Creative Analysis

In the 1985 Western Silverado, there’s a scene where Kevin Kline’s gambler character moseys up to a saloon and spies a horse recently stolen from him tied to a post. He starts a ruckus with the no-account thief who took the animal, and it’s up to the local law, a U.S. Army captain, to decide who is the rightful owner.

Kline attempts to prove his claim by enthusiastically kissing the beast on the mouth—and getting kissed back just as enthusiastically.