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Published on 10/14/08
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Body Heat (1981)
Adam Logan Fulrath, design director
THEN
I was 11 when I first saw Lawrence Kasdan’s erotic thriller—with my mother. As a movie buff, she wanted to introduce me to contemporary film noir. Instead, she begged, “Cover your eyes.” Yet peeking at scene after scene, I witnessed sweaty bodies doing things both foreign and fascinating. And when Kathleen Turner said, “You don’t want to lick it?,” I finally understood seduction.
NOW
Body Heat is as smart and sexy today as it was in ’81. The verbal foreplay, chemistry and sweat are so noir that you barely notice Ted Danson’s bad hair. And the sex is as graphic as in any Emmanuelle offering. Air-conditioning is scarce in Florida; it’s the dialogue that keeps the film cool: “You aren’t too smart. I like that in a man.” “What else do you like? Lazy? Ugly? Horny? I got ’em all.” “You don’t look lazy.”
Residual hotness: 6 out of 6
