Sex Is Violence/Film

"It was impossible not to see that the love scenes were filmed like murder scenes, and the murder scenes like love scenes... It occurred to me that in Hitchcock's cinema...to make love and to die are one and the same."

—Francois Truffaut, on Alfred Hitchcock

Examples of Sex Is Violence in Film include:

• An American Werewolf in London: Alex and David are both shown biting each other as a form of foreplay.
• James Bond:
  • Sean Connery-era films feature this heavily.
  • The Brosnan Bond movies also feature these on at least two occasions. First, In GoldenEye, Xenia Onatopp clearly enjoys killing her victims a little too much. This is especially true of her fight with Bond himself in the steam room/sauna/pool area of his hotel; she tries to crush him to death with her thighs, but there are signs that both are clearly enjoying the moment.

Xenia: (getting slammed into walls) Yes!... Yes!... Yes!
Bond: (pulling a gun on her) "No, no, no. No more foreplay. Take me to Janus."

• • There's also Bond being tortured by Elektra King during the penultimate confrontation of The World Is Not Enough, who indulges in kissing and taunting Bond as she gradually breaks his neck.
• Basically the entirety of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. One example: After setting off a bomb in her husband's pocket, Jane slams into her husband's car to prevent him from getting in the driveway. Then comes the best scene of Sex is Violence ever. First, they have a Gun Fu battle ranging all over their house. Then, after John uses the gas line to blow up his wife, he jumps through the flames and they proceed to have a fight full of Asskicking Poses, using weapons like silverware, liquor bottles, walls, headbutts from Jane, Jane tossing from John, a Groin Attack by Jane and many other dirty, dirty fighting moves Luckily, they are both made of iron and love each other, so the fight spirals down to, of course, sex.
• In Shoot'Em Up, Smith continues to have sex with Donna while gunning down the Mooks sent to kill him. Donna certainly seems to enjoy the experience, while Smith quips, "Talk about shooting your load!"
• Sex and death are always closely related themes in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, as the page quote indicates. It's probably most obvious in Rope, where the first line of dialogue (after our Villain Protagonists have just murdered a classmate) is "Don't open the curtains. Let's... stay like this for a while." Promptly followed by the lighting of cigarettes after they conceal the corpse.
• A scene in Empire of the Sun had a couple quietly making love whilst the bombs went on outside the camp.
• The Man Who Fell to Earth has a very graphic sex scene in which the two shoot blanks at each other from a revolver during intercourse.
• Otto; or, Up With Dead People, which is a gay zombie film with what appears to be unsimulated sex scenes. Particularly near the end when there is a (fake) zombie orgy.
• It's more an interplay of sex and surgery, but the, er, climactic scene of Repo Men definitely counts.
• The interlude in "Zydrate Anatomy" in Repo! The Genetic Opera features an interplay of sex and surgery.
• Arguably, the entire Hellraiser series of films. At least, insofar as Pinhead's description of things to come for the protagonists.
• In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the two main characters take turns pretending to smother each other as foreplay.
• Raging Bull has elements of this.
• Hostage (1993). Sam Neil plays a British intelligence officer—in one scene he stabs a female guerrilla. As she gasps when the knife goes in, there's an instant flashback to him having sex with a woman earlier.
• Yukio Mishima's Patriotism is this trope, being the exquisitely filmed story of a young army officer and his wife who have sex and then kill themselves.
• Big Tits Zombie is half T&A and half zombie mutilation... but all funny.
• Lampshaded big-time in Demolition Man, with elements of Do You Want to Copulate? added. Lenina Huxley: "John Spartan, there is, of course, a well-known and documented connection between sex and violence. Not so much a causal effect as a general state of neurological arousal. And after having observed your behavior this evening and my resultant condition, um, I was wondering if you'd like to have sex?" Even funnier when we discover that Huxley and Spartan have two completely different understandings of the word "sex."
• Played up in the movie A Clockwork Orange, where the violence and rape is played out among images of nudity. You know the bit in the book where Alex beats the woman to death? He uses a plaster penis as the weapon in the movie.

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