Screenwriting a love scene?!


Question: I am writing a screenplay and am curious how I would write a love/sex scene and not go overboard and make it gratutious. I mean the characters are really going at it, not "porno" style but the guy's really plowin' the girl, either on a couch or maybe in the bathtub.

Any suggestions?


Answers: I am writing a screenplay and am curious how I would write a love/sex scene and not go overboard and make it gratutious. I mean the characters are really going at it, not "porno" style but the guy's really plowin' the girl, either on a couch or maybe in the bathtub.

Any suggestions?

Biggest mistake most screenwriters make is trying to direct their movie. here's how'd be set up (note the format isn't correct YA won't let me do it the right way)

Int. Bathroom Night

Sandy makes love with Bob.

Seriously. That's it. One line. That's the thing about movies - they get passed through so many hands - you might envision the scene as fast and hard, the producer might see it as akward and impersonal, and the director might see it as soft and sensual. The story gets retold from different perspectives so many times - don't overdo the details unless they seriously do somethign to DRIVE the plot forward. If it's imparative to a character's development that they have kinky sex (maybe they were sexually abused and now has psychological problems and the sex scene is the best way for your to illustrate that) Then go ahead and put that down in black and white. But as a screen writer you do not add every detail and motion.

*edited cause I forgot to add something :P

do it as descriptivly as possible..the whole point of a screen play is to describe what you are seeing in a scene and what you are hearing i.e dialogue .......just dont say "plowing the girl" use more descriptive words like "thrusting powerfully"

How about like this...

With a passion that even surprised him, his movements became more urgent.
Faster and harder did his movements cause the water in the bathtub to splash around. Several times, the splashing got so high that it spilled over onto the sides of the tub. Not having a care in the world at that moment, did they worry about the bathroom floor.
The water that had once filled up the bathtub were beginning to flood the bathroom floor as his passion for her soared to new heights. The sounds of water hitting the floor were drowned out by the sweet music of ecstasy by her.



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