welcome to frame by frame, a series dedicated to the craft of film making. now, i know a three letter word that gets everyone's attention. sex. we all know the cinema and coitus have a long standing relationship. and the study of that relationship is called scopophilia,
Game Of Thrones Gay Scene, a term that refers to how sex scenes are shot. and today, i'm gonna show you the cinematic approaches taken once the clothes come off. just try and keep your pants on, okay? "whoops, i guess they just slipped off."
so here's the skinny on scopophilia. it's a greek term meaning "to derive pleasure from watching". now in film theory, scopophilia deals with how we watch. and that "how" hasn't changed much since the 1933 silent film, 'ecstasy' it's celluloid claim to fame: cinema's first sex scene take a peek the act takes place entirely off screen, and entirely in close-up here it was done to appease the censors
but the relationship between the close up and the sex scene doesn't end there. in fact close ups are used so often in carnal content that is started raising some eyebrows. the academics even came up with a phrase for the connection. they dubbed it the 'male gaze'. now, don't confuse this with the internet culture's take on the term. the phrase as i'm using it now was originally coined by feminist film critics in the 1970's. it refers to the belief that most movies take a heterosexual male point of view. and what do most straight men want to see?
"mama" [slap] sorry, what were we talking about? oh yeah... 'male gaze' so the belief is that the close up dissects the female form. we see parts of a woman, not the woman herself. visually she becomes more of an object than a person now some film makers have taken the 'male gaze' to an extreme. not to exploit it but to start a discussion about its use.
like spike lee did in his 1986 film "she's gotta have it" "boning, what... having sex... boning..." the story spins around three men sleeping with one woman named nola. the guys see her as nothing more than an object to be won. so spike shows this objectification visually how? by breaking up nola's form with extreme close ups. especially during sex. [nola laughs] "nola"
"nola..." other film makers use sexually charged imagery plus the intimacy of the close up, to suggest explicit acts like adrian lyne did in his 1986 film "nine and a half weeks" yet, what about using close ups not to focus on the act of sex but the participants reaction to it? we saw this objective use of the close up in 'ecstasy' but there the technique was used out of necessity. in his 1997 film 'boogie nights' however p.t. anderson wasn't afraid to show nudity
but he decided to shoot much of dirk's first sex scene using close-ups of faces. not naked bodies. which forces us to watch the emotional impact instead of the physical. here, for example, we can see just how awkward dirk feels performing in his first on screen sex scene. camera motion can highlight characters subjective experiences as well. take paul and jean's first encounter in bernardo bertolucci's infamous 1972 film "last tango in paris" we start wide as the love-making begins the camera pushes in as they both loose themselves in the moment then we pull back after climax
so the move charts the beginning, middle, and end of the intimacy between the lovers. the camera move becomes an emotional road map instead of a glaring eye searching for some skin. now that the romance is gone, we should talk. let's say you're a film maker about to shoot a sex scene. what approach should you take? well, as we've seen, the close up is a universal go-to. if your aim is to arouse, you can always deconstruct your subject into a cascade of sexualized images. wanna stray away from objectification and emphasize the emotion? shift those close-ups to your subject's faces.
cleavage can only be so emotive after all... or perhaps you want to highlight a change of intimacy within your scene? thoughtful camera movement can help support this sub-text. ultimately though, our obsession with the sex scene comes from our own voyeuristic desires. that's what scopophilia means after all. 'to derive pleasure from watching' and if we've learned anything today, it's that we all like to watch. "i'll have what she's having" [dun]
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