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* [[All That Jazz]] flaunts this trope so flagrantly. Joel Gideon is a ceaseless womaniser and his daughter is a blossomingly beautiful young lady. In more than one scene she deliberately makes him feel awkward by talking about sex. Better still is the scene where they dance together, specifically because it shows how comfortable they are with eachothers' bodies in a ''non-sexual'' capacity. The fact that the jailbait daughter is so unmistakably beautiful and sex is such a recurring theme in the film leaves you actively looking for the sexual subtext, but as they dance they talk exactly how you expect a father and daughter to talk. By placing the ideas of "family" "dancing" and "sexuality" in our minds the film highlights how un-confused the issues are in the minds of the characters. Dancing is not sex, dancing is dancing.

* In the beginning of the movie version of ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'', [[Voyage of the Dawn Treader|the third part]], there is this scene where Lucy sees a girl flirting with a boy, then she does the exact same gesture that girl did... in front of Edmund. This results in him frowning confused and asking her what she's doing, to which she widens her eyes and blurts 'nothing' guiltily, giving the impression that [[Accidental Innuendo|she actually tried to flirt with him]] for a moment. The explanation is given later.

* in ''[[Snow White and The Huntsman]]'', [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen Ravenna's]] relationship with her brother Finn flirts with incest several times. Especially when Ravenna bathes in front of him and, later, he gives her a not-so-brotherly kiss on the shoulder.

* Between Claudia and her brother Gustav in ''[[Snow White a Tale of Terror (Film)|Snow White a Tale of Terror]]''. She kisses him at one point, though he's rather terrified. It's also clear Frederich saw his late wife when he danced with Lilli. So does Claudia.

 

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