"If it's in focus, it's pornography, if it's out of focus, it's art."
Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Linda Hunt is the only actor to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. Not cross-dressing, not changing sex, but just being. For me this movie stands out for having the most fantastic sexual chemistry in two scenes. The first is when Guy (Mel Gibson in his former, more normal life) takes Jill (Sigourney Weaver) on an interview and they get caught in the rain. The second is when he accosts her at the embassy ball, followed immediately by the car drive through the dark streets, as they flout the curfew in the excitement of their impending night together. That's it! My next top ten list will be Top Ten Love Scenes in Movies! Yay! My mind is churning....
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