Monday, January 17, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 9

It isn't Valentine's Day yet, but love is in the air with today's theme...

THE MOVIE WITH MY FAVORITE KISSING SCENE

There are a lot of great kissing scenes. Spiderman had the iconic backwards kiss. The Princess Bride had the self-proclaimed most romantic kiss of all time. The Godfather: Part II even brought us the kiss of death. There are different types of kissing scenes though. The funniest in my opinion is when Thomas Lennon kissed Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man because of the sheer reaction on Rudd's face afterward. There are purely erotic kisses like those between Neve Campbell and Denise Richards in Wild Things. There are platonic kisses and familial kisses, which are all powerful in their own right. But one of the most heartfelt and poignant kissing scenes of all time is between two robots. Wall-E has my favorite kissing scene because Pixar made us cry once again by showing that even robots have a chance to love. There will be more romantic kisses in movies, but this one stood out because of the daring approach to the story. A love story between robots seems preposterous, but the geniuses at Pixar summed up the relationship with one little kiss between the two lovers. It is as heartfelt a gesture as you can get.

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