O.K., the allusion-happy Farrellys intended the scene, shot through the landlady's crooked leg, as an homage to a similar frame in "The Graduate" (in which Anne Bancroft, as the Ur-older woman, was actually 36 to Dustin Hoffman's real-life 30).
The film-makers had initially intended the scene to form the denouement of their movie, but decided to adhere to Taya Kyle's request.
Shinkai has said that he intended the scene to represent an idea common in teen anime, the "indirect kiss," in which one drinks from the same container as one's crush.
O'Bannon had intended the scene to indicate that Brett was becoming an Alien egg while Dallas was held nearby to be implanted by the resulting facehugger.
Anderson, who had intended the scene to display full-frontal nudity from actress Loni von Friedl, demanded a re-shoot, insisting that Read honour his obligations not just to Parrish as director but also to his Century 21 partners.
Rowe intends this scene, and its suggestion of swimmers enticed to their deaths by a Spielbergian impulse to save youth at all costs, to be taken literally.
So this would be a scene intended as an elegant backdrop to dining and entertainment.
Which raises an interesting question: Is this scene intended to be a sendup of supermarket romances?
Later, when he drags her to the playground where they frolicked as children, a scene intended to conjure the magic of reconnection to childhood innocence makes you squirm.
In a peculiar moment, the woman responsible for Kweku's firing, Dr. Michiko Yuki, is described as behaving like "a Hong Kong mobstress" — a cartoonish (and inexplicably off-base) ethnic stereotype in a scene intended to show the intractability of bias.
