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Post by msdemos on Feb 14, 2020 7:18:34 GMT
Any fan of (older) movies has probably seen this somewhat odd behavior, that came when a woman was kissing a man, and for some reason, would then lift one of her legs backward, up off the ground, rather than just simply standing there while doing so. I've probably seen it hundreds of times in movies (and probably on some older tv shows, too), and still have absolutely no idea why they did that, or what that was all about. Can anybody please explain what this was, why it was done, or how (or when) it came into vogue ??
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 14, 2020 7:50:34 GMT
I assume it is to make the shot less boring.
Second guess, so the projectionist remembers he has to change the reel.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 14, 2020 13:16:13 GMT
Kissing the guy is sweeping them off their feet but the special effect are too limited to show a total levitation plus showing them floating that would be just silly ?
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 14, 2020 13:33:03 GMT
Affectation? Happens to me all the time.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 14, 2020 13:49:18 GMT
not a movie
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Post by marshamae on Feb 14, 2020 14:25:25 GMT
It’s known as a heel pop. There’s a whole plot point about it in TGE Princess Diaries.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2020 15:51:39 GMT
It's a question that's come up on a number of discussion boards of varying types, and the most anyone has to offer are theories. Among the more popular is that it had something to do with maintaining balance while kissing a taller man, which makes little sense to me. But the most popular one is that it's merely a demure expression of eroticism, to which I generally subscribe.
Even in the earliest films long before the PCA took over policing content, it was considered out of the bounds of good taste for performers to put, shall we say, their whole bodies into scenes of romance and passion. Roaming or groping hands, pelvis grinding and the like now permissible simply weren't done. Once an actor and actress were in the time-honored clinch, they had little to work with but their heads and their feet. Some directors liked to push the envelope with suggestive body language that somehow made it past Breen Office bluenoses. A reclining Claudette Colbert pointing her toes upward while Joel McCrea kisses her in The Palm Beach Story and Kim Stanley draping herself over Marlon Brando while raking his bare back with her fingers in A Streetcar Named Desire are a couple examples.
But the raised female foot was good enough for most, and quickly became what I take to have been acceptable code symbolizing sexual excitement, and standing in for both genders, I might add; I suspect the display was limited to the ladies because a gentleman's leg elevated in such a manner would have been perceived as symbolism that was a little too blatant (but for all I know, some director from the '20 - '50s may have gotten away with that, too).
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 14, 2020 21:39:33 GMT
I'm a leg man!!!!
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Post by london777 on Feb 14, 2020 22:28:36 GMT
Among the more popular is that it had something to do with maintaining balance while kissing a taller man ... This. If you want to disprove it, show me a still of a woman kissing a shorter man and still raising her leg. You can't. So there!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2020 23:28:51 GMT
Among the more popular is that it had something to do with maintaining balance while kissing a taller man ... This. If you want to disprove it, show me a still of a woman kissing a shorter man and still raising her leg. You can't. So there! I'll take your word for that, but I do know this much: whenever I had trouble keeping my balance while kissing a taller guy, I needed both my feet on the ground!
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Post by marianne48 on Feb 15, 2020 1:46:27 GMT
The male equivalent of a part of the body becoming elevated could only be shown in Tex Avery cartoons, where an aroused male's entire body could become stiff and elevated at the sight of a sexy woman (alternatively, his eyeballs could extend from their sockets).
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Post by millar70 on Feb 15, 2020 4:07:01 GMT
The male equivalent of a part of the body becoming elevated could only be shown in Tex Avery cartoons, where an aroused male's entire body could become stiff and elevated at the sight of a sexy woman (alternatively, his eyeballs could extend from their sockets). All these years of watching those old cartoons, and I never quite realized that there may have been a hidden meaning there!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 15, 2020 4:19:44 GMT
All these years of watching those old cartoons, and I never quite realized that there may have been a hidden meaning there! Nor did I, but then … it had to be pointed out to me that Pepe le Pew was, in reality, a violent sexual predator.
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Post by london777 on Feb 15, 2020 12:50:47 GMT
… it had to be pointed out to me that Pepe le Pew was, in reality, a violent sexual predator. Indeed he was. He was named after Pépé le Moko (Moko meaning"pimp") played by Jean Gabin in the famous 1937 movie, and his voice, by Mel Blanc, was based on that of Charles Boyer in Algiers, the 1938 remake of that classic (in which no-one said "Take me to the Casbah").
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