Movies that inspired your erotica

[SimonDoom]

Are there movies that have inspired your erotic writing? That stand out in your mind as having influenced you as a writer? Many, many movies have inspired me as a writer, but here are a few:

Logan's Run -- I believe this was the first movie in which I saw a woman fully nude. I think I was just shy of being a teenager. Jenny Agutter spends 99% of that movie in an absurdly skimpy and filmy little aqua dress thing, and in the other 1% it comes off. I was not the same person after that.

9 1/2 Weeks. I think this was the first movie I saw that featured eroticism as a series of choreographed games between a man and a woman, featuring dominance and submission issues. I liked the food fetish stuff, too. I wrote my own food/sex story and that movie definitely inspired me.

Secretary. It might be my favorite erotic movie. There are several things I like about it. It's genuinely romantic, even if in a very twisted way. Unlike the awful 50 Shades, it doesn't pull its punches on BDSM. It fully embraces the weirdness and kinkiness of its damaged, strange characters and doesn't try to "heal" them or explain away their kinks in terms of past trauma. The characters find liberation and romance and fulfillment by embracing their kinkiness. That's a message I try to express in my stories.

 

[MillieDynamite]

"Diabolique" (1996 film) a twisted little tale set at a Catholic all boys school. Two women murder the head master, a bad man, and try to dispose of the body. The action heats up when the dead lover apparently comes back from the dead.

"Bound" (1996 film) a beautiful lesbian love story with the hottest little, main stream, lesbian fucking you have ever seen. The sexual action takes place on a bed with the camera taking 360 degree turns around the action. You can feel the summersaulting, acrobatic fucking.

"Secretary" (2002 film) James Spader as the most twisted boss you could imagine. Christian Grey eat your drab bondage heart out, you're not worthy of licking James spunk of his secretaries ass. Which James wouldn't allow. when shot the snot on her ass, she had pull panties, pantyhose up, pull her skirt down, and go the bathroom and try to clean up. Her skirt wet on the backside for everyone in the office to see.

All three have influenced me to pursue the darker side of erotica.

I watched Secretary and Diabloique only once or twice. But Bound, shit man, maybe 30 times.

 

[KeithD]

I occasionally see a porn film that inspires a story, but not long ago Eyes Wide Shut inspired a couple of stories. The filming of movies has inspired some stories. One that comes to mind is Giant. More often with me, it's books I'm reading.

 

[NotWise]

No actress will ever replace my attraction to Hayley Mills, especially in "In Search of the Castaways."

 

[Bramblethorn]

Secretary. It might be my favorite erotic movie. There are several things I like about it. It's genuinely romantic, even if in a very twisted way. Unlike the awful 50 Shades, it doesn't pull its punches on BDSM. It fully embraces the weirdness and kinkiness of its damaged, strange characters and doesn't try to "heal" them or explain away their kinks in terms of past trauma. The characters find liberation and romance and fulfillment by embracing their kinkiness. That's a message I try to express in my stories.

I don't know that it inspired me exactly, but I very much appreciated that aspect of Secretary.

For me, the two that stand out might be The Hunger and Dangerous Liaisons.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Well, my wife and I appreciated Fifty shades of blah. We laughed, and laughed and turned it off.

 

[SimonDoom]

Well, my wife and I appreciated Fifty shades of blah. We laughed, and laughed and turned it off.

Well, in fairness, while I thought that the books were junk and the movie worse, I read them at a time in my life when they were influential, because I was starting to date again after a long time of not doing so, and it was interesting to me how many women of my age that one wouldn't think would read those books actually did -- and admitted that they did. As silly as the books were, they gave me some useful insights, and I suppose they have influenced my erotica in some ways.

You might be asking, what insight? It's this: People are less vanilla than you think. There's a lot more going on, kink-wise, than most people are willing publicly to accept or admit. For some Literoticans, that may be completely obvious. It sure wasn't obvious to me. Say what you want about the 50 Shades phenomenon, but it threw back the veil just a little bit about how much people want kinky weirdness. And my life since then has been more interesting because of it.

 

[NotWise]

Walt Disney fucked her. She was underage.

Are you telling me things I don't want to know?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Walkabout - also featuring an (even younger) Jenny Agutter as an English girl lost in the Australian desert. An early all nude scene - she's swimming in a waterhole. Nicholas Roeg directed.

Crash - with James Spader and Deborah Kara Unger, astonishingly sexual, in David Cronenberg's take on J.G.Ballard's novel about a couple who fetishise car crashes. References to James Dean and Jayne Mansfield abound.

Secretary - as noted by others.

Story of O - directed by Just Jaeckin, with Corinne Cléry and Udo Kier as O and Sir Stephen, made in 1975.

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Peter Weir directed, also made in 1975. Anne-Louise Lambert as Miranda the golden angel. I was a teenager when the movie came out, she was twenty, so...

9 1/2 weeks with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

The most erotic though (but not sexual) was Ingmar Bergmann's Summer with Monika (1953) with Harriet Andersson, then 21, playing a free spirited girl in a coming of age story. I was fifteen or sixteen when I saw it, at a Uni film group - my first all nude scene, I reckon, hence my memory of it.

 

[LAHomedog]

Walkabout - also featuring an (even younger) Jenny Agutter as an English girl lost in the Australian desert. An early all nude scene - she's swimming in a waterhole. Nicholas Roeg directed.

I was 20 when that came out and believe me, a lot of tissues were used over my fantasies about her. Not only a hot babe, a great actress.

 

[LAHomedog]

Gosh, I'm sorry no movies that I can think of. Maybe "The Maltese Falcon" in terms of style and dialogue. I have a thing for film noir. Even though I watch movies constantly and Turner Classic Movies is on the TV constantly, they haven't inspired me yet.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Like many people, I watched Walkabout at an impressionable age.
A couple school teachers used to shut us up with videos on Monday mornings - including Blue Lagoon (mostly a naked Brooke Shields and some gormless boy) and 9 1/2 Weeks - we fast-forwarded much of the plot but the remaining scenes made quite an impression on my 11yo self.

It wasn't until Dirty Dancing and The Lost Boys that I saw any films that plausibly showed men being sex objects. Patrick Swayze was viewed by the studio as 'just a dancer' and filmed as such. It's not that it's a great film, but it caters to the female gaze (to refer back to a thread here a while back)

Possibly more relevant to my sexuality was a BBC reading if The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Jackanory), where two girls in thin muslin dresses are forced into an orphanage, humiliated and whipped, with two female protagonists clearly getting off on treating them that way.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Ooh,
Mine are Blue Lagoon, Last Tango in Paris and Mulholland Drive.
All of these discovered in a locked vhs cabinet in my parent's room. Getting my hand on that key might have really screwed up my childhood

Non-erotic films that really inspire me - anything that comes out of studio ghibli comes first to mind. Notably Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Porco Rosso.

 

[PennameWombat]

There’s only one movie that ever tweaks my thoughts for erotic writing, Body Heat.

I built one story around Audition (mentioned in detail on another recent thread.) While that offered an erotic implication, it was more my story’s lead female’s references to various of Asami’s actions .

Although movies occupy a significant percentage of the ‘pop culture’ portions of my brain, this overlaps very little with the ‘erotic stories’ portion.

 

[ElectricBlue]

There’s only one movie that ever tweaks my thoughts for erotic writing, Body Heat.

Plus 1. Forgot that one, but Kathleen Turner, whoa!

 

[LAHomedog]

Plus 1. Forgot that one, but Kathleen Turner, whoa!

Karhleen Turner is a great text book case of how Hollywood works.

After "Body Heat" and a few others she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and put on massive doses of steroids. That made her fat and bloated. But rather than admitting she was sick, They promoted her as an alcoholic to hide the bloating. She would actually do interviews with a glass of scotch in her hand.

It was better to be a drunk than sick. Hollywood, go fucking figure.

 

[jaF0]

People seem to forget this is Lit and age rules apply.

If you can't include it in a story, you can't include it in a forum post.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hmm... movies come and movies go, I haven't been moved to write about anything by a movie. I do see movies in my head when I'm thinking of a new story to write.

Mostly, I have been influenced by writers of my youth. Heinlein, Dickson, and a litany of others, for my Sci-Fi stuff.

As for erotica, I guess a couple of books I read by Anonymous that I picked up at R. Dalton Bookseller. Covers were plain yellow and the subject matter in a few even made me cringe.

And then there were all the Penthouse Letters magazines that I read.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I used to participate in the Survivor Challenge where you earned points for writing and posting in as many different Lit categories as possible. I could not bring myself to write an Incest/Taboo story.

Then I saw a very cheesy, horror movie where the two stars were clearly smitten with each other. Their onscreen chemistry felt palatable. However, since they were playing brother and sister, that chemistry felt wasted, except for how they became my default "brother and sister" in my head. I can't remember the name of the movie. It's just as well, it wasn't a very memorable movie.

I've always found Linda Fiorentino's character in the movie "The Last Seduction" very inspirational for a strong, sexually secure female lead.

 

[jaF0]

Changed my mind about posting that one since I can't remember the character's age.

 

[TadOverdon]

Listing porn films is probably begging the question here, but first seeing the Debbie Does Dishes movies on old VHS tapes was kinda inspiring because Hartley and those actors were obviously having such a great time and trying to be comedians. Cute porn, imagine that. It was infectious.

 

[jaF0]

Adult films didn't inspire any of my stories here, though many portrayed ideas already in my mind. Example, 'I Do' with Hyapatia Lee and 'Beverly Hills Wives' with Amber Lynn..


My deviance was a product of the 'letters' type of sections in magazines and that is still the format I often try to emulate.

Yes, a lot of mainstream films and TV shows gave me ideas and I still play on some of them.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Possibly more relevant to my sexuality was a BBC reading if The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Jackanory), where two girls in thin muslin dresses are forced into an orphanage, humiliated and whipped, with two female protagonists clearly getting off on treating them that way.

Oh, I need to wash my brain. I’ve got this image of a circumcised BBC reading the story in a terribly British accent.

 

[NotWise]

Listing porn films is probably begging the question here, but first seeing the Debbie Does Dishes movies on old VHS tapes was kinda inspiring because Hartley and those actors were obviously having such a great time and trying to be comedians. Cute porn, imagine that. It was infectious.

The French flick "Histoires de Sexe(s)" (Sex Stories) inspired my relatively recent story "Finding the Fourth Girl" -- more in how it was told with parallel story lines and cuts to quick sex scenes -- than in the story itself.

But that film had elements I don't often see in porn videos -- plot and characters, for instance.

 

[PoisonPen33]

1981’s Looker and 1988 Waxwork.

Looker - Susan Dey of The Partridge Family / LA Law fame is a fashion model. In one scene she’s being measured down to the millimeter by a computer which involves her being naked in front of 360 degrees worth of cameras and laser measuring devices. The camera rotates around her while classical music plays and while you see the goods, they’re covered with grids of light. It was the first time I realized a non-sexual scene could still be titillating.

Waxwork - Deborah Foreman (aka “can you pound a six inch nail through a board with your penis” from Real Genius) is looking at a wax depiction of the Marquis de Sade whipping a girl, and she’s got this look of absolute curiosity on her face. Later in the film, she’s been taken into the exhibit, dressed as a peasant girl, and de Sade chains her up and starts whipping her. Foreman looks really into it - she’s sweating, her hair is a mess, and she’s quietly asking for more. Even when her boyfriend comes to rescue her, she doesn’t want to leave and clutches de Sade’s ankle, looking totally submissive.

Granted it implies BSDM is evil somehow, but Foreman looked so damn hot that it made me realize how even the most “depraved” thing might be someone else’s bag. It opened my mind and as a writer I try to show that some people LIKE the “weirder side.”