In rehearsals and discussions, we have been exploring different landmarks in a relationship. As a group we decided it would be easier to allocate each other a factor of a relationship and work on them individually. I decided I wanted to research “Sex” exploring awkward sexual encounters with a person, and alternatively sex with somebody that you love. While researching I came across an inner monologue of a Man’s thoughts during sex. The monologue sparked lots of different ideas in the rehearsal and there was lots of useful stuff in it. We decided at first that I am going to rewrite the monologue twice. One of them will consist of a man’s thoughts when having sex with someone they love and the other when the sex is awkward and new.
Here is a paragraph of the monologue I found to give you an idea.
“Sex. Sex. Sex. I am thinking about sex. Now I’m thinking about thinking about having sex. What is wrong with our brains that we can’t just enjoy things? We have to analyse them? Have we been doing this position to long? If I switch now, is she going to think that I wasn’t enjoying that last position? Because I really was. It’s sex- unless my penis is being bent in half, I am enjoying all of this”.
(What Culture, 2013)
I also researched typical music to make love to, the music that I found was extremely cliché and most of the songs are what you would expect to hear in a sex scene in a film. The most famous ones were “sexual healing” and “let’s get it on” which are the songs that will be playing throughout the scene.
The lonely island- “I just had sex” Paolo Nutini- “Candy”
Marvin Gaye- “Lets get it on” Jeremih- “Birthday sex”
R Kelly- “Bump and grind” James Morrison- “You give me something”
Barry white- “I’m gonna love you” Marvin Gaye- “Sexual healing”
While researching I also looked at different movie clips, as most films portray sex as something that is romantic and just works when really this is not the case at all. It’s interesting that a lot of the films that portrayed these scenes were the older classics. The example I have shown here is a perfect example of what I’m sure most girls envisioned there first times to be! Newer films such as bridesmaid portray the awkwardness and sometimes how it really is funny and just doesn’t work!
Films
An example of an awkward film clip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zNphZdnXc
(You tube, 2011)
An example of a love scene…
(You tube, 2009)
As the scene progressed we decided that we wanted the girls inner monologue as well as the boys, it made more sense to have both sides of the thought process during sex. Instead of interviewing I wrote two different monologues and we pieced these together to create the scene the writing style is very ‘real’ and doesn’t portray the things people necessarily think is going through somebodies head when having sex, because it isn’t all “I love him” and “this is perfect”. It’s lots of different emotions. Men and women are paranoid, they don’t know if what they are doing is working or what the other person thinks of what they look like naked.
Works Cited
Philips, H (2013) 10 Most Awkward Sitcom Sex. [online] London:Whatculture. Available from http://whatculture.com/tv/10-most-awkward-sitcom-sex-scenes.php/5 [Accessed 26 June 2011
Wheatley, C 2011, ‘One Day’, Sight & Sound, 21, 9, pp. 70-71, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, EBSCOhost, viewed 28 May 2014.
Megan (2009) Ghost Unchained Melody [Online Video] Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfxUVjHFl0 [Accessed 6 July 2014].
videovipere (2011) Bridesmaids sex scene [Online Video] Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zNphZdnXc [Acessed 6 July 2014].