[probably NSFW] Can you think of any more films where the sex act is cleverly visually implied, but not overt?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33577

) January 7th, 2020

I can think of two:

1) At the very end of Dragnet (movie) after Sgt. Friday (Dan Ackroyd) acknowledges that his girlfriend is no longer “the virgin Connie Swail”, the camera pans up to the LA Police headquarters building, which is clearly implying a large phallus.

2) At the end of North by Northwest (Hitchcock classic), after the scene on Mount Rushmore, Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint are aboard the train going back east. The final scene of the movie is the silver train speeding into the small opening of a railroad tunnel (but is suggestive of something else).

Can you think of similar implied imagery in film?

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Bohemian rhapsody. It’s implied that Freddie Mercury is having sex with multiple men, but never shown.

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It Happened One Night — when that “Wall of Jericho” finally comes down between Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable.

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The original Bonnie and Clyde. When I saw it the first time, as a kid, the innuendo that Clyde was gay went right over my head. Now I see it clear as day.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Paul Newman and Liz Taylor….I was older when I finally saw that and it just slowly dawned on me that Newman’s character was gay.

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More on topic, Overboard. When Kurt Russel is telling Goldie the love story of Arturo and Catarina. They drowned. Kurt says everything you see the water hitting the rocks, causing it to spray that means they’re making love.

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I can’t find a clip, but in The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Vulcan becomes amorous with Venus, and the shot pulls back to the workers working the furnaces, and there is no mistaking the inference.

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