Lights! Camera! Kiss! - Intimacy on screen

6 Minute English

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2021-08-16

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  • Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

  • I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Georgina.

  • When we think about romantic Hollywood movies,

  • there have been some famous examples over the years.

  • There are classic black and white romance movies,

  • like 1950 ones, a streetcar named Desire,

  • and the love affair between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca made in 1942.

  • You're really showing your age, Neil.

  • What about more recent movies like When Harry Met Sally?

  • Or that famous kiss between the characters Jack and Rose in the film Titanic?

  • In their time, all these movies were blockbusters, very popular and successful films which sold millions of cinema tickets.

  • And this success was often due to the on-screen romance between the leading actors.

  • In romantic movies, love is in the air.

  • Couples hold hands and kiss, or in other words, they show intimacy,

  • a close romantic or sexual relationship.

  • But while real couples kiss and hold hands all the time,

  • actors in movies are just pretending to be intimate, and this can lead to problems.