ADSactly Cinema: The Most Iconic Movie Kisses Ever
Each generation has its own favorite stars, its own music, its own movies, which they treasure for the rest of their lives. Nobody forgets that movie that made such an impression on them or that song they used to dance to with their first love. And, of course, each generation has its favorite romance movie, a love story they identify with. Cinema is over 100 years old - just imagine how many couples went to the movies on their first dates, hands gripping each other tighter in the darkness when the on-screen couple share their first kiss. ‘That’s us’, the timid hand squeeze says. Emboldened by the events on screen, the boy in the audience dares to steal a kiss from his sweetheart,too. Ask anybody and they’ll surely remember a romantic movie that they associate with their own youth and their first love.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing'
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This post is not meant to show rankings, you cannot say the kiss in that movie was way better than the kiss in this movie, it’s just a matter of perspective. Love is too much of an intimate feeling and we cannot compare experiences. Just as every kiss is different.
Those who read this series constantly will not be surprised that the first movie to be on this list is the 1939 classic ’Gone with the Wind’. "You should be kissed, and often. And by someone who knows how", Rhett Butler tells Scarlett O’Hara. He is the only one who can understand the twice-widowed Scarlett. Unfortunately, he understands her only too well and leaves her in the end.
Roughly from the same era, but using a different war as background - ’Casablanca’ (1942), an ill-fated love. Humphrey Bogart, playing as Rick, sacrifices his own feelings for Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) as she is more important for another man now. Not without stealing a kiss from her, for old times sake, for what they had in Paris, before the Nazi invasion. As the viewers had witnessed his torment, they cannot help siding with Rick in their hearts - that is what true love looks like.
You might find the next entry a bit surprising, but one of the best remembered kisses in cinema history comes from the animated movie ‘The Lady and the Tramp’(1955). An innocent kiss between the two dogs sharing a plate of spaghetti, totally adequate for a kids’ movie, but also appealing to an adult audience. If a homeless mutt can conquer the love of a pampered spaniel, everybody can hope their dream will come true. The scene is so moving that the image of the two pups smooching has been replicated in countless movies and videos.
One of the most iconic love scenes of the 1960s is unquestionably the kiss in ’Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. Audrey Hepburn playing Holly Golightly is one of the most recognizable movie images of the 20th century. The girl who believes all she needs in life is wealth, the girl who believes no one belongs to her, just as she doesn’t belong to anyone, finds an unexpected love when she meets a man as lonely as herself. She only understands this at the end of the movie as she kisses Paul (George Peppard)in the pouring rain, holding the girl’s drenched cat between them.
’Romeo and Juliet’ (1968) needs no explanation, I guess. Hundreds of years old, Shakespeare’s play is probably the most famous love stories of all times. The screen-adaptation featuring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting was the go-to romantic movie for many of the 1960s decade.
Just two years later, in 1970 the world was swept by the ’Love Story’ mania. It’s a tragic love story, where the young female protagonist Jenny (Ali MacGraw) dies from cancer, leaving behind a devastated Oliver (Ryan O’Neal) and an audience in tears. ‘Love means never having to say I’m sorry’, the movie’s most memorable line, is today a pop culture reference. Oddly enough, Ali MacGraw once said in an interview she never understood this line. However, she did mention O’Neal was ‘a great kisser’.
For the 1980s generation, ’Dirty Dancing’(1987) was the most memorable love story. No one can ever forget Patrick Swayze dancing with Jennifer Grey to ‘(I’ve had) Time of My life), celebrating their triumphant love. It’s quite a simple story, two characters belonging to different social classes, falling in love and having to overcome prejudice and misunderstanding.
Three years later, Patrick Swayze again conquers the hearts of female moviegoers all over the world with his part in ’Ghost’. What can be more romantic than a love that defies even death. Demi Moore is in danger and her dead boyfriend cannot leave her unprotected. It is only at the end of the movie, when the danger has been eliminated, that Demi Moore can hear the voice of her beloved. He’s done his duty and he can now go to Heaven, not before sharing one last kiss with her.
There is no way one could forget ’Titanic’(1997), another love story that influenced a generation and for good reason - the young Leonardo Di Caprio, how can anyone not love him? Yet another tragic story, but then the most famous love stories never end well. The viewers know the Titanic will sink and their love is doomed, but you’d give everything for one such moment of pure happiness to make you feel ‘the king of the world’.
Superhero movies are not exactly the sort of films where you expect to find great love, but for the younger audiences the kiss in ’Spiderman’ is certainly more memorable than any of those mentioned before. The nerdy boy turned Spiderman (Tobey Maguire) is desperately in love with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and after his heroic actions he definitely deserves a bit of happiness. Incidentally, the kiss was not all that romantic as it appears on screen. Tobey Maguire explained he could hardly breathe during the filming of the scene as he was standing upside down and there was rainwater running up his nose.
Finally, there is the famous vampire saga ’Twilight’ (2008). Today’s 20-somethings grew up with the story of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) and a whole generation of teenagers sighed when they exchanged their first kiss on screen.
As I was saying in the beginning, our experiences are subjective and we all have that one movie that’s forever in our hearts, so I’m going to share with you my own favorite.
’Bobby Deerfield’, a 1977 romantic movie starring Al Pacino and Marthe Keller, which follows the same plot as ‘Love Story’, as she is ill, and she’s already dying when they meet which makes it even more tragic. One of the reasons I love this movie, besides the young Al Pacino, is the fact that it is less melodramatic as the original ‘Love Story’.
I would like to hear which is the ultimate romantic movie for you and your most memorable kiss scene? Please share in the comments below!
Post authored by: @ladyrebecca.
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I like the whole kiss selection. I think you walk from the simplest to the deepest and most ardent. In your previous post on censorship, I mentioned one of the most controversial and erotic kisses in cinema, that of The Secret of the Mountain. A kiss that dislocated more than one, but that has a lot of romantic charge. As for innocent kisses, I always remember the kiss of My Girl, when Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin join their lips out of curiosity. In particular, I'll keep Dirty Dancing. This film is emblematic for me. I remember that for a while, my friends and I wanted to dance like in this movie. Although I saw this film at home because I wasn't old enough to see it in the cinema, I enjoyed it as if I were sitting in an armchair. I love the whole soundtrack of this film (A good theme for an upcoming post). Always happy to read to you, @ladyrebecca.
Tell me about it! Couldn't get that song out of my mind for hours...
I've seen almost all those cinematic kisses, some at the very moment they became famous, but I'm left with the kiss of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. This kiss and this love built a prototype of character, of dramatic situation and complex moral understanding at the time. An entire era of cinema, literature and a genre are contained in that kiss, which made synapses with entire generations. I know that I speak with my heart a lover of the police story and film noir, and in fact, every kiss reviewed in your article does exactly what I say Casablanca's kiss does with respect to an era and an audience, but we have to admit that there is class, sensuality and evil here.
I really liked your article, @ladyrebecca. Thank you.
For me the most memorable (and heartbreaking) scene in Casablanca is the part where he recalls te moment at the train station, when he finds out she's not coming with him and he falls apart!
Oh, that's right! It's, perhaps, more touching because he's a tough guy.
Oh gosh, I didn't realise George Peppard was in Breakfast at Tiffany's! I knew him from the A-Team. Never seen the film, but looking at pictures of him in it, I'm not sure I'd have recognised him if I had.
I don't know why, but that Spider-Man kiss was quite the memorable one for me. I’m glad you reminded me of that.
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Excellent work, @ladyrebecca, interesting selection of the most iconic kisses of cinema. Two of my favorite romantic films in my youth are in this selection: Dirty Dancing and Ghost.
The most memorable kiss scene for me was the kiss in Ghost, although it was a different kiss, it was magical and touching; and musically accompanied with "Oh...my love", "I need your love"... made that movie, one of my unforgettable ones.
Beautiful memories of reviewing your publication, @ladyrebecca, thank you for that. And @adsactly for sharing quality content.
Your post presents us with a very complete cinematographic kiss gallery. I don't remember in these moments others that have marked me. I think some passionate in Sioete weeks and a half; I'm not sure if in The last tango in Paris. Anyway...but as I wrote to you in the previous post about censorship, going ahead without knowing, I always remember the emotional final scene of Cinema Paradiso when the "Toto", now an adult, sees the anthology of censored kisses of films, prepared for him by the old projectionist -already deceased- of the cinema of his village. Thanks to youtube I was able to access that scene again, and I take the abuse of placing the link here. Thanks for your pleasant post, @laduyrebecca.
Thank you so much, @josemalavem, for the video. I really enjoyed it and, indeed, it fits perfectly with the subject of this series!
I agree with your choice. the kissing scene in the Al Pacino movie in my opinion is more memorable. Especially when we know the story becomes more dramatic.
but, beyond that, we all know this scene is more intended to portray a passion for young people who are in love. Kissing as a symbol of love is not for the release of lust.
In my opinion, you can see how a post and make it well. after you post calmly the sensors in Hollywood movies, at this time you are inviting readers to discuss scenes that during the censorship period will certainly be eliminated.
The way that I think is very smart is to make a series of posts about the film
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Hello @ladyrebecca. It has been a real pleasure to read this publication. You make a wonderful account of romantic movies where the audience can stroll through different times and movie seats.
For this publication I would say that I remember, in addition to Casablanca and "We'll have Paris", Doctor Chivago, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) and Piano Lesson as the romantic movies that I really appreciate.
Doctor Chivago, an epic drama, based on the novel by Russian Boris Pasternak and starring Omar Sharif, with its 3 hours duration is an unforgettable memory of a love story.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a French musical, takes me to those loves truncated by a social reality. It is not an impossible love but a love story that had no chance of a happy ending.
Piano Lesson, film by Jane Campion, is a true jewel that love can be anywhere.
As for an unforgettable kiss in a movie ... it's hard to choose. I'm going to stay with Ghost (Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore: a kiss without borders, a kiss of love between a physical being and a spiritual entity (too many symbolisms in that scene).
Great greeting @ladyrebecca. This publication is very nice
Where are kisses from Titanic?)
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You make a perfect list of most romantic kisses ever but you forget about this one:
