Blue Valentine Sex Scene
What can a husband do to turn on his wife?
Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a young, beautiful married couple whose world is coming apart despite the intense bond between them, the 2010 film Blue Valentine is as heartbreaking and heated as they come.
The script, written by director Derek Cianfrance & Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, follows the evolution of the couple’s relationship, jumping back and forth in time as husband Dean (Gosling) and wife Cindy (Williams) think back on the fateful moments that brought them to this point. From the day they first encounter one another to the climactic struggle that tears them apart, Dean never stops wooing Cindy, at times charming the pants off of her and at times smothering her. Their emotions pivot around Frankie (Faith Wladyka), their sweet five-year-old daughter; Cindy was pregnant with Frankie when she married Dean and now knows that Dean’s claim on Frankie’s heart is the tightest grip he has on keeping the family together.
In the scene below, Dean and Cindy have dropped Frankie off at the home of Cindy’s dad, Jerry (John Doman), while Dean drags Cindy away to a romantic getaway at a theme hotel called Fantasuites. It’s a day in which Cindy has found their missing dog dead on the side of the road, and she’s in no mood for making whoopee. But Dean insists, and by tending to every inch of Cindy’s body, he comes close to fulfilling a vision of passion. Close, alas, but not close enough.
INT. FANTASUITES — MOON ROOM — NIGHT — PRESENT DAY
Door opens, revealing Dean and Cindy holding groceries and suitcases. Dean flicks on the light, illuminating the Moon Room — a hotel room decorated like the lunar surface.
DEAN
Wow. Where are we, huh? We’re inside a robot’s vagina.
CINDY
Was this the only one that they had?
DEAN
I told you they had Cupid’s Cove or this. You want me to see if we can get Cupid’s Cove?
CINDY
I’m making a drink.
Cindy moves to the small kitchen that looks like a control room. She makes herself a drink.
CINDY (cont’d)
There’s no windows.
Dean moves into the bedroom, SEES the circular spaceship spinning bed.
DEAN
Cool bed, huh? Check this out.
He presses a button.
DEAN (cont’d)
The bed turns! Hey, did you see this? Hey! Hey, look at me!
CINDY
I don’t think there’s a fridge.
Dean makes a loud barking noise.
DEAN
This is how they laugh in the future. Like this.
He does it. Over and over again. The sound grates on every fiber of Cindy’s being. She just wants to numb out.
CINDY
I thought the whole point of coming here was to have a night without kids.
INT. JERRY’S HOUSE — NIGHT — PRESENT DAY
Phone rings.
JERRY
Hello? Yeah, hold on.
Jerry passes the phone to Frankie, who’s sitting on his lap.
JERRY (cont’d)
Here, Sweetheart, it’s your mommy. She wants to talk to you.
FRANKIE
Hi, mom. Yes.
INT. FANTASUITES — FOYER — CONTINUOUS — PRESENT DAY
Cindy sips from a Cape Cod and talks to Frankie. Dean comes into the room, trying to get the phone from his wife.
CINDY
Okay, honey… don’t forget to potty before you get into bed… bye… I love you…
Dean gets the phone.
DEAN
Hey, Frankie, this is how they laugh in the future! You try it!
He does it. Cindy goes into the other room. She needs to get away from these sounds that he is making. She closes the door behind her, but can still hear him…
DEAN (cont’d)
(makes farting noise) Are you tooting? Frankie!
INT. FANTASUITES — BATHROOM — NIGHT — PRESENT DAY
Steam accumulates on mirrors. Cindy takes her clothes off, tests the temperature of the water and steps in the shower.
INT. FANTASUITES — FOYER — NIGHT — PRESENT DAY
Dean hears Cindy start the shower. He gets an idea and decides to cut it short with Frankie.
DEAN
Love you like crazy! I gotta go, okay? Kiss kiss.
Dean cracks open the door to the steam-filled bathroom. Cindy lathers her hair with her eyes closed.
DEAN (cont’d)
What are you doing?
CINDY
What? What does it look like I’m doing?
DEAN
Gettin’ all wet and naked… I’m gonna go order some food — you want some?
CINDY
You know what I like. Can you close the door?
Dean closes the door, remains in the BATHROOM, watches his naked wife, removes his clothes. Cindy does a double take.
CINDY (cont’d)
What are you doing?
Dean pulls back the shower curtain and steps in.
DEAN
What does it look like I’m doing?
CINDY
Dean.
The small shower presses them close. Dean’s smile infects her. He leans over, they kiss. Brushing lips at first. Dean presses closer. Cindy pulls back and pivots him around until the stream of water catches his body. He leans his head back, the water pours over his hair and face.
He places his hands on Cindy’s hips and pulls her close to him. Cindy hands him a bar of soap. He builds a gentle lather. Cindy inches back, turns around. Dean lathers her back, slow and languid.
He lowers his hands from her back to her behind. Cindy turns.
DEAN
I wasn’t done.
He washes her shoulders and neck. His hands sculpt her body and move to her breasts. No longer washing her, but molding her. Cindy looks up. His hands move to her belly. He kneels down.
Cindy reaches down and lifts him up by the arms. But Dean remains where he is.
He begins, on his knees, to wash the entire surface of her left thigh, knee, calf, foot. Then he moves to her right foot and up her calf, knee and thigh.
Cindy releases her breath. Then, Dean’s hands move up between her legs.
CINDY
Okay.
Cindy grabs under his armpits. He refuses, but she wins. She pivots them around again. Standing in the stream of water, Cindy washes the soap off her body, eyes closed, head back.
INT. FANTASUITES — HALLWAY — NIGHT — PRESENT DAY
Dean gets ice from the ice machine. He can hear a couple having sex in one of the other suites.
