarón’s raucous classic inverts the American sex comedy: Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are stereotypical, sex-obsessed young men distraught at the concept of their girlfriends leaving the country. Choosing to live as bachelors, they befriend an older woman (Maribel Verdú), who seduces both of them. Yet, the film drives them towards one, real truth: their own bisexuality, finally freed during the film’s famous threesome. Though Y Tu Mamá También's conclusion is tragic - Julio and Tenoch's reject their own truth, turn their backs on each other, and suppress their feelings - their threesome still marks a moment of genuine, harmonious sensuality.
God’s Own Country star Alec Secareanu admitted he was initially “very afraid” of the kinds of scenes he would be tasked with filming for the gay drama film. “But the way each character has sex tells a lot about them; the way that they develop their relationship,” he told Attitude. The first sexual encounter between Secareanu’s character Gheorghe and Johnny (Josh O’Connor) is quick, aggressive and with little intimacy. As Johnny slowly learns to open up to Gheroghe, their second encounter is far more romantic; intense in a different way to the first. Both actors later told of how they developed a close bond in real life after working together on-screen.
A film that finds its eroticism in small gestures - in the languid rest of a glove, in a glance, shared across a crowded room - when it comes to director Todd Haynes actually filming the first time Therese (Rooney Mara) and Carol (Cate Blanchett) have sex, their chemistry is already so palpable that the moment feels nothing short of explosive. “It's very much like shooting a musical number,” Haynes told E!News of the scene. “You start the music and basically you just go and the camera finds the moments and the beats. And we had some amazing material with these two women to work with.”
Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winner is one of the most tender depictions of yearning in modern cinema. Its protagonist Chiron (played by Ashton Sanders here, at other points by Alex R. Hibbert and Trevante Rhodes) experiences his first sexual encounter with fellow student Kevin (Jharrel Jerome) on a quiet, isolated beach. Their fumbling may pay testament to the awkwardness of a teenager’s first experiences, but Jenkins’ approach also gives the moment a profound grace, and an acknowledgement of how it will come to shape Chiron’s own view of himself. “It’s the first time I filmed a sex scene. It’s the first time these actors had performed a sex scene,” Jenkins told Entertainment Weekly of the scene. “It’s not gratuitous. It’s very delicate in keeping with most of the film, but it kept me up at night. I really wanted to get the feelings of that first sort of sexual expression, and I wanted to get it right… but then, when we got to shoot it, it rolled off like butter.”
Much like Blue Valentine, Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 classic swiftly faced controversy due to a sex scene so emotionally faithful (while also depicting a female character, Julie Christie’s Laura, receiving oral sex), that it caused clashes with censors. A grieving couple desperately holding onto the shreds of their marriage after the death of their child, Laura and John (Donald Sutherland)’s raw emotions and vulnerability in this moment are famously intercut with post-coital preparations to go to dinner - an attempt, in fact, to satiate censors. Christie herself admitted the film’s innovations made the scene difficult to film since, “There were no available examples, no role models ... I just went blank and Nic [Roeg] shouted instructions."
Sex is funny, sometimes hilarious. There’s no getting through this list without acknowledging that fact, and there’s no better film to summarise it than Team America: World Police and its infamous puppet intercourse, enthusiastically filing through every sexual position in the book. As puppet creator Stephen Chiodo noted to MovieWeb, it’s the scene’s bracing artifice that’s actually the key to its humour. As he explained, “The more realistic it became, the less funny it was. The more axes of movement, the more lifelike movement we gave the puppets during the sex scene, it just wasn’t funny. But when you had them stiff like dolls, kind of rutting, it just was funny.”
Trust David Lynch to create a highly-charged sex scene that inevitably only becomes part of the web created to deceive and befuddle us. Rita (Laura Harring) and Betty (Naomi Watts) may consummate their bubbling affections for each other in a sensuous, dreamlike manner - but who is Rita in this moment? Who is Betty? Is this encounter real or imagined? This moment of lush, Hollywood perfection only creates the set up for Mulholland Drive’s earth-shattering twist. Betty is now Diane, and her own sexual experience couldn’t be any more different: a tear-soaked, anguished masturbation scene that seems exemplary of her own broken soul.
One of the finest examples of the erotic thriller, director Adrian Lyne depicts the extramarital affair in its full urgency, its entire spectrum of conflicted emotions, as suburban housewife Connie (Diane Lane) becomes enraptured by a handsome young Frenchman (Olivier Martinez). Their initial encounter is at first tenuous, tender, before a hunger seems to consume Connie and her guilt is momentarily forgotten in the throes of extreme passion, only for them to creep slowly back on the train ride home. The memory of its erotic power, the searing regret; those feelings soon become feverishly intertwined.
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What makes the perfect sex scene? The pure eroticism? Its emotional undercurrents? The shift and flow of the camera? Of course, there’s no real answer.
Our concept of how sex should work on film speaks to so many variants: what personally gets us hot under the collar, whether we seek the fantastic or the realist, or how these scenes should tie in emotionally with the rest of the film. A great sex scene can be raw and passionate, languid and romantic; it can be tinged with an air of sadness and longing, or even downright hilarious.
The criteria are pretty much wide open. So, in that light, here are the candidates for some of the best sex scenes ever put to film:
Derek Cianfrance dared to portray sex with any sense of realism, both physically and emotionally, only to quickly get slapped with an NC-17 rating for showing Michelle Williams’ character, Cindy, on the receiving end of oral sex. “The sex felt real – it wasn’t sexy or ‘a sex scene’, and that’s why we got into trouble,” co-star Ryan Gosling remarked to The Observer at the time. “You shouldn’t be penalised for doing a good job.”
After successfully appealing against the MPAA’s decision, Blue Valentine reached cinemas as an R, thankfully allowing mainstream audiences to see how emotionally complex a matter sex can actually be, especially in a broken down marriage like the one shared by its lead characters.
Gina Prince-Bythewood has masterfully shown Hollywood how cinema can portray realistic sex without any loss of romanticism or intimacy. That’s especially true of her directorial debut, 2000’s Love & Basketball , in which Monica (Sanaa Lathan) loses her virginity to childhood sweetheart, Quincy (Omar Epps).
The moment is wonderfully tender, aided by Maxwell’s cover of Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work”, while being one of the rare films that actually shows the use of a condom.
"The only note that I ever got from the studio during the filmmaking process was that when I shot that scene, they looked at the dailies and they said, they didn’t think she was enjoying it enough," Prince-Bythewood told The Huffington Post . "And my argument was, it’s the first time and despite what the male fantasy might be, it’s not that great."
Alfonso Cuarón’s raucous classic inverts the American sex comedy: Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are stereotypical, sex-obsessed young men distraught at the concept of their girlfriends leaving the country. Choosing to live as bachelors, they befriend an older woman (Maribel Verdú), who seduces both of them. Yet, the film drives them towards one, real truth: their own bisexuality, finally freed during the film’s famous threesome.
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Though Y Tu Mamá También 's conclusion is tragic - Julio and Tenoch's reject their own truth, turn their backs on each other, and suppress their feelings – their threesome still marks a moment of genuine, harmonious sensuality.
God’s Own Country star Alec Secareanu admitted he was initially “very afraid” of the kinds of scenes he would be tasked with filming for the gay drama film. “But the way each character has sex tells a lot about them; the way that they develop their relationship,” he told Attitude .
The first sexual encounter between Secareanu’s character Gheorghe and Johnny (Josh O’Connor) is quick, aggressive and with little intimacy. As Johnny slowly learns to open up to Gheroghe, their second encounter is far more romantic; intense in a different way to the first. Both actors later told of how they developed a close bond in real life after working together on-screen.
A film that finds its eroticism in small gestures - in the languid rest of a glove, in a glance, shared across a crowded room – when it comes to director Todd Haynes actually filming the first time Therese (Rooney Mara) and Carol (Cate Blanchett) have sex, their chemistry is already so palpable that the moment feels nothing short of explosive.
"It's very much like shooting a musical number," Haynes told E!News of the scene . "You start the music and basically you just go and the camera finds the moments and the beats. And we had some amazing material with these two women to work with."
Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winner is one of the most tender depictions of yearning in modern cinema. An examination of identity, sexuality, and family as witnessed across three different stages of life, its protagonist Chiron (played by Ashton Sanders here, at other points by Alex Hibbert and Trevante Rhodes) experiences his first sexual encounter with fellow student Kevin (Jharrel Jerome) on a quiet, isolated beach. Their fumbling may pay testament to the awkwardness of a teenage
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