Mallory Rubin Award: Did This Movie Need a Better Sex Scene?
Add later yacht-sex flashbacks
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- The absence of a Gage–Diana sex scene is criticized; Redford refusing to perform one is explicitly speculation.
- An online claim that a porn actor served as Redford’s double is rejected as fake rather than accepted as research.
- Withholding the yacht sex initially creates useful uncertainty, but later flashbacks of Diana remembering it would improve the film.
- Lyne’s actual sex scenes are questioned despite his sexual subject matter, including this film’s awkward opening and recurring dishes or running water; Nine and a Half Weeks is the favorable exception.