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Faye Dunaway & Steve McQueen explore the erotic possibilities of chess in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, dir. Norman Jewison) (via filmandmusicfashion.com)

The movie’s major romantic scene takes place over a chessboard.

“Do you play?” Crown asks.

“Try me,” she answers.

After those two sentences, the script had a three-word description about what should follow: “Chess with sex.” No dialogue, just a man and a woman, a chessboard, chess pieces, and a charge of sexual tension.

Steve & Faye radiate spontaneity in the scene, but in fact they were responding to my directions: “Faye, you’re playing chess, but another game is going on…Without thinking, your right hand goes up your left arm & lightly caresses your throat…Steve, let your eyes follow Faye’s hand…Faye, look up and catch Steve watching. You’re embarrassed. You smile & look down…Faye, stroke the bishop…Steve, what’s she doing? Masturbating the bishop? My God, she’s throwing you off your game…” And so on for six minutes of screen time.

“Check,” Vicki says. The silence is broken.

Crown stands up, studies the board, confirms he has lost. He roughly pulls Vicki to her feet.

“Let’s play something else,” he says.

They kiss. Not a brief, tender kiss. I was going for the all-time longest kiss in screen history. Not a hint of bare skin, but the kiss was far sexier than a shot of two nudes. It lasted for 80 seconds of screen time. If you can believe it, that kiss earned the movie a Mature Audience rating, and most newspapers would not reproduce our open-mouth kiss ad for the film.

-excerpted from This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me by Norman Jewison.

The chess scene can be seen here.

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