"Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions"
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Lyne’s “obviously” is doing a lot of work. It’s less a logical claim than a manifesto: if you’re telling a story about a relationship, he argues, you can’t keep sex and jealousy off-screen without lying about the weather. The phrasing collapses romance into a pressure system of appetite, possession, and fear, the very forces his films have treated not as side effects but as plot engines.
The key is how he frames sexuality and jealousy as craft ingredients, almost like lighting or pacing. “Has to be involved” reads like a director’s constraint, not a moral stance. Lyne isn’t confessing personal mess; he’s defending a cinema of consequence, where desire has externalities. In his hands, sex isn’t just intimacy, it’s narrative leverage: it exposes what characters want, what they’ll risk, how quickly tenderness can curdle into surveillance, blame, or violence. Jealousy functions as the camera’s cruelest close-up, forcing people to reveal the parts of themselves they’d prefer to edit out.
Context matters: Lyne came up through glossy, adult-oriented studio filmmaking (Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, Unfaithful), a lane Hollywood has largely abandoned in favor of IP and four-quadrant safety. This quote quietly argues for that endangered middle ground: erotic stakes, emotional volatility, stories where bodies aren’t decoration and choices have fallout. “Intrigued” is the tell: not judgment, not advocacy, but fascination with the moment desire stops being private and becomes destiny.
The key is how he frames sexuality and jealousy as craft ingredients, almost like lighting or pacing. “Has to be involved” reads like a director’s constraint, not a moral stance. Lyne isn’t confessing personal mess; he’s defending a cinema of consequence, where desire has externalities. In his hands, sex isn’t just intimacy, it’s narrative leverage: it exposes what characters want, what they’ll risk, how quickly tenderness can curdle into surveillance, blame, or violence. Jealousy functions as the camera’s cruelest close-up, forcing people to reveal the parts of themselves they’d prefer to edit out.
Context matters: Lyne came up through glossy, adult-oriented studio filmmaking (Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, Unfaithful), a lane Hollywood has largely abandoned in favor of IP and four-quadrant safety. This quote quietly argues for that endangered middle ground: erotic stakes, emotional volatility, stories where bodies aren’t decoration and choices have fallout. “Intrigued” is the tell: not judgment, not advocacy, but fascination with the moment desire stops being private and becomes destiny.
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| Topic | Relationship |
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