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There is no unified statement about the overview of love movies. On the one hand, love movies are not a genre that can be conceptualized.
Unlike the cowboys in the western movies or the screams in the horror movies, there is a set of unspoken rules between the audience and the creator.
On the other hand, most of the love movies are artistic movies, and most of them are influenced by European literature and film style, and their commerciality is almost zero.
Love movies are naturally inseparable from the words love and color. The so-called love refers to the erotic topics touched or discussed in the film. The so-called color is either emotional desire or sensory stimulation .
“The Gangster and My 365 Days”
Therefore, some love movies are mainly based on love (middle-aged men and girls in Lolita), some are based on The Lord (the exquisite human body in “Beauty”), and the latter are mostly given the title of soft pornography.
For example, “God creates a woman” tailor-made by Roger Vadim for Brigitte Bardot, which triggered the name of the former “sexy kitten”, as well as “Fang Fang” played by Sophie Marceau “, the goddess in the film by way of bathing, dancing and so on to show off sexy.
“God Creates Women”
Leave aside the hardcore porn movies (that is, adult movies, commonly known as A films) that are purely sexually aroused. Usually, people are easily confused. They are actually ordinary love movies and soft porn movies.
In 1972, a “Deep Throat” shocked the United States, madly raking in more than 40 million box office at a production cost of 25,000 US dollars, and also caused a wave of pornographic movies to occupy the cinema.
Erotic movies have seen signs of entering the mainstream, eager to move, but eventually lost to the resistance of the moral guards.
“Deep Throat”
The 1973 “Miller Case” gave birth to three criteria for identifying “obscene works”. Under the filter of the criteria, those with sexual content, but at the same time, were found to have “serious literature, Films with “artistic, political, or scientific value” survived. The hardcore pornographic films headed by “Deep Throat” were rushed back underground.
Italian director Tinto Barras, who was regarded as the “erotic master” by many people, once said: “Porn makes people erection, and erotic films make people emotional.“
This sentence points out the difference between pornography and eroticism. In pornography, arousing sexual desire is the purpose, while in love movies, erotic desire is embellishment.
The former can refer to the 90s Hong Kong pornography (or three-level movie), what is full of torture, what classics, all It’s all condiments, and the audience is going for the passion in the film.
And “Love You Nine and a Half Weeks” is the representative of the latter, the emotion of the hero and heroine in the movie is the key.
People generally don’t cry for a porn movie, but they are moved by a love movie, because the latter provides not only beautiful flesh but also deep feelings.
From an artistic point of view, love movies are also enough to “completely explode” pornography. The form includes a mixture of narrative and reference in “Masked Mask”; the content includes the mockery of the middle class by “Day Beauty” .
And like “Sweet Movies”, erotic films that insinuate politics and deconstruct history are even more worth chewing.
“Sweet Movie”
Hidden crisis
ConservativesIt seems that erotic culture is a poison that hinders human progress and needs to be eliminated. But this kind of opposition cannot always completely extinguish the heat wave of love.
In 1896, the French director Eugène Pirou made a short film of less than 100 seconds. The stripper who appeared in the film caused controversy in the society. The film shows that it is more than painting and literature in spreading love. Intuitive advantage.
And hardcore porn was also born in this period. At the beginning of the twentieth century, in a German film, the scene of sex between men and women first appeared. Since then, two types of pornographic movies, soft and hard, have flourished in the “underground world” that is never seen.
“Bai Ri Mei Ren”
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Western sexual liberation movement was in full swing, and love movies also borrowed this shareholder style to usher in their best years.
The entire 1970s was a flourishing period for European love movies. Now recognized masterpieces, such as “The Last Tango in Paris”, “Midnight Gatekeeper” and “Emmanuel” are all products of that period.
“Midnight Gatekeeper”
In Hong Kong during the same period, the Fengyue films produced by Shaw Brothers are gaining momentum, from Li Hanxiang’s The Great Warlord and Fengyue Qitan”To Chu Yuan’s “Ainu”, Lü Qi’s “Danish Baby Girl”, and even later Fang Lingzheng’s “Tang Chao Hao Fang Zi”, are classic works that combine depth and ornamentality.
Most of these films are drawn from wild history and legends, starting with fragrant sex and ending with adultery.
“Tang Dynasty Hao Fang Fei”
And in Japan, the first time to break the taboo of the screen was the “Physical Market” directed by Kobayashi in 1962. This film is considered a pioneer of the pink movie.
The so-called pink movie refers to the movies that appeared a lot of naked lenses in early Japan. And one of the main reasons for the vigorous development of the Japanese erotic industry is precisely the large-scale studios such as Nikko and Toei’s involvement in pink movies.
《Fat Market》
In Hollywood, love movies have always been in a tepid state. Part of the reason is the rise of video tapes, which provides a more private and comfortable channel for viewers who are only looking for physiological needs.
In addition, in the 1970s when the market was sluggish, Hollywood had no major studios willing to invest in such high-risk films.
Both creators and producers understand this, so love movies are reborn with other types of mashups.
Roman Romance movies (or love movies) is one of Hollywood’s most historic genres. It has been born from a very early age, but due to moral constraints, early Romance movies have been unable to express the theme of “love” in both spiritual and physical aspects. From the Puritan-style social concept to the later “Hais Code”, it is the external force suffered by the Romance film. Under the interference of these external forces, the romance in the Romance movies was raised and raised by myth, and the “dirty” sex was not revealed. But this seemingly “castrated” movie genre is surprisingly popular. In ancient times there was “Roman Holiday”, and now there is “The Theory of Everything”. In Romance movies where sex is selectively forgotten, love is Plated with a layer of gold holy cloth, shining the perfect light. In addition, those films that use the body as a selling point and show the beauty of the human body can also be regarded as variants of erotic films, except that they lack the fragrant passion, and “Spartan 300 Warriors” is a representative of this category. It is worth mentioning that the original “Hais Code” existed to control the proliferation of pornography, but American filmmakers have formed a set of “invisible formulas” under long-term inspection and control, so those meaningful Fade in or out, or hint, don’t have a taste. For example, the famous “Seven Years Itch” is a work full of sexual suggestion. Billy Wilder uses beer bottles, water pipes and other images and objects to play ambiguously. Bazin wrote in “What is a movie”: “Although pornography appears in novels and literary works, there is no significant dependency relationship between it and fiction literature. The same is true of painting…Only in terms of movies, we can say that pornographic description seems to Is the purpose and basic content.“ Simple records can magnify the meaning of pornography indefinitely, and eroticism needs to be polished with care. So, the seemingly meticulous limitation, from another perspective, enhances the creator’s narrative ability, which is why Hollywood can be so outstanding in terms of storytelling. Hidden love-X hints in the movie 1. Finger stopper bottle Source: “Itch Seven Years” (1955) Director: Billy Wilder This movie shows too many loopholes in the Hayes Code. “Old Fox” Billy Billy Wilder talks about meaty words in an unobtrusive way. For example, when opening the champagne, Richard finally opened the stopper, but his finger was inserted into the mouth of the bottle, and it could not be pulled out. It was quite like “Awu egg pretending to be a diamond diamond”. 2. Train enters the hole Source: “North-northwest” (1959) Director: Alfred Hitchcock In an interview, Xi Peng himself admits generously that the last train of the northwest to the north is the only metaphor for the movie. And this metaphor is related to the previous picture of Gary Grant and Eva Marie Center kissing on the luggage rack, the meaning is self-evident. 3. Embrace your face Source: “Alien” (1979) Director: Ridley Scott The sexual cues in “Alien” are generous and unobtrusive. In addition to the alien body called “swimming genitals”, the face-bearing insect inherits the “excellent tradition” of human beings. Especially when it inserted the genitals into the mouth of the host, it certainly completed a “variation” of mating. 4. Water snake lingering Source: “Green Snake” (1993) Director: Xu Ke As a snake full of strong hints, it is a creature that has been interpreted by people. In “The Green Snake”, Fahai meditates in the water, and the green snake swims around and flirts around him.The reference is obvious. 5. The missing gun Source: “Gun Hunting” (2002) Director: Lu Chuan For the male characters in the movie, the gun represents nothing more, especially the performance of Ma Shan who lost his soul after losing the gun, just like the runaway after losing his dignity. This article comes from the WeChat public account:Watch movie magazine (ID: moview_weekly), the original title “Lust fragrance: Romantic definition movies and Evolution “, author: East Fourth Ring Writers Association