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Sex with Sal

posted 12 years ago by Airjordan2288
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How did Richard even find the fortitude to have sex with her? She was ugly and nasty and probably smelled like a cadavers bunghole.

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[–] tchevyz71 11 years ago

I don't think I could touch her if she was the last girl on the island.

[–] knifeparty2004 10 years ago

Tilda didn´t look too great in this movie, but I think she is quite striking in real life and I probably would have hit it. What people are forgetting is, I don´t think Richard had a choice. She knew about him drawing the map so he had to appease her by having sex with her.

[–] TheMaster01 10 years ago

I'm pretty sure Richard and Sal don't even have sex in the book.
The only mention of sex in Garland's novel is between Etienne and Francoise

[–] lazarillo 10 years ago

As I recall Richard and Sal do have sex in the book, but Richard and Francoise DO NOT. That's what bothered me. If you had Virginie Ledoyen laying down for you, why you even want to waste anything on Tilda Swinton? It made more sense in the book though. Sal was more attractive and charismatic, Richard didn't look like DiCaprio, and Francoise didn't look like Virginie Ledoyen.

[–] TheMaster01 10 years ago

When did sal and Richard have sex in the book? He went on the rice run with Jed, a character who was completely taken out of the film (which pissed me off). So sal wasn't even on the rice run with him...

[–] Superstar51292 9 years ago

Sal was more attractive in the book? Unless I just misinterpreted something, he described her as an odd-looking female Buddha.

[–] Dragoneyed363 10 years ago

Nah, Tilda Swinton is a hot lay...

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[–] TriumphReq 10 years ago

She's a beautiful woman and in many shots looks as healthy as any of them there. It was just the wicked nature of her character that was nasty.

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[–] Captain_Bob 9 years ago

Two of the biggest sell-outs in the movie were Richard hooking up with Françoise and Richard then having sex with Sal. I much prefer the book version in which his desire for Françoise went unrealised, and that Sal was never much more than a slightly bossy unsexual matriarch of the group. But getting back to the movie I simply don't buy why Richard would consent to a one-night illicit bonk with that androgynous lizard, especially when he had sexy young Françoise waiting for him, and also why Bugs didn't destroy Richard when their bonk became common knowledge, as per the previous threat for him to keep his dick in his pants.

[–] cobnut 9 years ago

Because Richard was a gormless horny 12-year-old in a 20-something's body, and after months isolated on an island in a tiny community where everyone sees, hears and knows your business, even Virginie Ledoyen's affections would grow tedious and samey to a selfish uncharismatic horny goat boy.

Sal was convenient, necessary to please, and a passive mode of vengeance against someone Richard hated (Bugs). That's all. If she hadn't wanted in his pants, I expect Richard would've found some other bit of skirt in the nightclub crowd to have his way with before they returned to the island. Change of scenery, so to speak. He spends most of the film waffling on about new experiences and adventure and not getting stagnant. Francoise could hardly expect better, and she had some nerve to go postal about it when she'd done the exact same thing to Étienne with Richard.

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[–] McQueen1980 9 years ago

when a woman offers u sex u dont say no!!!
but yeah richard should have thought about the consequences when getting back to the island

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