Off Topic Discussions From Another World • No More Cinematic Kisses

I thought this was plenty weird (NOTE: Spoilers for the new Twisters film):
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235954936/

This article is in debate about the lack of a cinematic kiss between two heroes in the film Twisters and the reasons why:

Chung himself recently said that scrapping the kiss was a result of evolving filmgoer preferences. “I feel like audiences are in a different place now in terms of wanting a kiss or not wanting a kiss,” the director told Entertainment Weekly. “I actually tried the kiss, and it was very polarizing — and it’s not because of their performance of the kiss.”


Debate around the film follows research suggesting that members of Gen Z are less interested than previous generations in seeing onscreen sex scenes. While recent movies with steamy scenes have indeed sparked interest among younger viewers — think Amazon titles Challengers, The Idea of You and Red, White and Royal Blue — films seem less likely to include moments of unearned nudity or intimacy. (Last year, a study reported that sexual content in major films had dropped nearly 40 percent since 2000.) In the case of Twisters, Powell has said he saw the kiss omission as helping to frame Kate’s self-actualization as not hinging on having a significant other by her side.

Brian Hurwitz, who works as an in-house writer for production company Dolphin Entertainment and is a lecturer at UCLA, notes that members of Gen Z and younger millennials can see intimate scenes as “a sign of the inequality of times past” when women may have had less say in such scenes. “It’s the discomfort, and the sign of any sort of intimacy has become forced,” he says. As a real-world example, he cites last year’s scandal surrounding Spanish soccer player Jennifer Hermoso getting an unwanted kiss from the then-president of the nation’s soccer federation, who has since resigned.

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