Post: #1

I just watched the movie Vicki Christina Barcelona last night, and I highly recommend it. There's a lot of wisdom to be gleaned from that movie about attraction, seduction, and what turns women on.

This scene -- where the male lead first meets the two female leads -- is a great pickup scene. Juan Antonio is a suave Spanish painter who is just meeting the women for the first time. (A little backstory to this scene: Christina, played by Scarlett Johansson, had seen him before, from a distance, and was told he had tried to kill his ex-wife.)

In this two minute scene, he meets them for the first time, invites them to fly somewhere with him for the weekend, and tells them he plans on having sex with both of them. The dark-haired woman, Vicki, plays the skeptical cockblocker, and you'll see how deftly he handles her objections.

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The rest of the movie is about Juan Antonio's relationship with the women. Great stuff. Vicki, who is engaged to some cookie cutter American career-obsessed dweeb, begins to have doubts about her impending marriage because of Juan Antonio, and the contrast between the free-spirited European artist and the dockers-wearing junior executive provides much comic relief. Christina, too, has a relationship with Juan Antonio, as he symbolizes her search for something different in life, not just the typical off-the-shelf life she is offered in America.

Post: #2

Yeah.

This might very well be the most talked about scene in any movie on this forum.

It might also be the most universally appreciated.

Post: #3

I knew I should've searched before posting that.