The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.
Love conquers all.
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.