Now there’s nothing new about hero-worship since the dawn of man women have looked up to mythologized men for inspiration. Delilah had Samson and Josephine her Napoleon.
But the real trouble started with Hollywood. The movies made it possible for actors to be seen by millions of impressionable morals. As the film industry flourished and audience multiplied movie
stars acquired an influence out of all proportion to their personal worth.
Although our mother’s were never privy to Bogart’s on-screen bedroom techniques, Errol Flynn’s rampant sexuality or ogled Robert Taylor
below his belly-button, the after-glow on their leading ladies faces confirmed that these guys must have been pretty hot between the sheets.
And it seems lusting over screen lovers is not particular to an age group or class status, they stay constant only the names
change
As teenagers we never wanted to see Marlon Brandon naked. But this didn’t deter baby-boomers from turning fully clothed Hollywood
lovers like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman into sex symbols.
Today the sex symbol seems to need full exposure in glorious Technicolor from every angle.
Naked bodies, raunchy lovemaking, and explicit sex are what we are being served up on a regular basis for the price of a ticket.
Gibson did it without exposing his lethal weapon whereas; Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction filled in all the blanks and left nothing to our imagination.
Yesteryear, films offered us only a ‘what might have been’ glimpse into the bedroom antics of the on-screen lovers. The cut from Rhett scaling the staircase two at a time with
Scarlet in arms to Vivien Leigh’s morning after smile told us everything. Lana Turner was magnetic in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Dressed entirely in white, she cut a provocative figure as the wife of elderly Kellaway, lusting after John Garfield while planning her husband demise. The 1946 version was less explicit than the Nicholson and Lange 1981 remake.
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For lovers of the cosmopolitan man, Cary Grant ranks the perfect aristocrat. On-screen, he can single-handedly fight off the foe while bedding blondes, brunettes and redheads without discrimination.
Women who identify with the damsel-in-distress usually have Cary Cooper as their hero. These women usually marry who are short on dialogue and strong on action.
For the romantic at heart, Tyrone Power is a perfect prototype. The way Lamour (Johnny Apollo) and Tierney (The Razor’s Edge) lusted over him alludes to the women who want a pretty-boy with substance.
Like today’s teenagers, with their Cruise, Pitt and DiCaprio, baby-boomers would not have survived the trails of
teenage hood without the likes of McQueen, Brando and Newman. The difference being, today anything and everything comes and goes where moviemakers are concerned. Where once our parents were called upon to use their imagination, Generation Y is faced with blatant, dangerous and unsafe sex.
In its lust for the box-office bucks Hollywood writers are becoming more and more morally irresponsible in creating fantasies we cannot possible simulate.
Because – they have couples falling in love – instantaneously! Sure it happens in real life, but unlike reality screen lovers are in-and-out of the soup with no need for foreplay and simultaneous orgasms in the time it takes to boil 3-minute
noodles.
Not even Woody Allen fails to perform in the movies. With a face only a mother could love, Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow seem to satisfied with Woody’s prowess in bed… and he gets the headache.
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