I just watched Risky Business again and I still think this is one of the sexier movies of our time. As mentioned before the score of the movie is perfect and the train scene is one of the hottest I've ever witnessed.
shareSo true...now we have porn or movies with no sex...this is actually a sexy movie
shareI'll never un-hear that Phil Collins tune.. lemme tell you =)
shareIts one of those movies from another time that understood that people -- yep, teenagers too -- really wanted and enjoyed sex.
I'd say an early erotic moment comes when Tom's handsome horndog friend edges through the front door of Joel's home to speak to him. The friend KNOWS that Tom has that big old house all to himself. And in a moment, the guy's girlfriend --a perfect mix of schoolgirl innocence and erotic desire -- slips into the house behind him, saying not a word. The unspoken request is clear: these two would like to use a bedroom in Tom's empty house for sex. NOW.
I found it rather sacrificial that Tom offers the couple HIS room. But he's a repressed lad under fear of parents. He can't offer up THEIR room. (Its rather a nod to Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" of 1960 where Jack Lemmon keeps letting his bosses boff their secretaries in HIS private bed...and then gets into that bed after they are done and have left.)
In any event: Tom's friend bringing in a girl who "wants it" is a sexual scene(followed by the "sexual comedy" of Tom and his friend diligently trying to study while sex sounds and thumps rain down from above.) The movie digs on people having sex, start to finish, no punishments, no interruptions.
Rather unique.
And the Tangerine Dream music only makes it sexier still..and kind of dream-like and sad at the same time(at the end of the train sex scene.)
And the Tangerine Dream music only makes it sexier still..and kind of dream-like and sad at the same time(at the end of the train sex scene.)"
And they scored two Tom Cruise flicks in this same time period. Risky Business and Legend
And they scored two Tom Cruise flicks in this same time period. Risky Business and Legend
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This I did not know!
I never saw Legend, but there is still time.
Tangerine Dream carved out a brief "movie score" period which certainly enhanced the movies their(?) scores appeared in.
One of my theories is that the most powerful movie musical composers SHARED the authorship of the directors who made those movies.
With Hitchcock, it was Bernard Herrmann(Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwes.) With Blake Edwards, it was Henry Mancini(The Pink Panther, The Great Race, Experiment in Terror.) With Spielberg, it was John Williams (Jaws, Close Enounters, ET.) The music was as much a memory of the movie as ...the movie(visuals.)
I'm not sure why Tangerine Dream stopped scoring movies(famous movies, at least), but the ones they did score were memorable BECAUSE of the music. Risky Business comes to mind, as does Michael Mann's Thief, William Freidkin's Sorcerer.
Don't forget about Throw Momma from the Train
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