The Sex Gourmet – Jackie Brown (1997)

#6 Robert DeNiro and Bridget Fonda

Tarantino’s Jackie Brown is my AK-47. Accept no substitutes. Aside from the slickness of the script, the funky unstoppable score throughout, the film just exudes sex and style. There is not much to say about the 10 second sex scene between Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda, but its Jackie Brown. Everyone is getting fucked. There’s the justification.

Louis Gara (DeNiro) is just out of prison. Four years for a bank robbery. Melanie Ralston, (Fonda) shit, she’s impressed. After an afternoon watching ‘Chicks who love Guns’ with Melanie’s sometime boyfriend Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), Louis is ready for some hanky panky. Melanie is your typical bratty slut. Affectionately called ‘surfer girl’ by Ordell, she is likely 2/3 years away from being another disposable stoner chick with memories of her past life in Japan accelerating into the distance. But she’s still got it. Beach blonde and blue eyed, cracking ass in hotpants, and those bejewelled pedicured toes curling on the glass coffee table while she eats a bowl of noodles, making it look like fellatio with each strand she teases on her lips.

Louis is rough and ready. A three day beard shadow is on his face and looks like he would give you a good time despite getting stubble burn on the inside of your thighs. Big arms and big mustache, I’m down with his aesthetic, even if he is dumb as fuck. Not able to take a hit off a bong without a fit of coughing though, his youth is fading. However, Melanie’s foot flirting causes enough sideways glances from Louis, and with 4 years inside taking its toll on his likely semi erect cock, someone is going to get fucked, and quickly.

Ordell leaves the pair alone. ‘You can’t trust Melanie, but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie’, Ordell tells Louis later on in the film. True to this fact, after a short stoned conversation, Melanie casually asks Louis ‘Wanna fuck’? What happens next is a 8-10 second standing romp against a kitchen counter. Melanie doing little but allowing the brutish looking Louis give her his lonely length from behind for a short, fast satisfying fuck. When the heavy breathing stops and Louis looks ready to collapse, she casually hops off his dick and tells him ‘now we can catch up’.

While this scene lacks in quantity and eroticism, it more than makes up for it with with Tarantino’s usual magic. He makes a short, nearly mundane sex scene so comedic, wholly relatable and human. That feeling of abandon between two people, casually fucking in the daylight with their clothes and stone still on. Whats not to love about that?

8/10 – Melanie likes to fuck, she ain’t no good at it, but she likes to fuck.

by Claire Fagan