Poll: "Ghost" tops as the most romantic movie love scene

BBC News/Entertainment On-Line | Friday, 7 Feb.,2003 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Friday, 7 February, 2003, 16:11 GMT

Ghost tops romantic love scenes poll

Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze's clinch over a pottery wheel in Ghost has been voted the top love scene in a film poll of UK cinema-goers.

The scene from the 1991 supernatural romance, which also starred Whoopi Goldberg, took 22% of the 3010 votes cast at UCI cinemas across the UK.

Top five romantic scenes 1. Ghost (Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze)

2. Love Story (Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal)

3. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell)

4. Pretty Woman (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts)

5. Casablanca (Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart)

"Ghost" beat classic scenes such as the final goodbye on the airport tarmac in the drama "Casablanca" (1942), and Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr's embrace on the beach in "From Here To Eternity" (1953).

The list does include a number of classic romances from yesteryear.

The scene where Jenny (Ali McGraw) dies in Oliver's (Ryan O'Neal) arms in "Love Story" was a surprise second favourite.

Scenes from 90s romances "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Pretty Woman" came in at number three and number four.

"Casablanca" has been called the most romantic film ever

The airport farewell between Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa and Humphrey Bogart's Rick in Casablanca made number five.

The romantic list also included scenes from "Brief Encounter" (number six), "Gone With The Wind" (number seven), "From Here To Eternity" (number eight) and "Bridget Jones' Diary" (number nine).

And the scene from "Titanic" where Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio stand at the prow of the doomed liner was number 10.

"The favourite film moments chosen here by our guests are a really interesting mix of tear-jerkers, passionate declarations and scenes to make you smile," said a UCI spokeswoman.

[Darheel]

No, really, you must see Always, it is much, much more than Dreyfuss. It is a feast for the heart, mind, and soul. It touched even ME, and I'm pretty tough lol.

[Darheel]

It was HER movie. And, yes, I hate Lib actors, but I LIKE good movies like Dr. Zhivago, and Contact Ii love the romance between Foster and McCaunahy(ican't spell his name)and all the other dynamics with men, including her dad.

[visualops]

Contact was very cool.

Sometimes I believe one has to simply appreciate art for art's sake, otherwise there'd be alot of stuff in basements lol

[Darheel]

Have you ever seen, or read 'Fine Things'? The best made-for-tv-movie romance ever(sobbing).

[Darheel]

If they changed the last few minutes into something spectacular and meaningful, Contact would be an absolute classic.

We can't leave out Sarah Conner and Kyle Reese in 'Terminator', but the love that never was was between Ripley and Hicks in 'Aliens'. sigh.

[visualops]

Agreed on Contact-
Yeah, Terminator...that scene was very poignant.

[Billthedrill]

What, no votes for "Naughty Nurses In Bondage?" I cried when Lola said "bless you, Dirk, I'll never use that speculum again." They just (sob!) don't make 'em like that any more...

[TransOxus]

Right! What about Last Tango - wasn't there the romantic butter scene! Who did they poll? Women only? Do Women consider clay more romantic than butter? And why not scenes with whipped cream? Guess guys prefer Basic Instinct (physical) while women prefer Romance (emotional).

[redangus]

The end of "Love Story"(I am not ashamed to say I cried),The fort scene from "Mohicans", all of Romeo and Juliet (but then I was young and very much in love at the time), Casablanca and finally the "Ghost" scene would be my top five.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

how about "Somewhere in Time" with Jane Seymour. Romance all over the place!

"Somewhere in Time" really was the most romantic movie.

[calljack]

The last 5 seconds of "Mercury Rising" will tear your heart out and hand it to you on a plate.

[AnAmericanMother]

How about this one?

[eleni121]

Let's not forget the Turkish prison scenes in Midnight Express!

[eleni121]

You are soooo right! Now Gable may be before my time but Swayze a better lover than Gable - NO WAY!

[AnAmericanMother]

He's before my time, too, I must confess.

But my mom was at the premiere at Loew's Grand downtown in Atlanta (the old DeGive Opera House, right where the Georgia Pacific Building is now.) She was a very small child, and her father put her up on his shoulders so that she could see Gable and Leigh and all the others going in.

[2rightsleftcoast]

Agree, City of angels and Mohicans were both good
love scenes, but nothing will ever top that scene
on the beach in "From here to eternity"
When Burt Lancaster kisses her, wow.
The music, the whole thing.

[Richard Kimball]

Deliverance had to be the scariest movie I've ever seen. I had nightmares for years about it (not the Ned Beatty scene). I dreamed I had killed someone, and there was a lawman who knew it, but couldn't prove it, and kept following me around. That scene at the end where the hand comes up out of the lake and Jon Voight wakes up screaming, then it goes back to the lake still scares me. Brian DePalma made an entire career out of ripping off that ending (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, etc.)

For romantic scenes, I'll still take the spaghetti scene from "Lady and the Tramp".

[Richard Kimball]

Bammo. You nailed it. Even though it featured Christopher Reeve, Somewhere in Time had to be the most romantic movie ever.

[Marie Antoinette]

Somewhere in Time- I love that movie. Just hearing the music from the movie, I get a huge lump in my throat and the eyes start to sting. *If* I still had cable, I am afraid I'd be compelled to watch it every time it was shown :-)

ACK! Now I'm going to have to find and buy the DVD :-)

[Richard Kimball]

Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody was the theme. There's a web site here that plays the theme when you open the page, and also has a bunch of info on the rhapsody. There's another here, with a better version. I thought Jane Seymour made the movie