Exactly. When she reveals she’s actually a virgin he gets snapped back to reality and the truth that he’s been living a fantasy and she’s not a sexually experienced woman but is indeed a child.
And yes his fetishization of her is creepy, it’s supposed to be creepy. We’re not supposed to be rooting for him to have sex with her. He’s sympathetic because he’s killed but everyone in the movie is fucked up. I don’t see why the same story couldn’t be made today.
Yeah, Ewell (b. 1909) was early to mid-forties during the 1952-54 Broadway run of The Seven-Year Itch and the filming of the 1955 film.
Monroe (b. 1926) played that role in her late twenties, and AFAICT the ages of the corresponding characters in the film were intended to be in the same ballpark as the ages of the actors. I don’t think that type of age gap in a romantic pairing would have been considered at all intrinsically comical back in 1955.
No, ISTM that what’s intended to be funny about that movie (and play) is the contrast between the infatuated Richard’s colorful imaginings about a possible affair and his more mundane feelings of caution and guilt for being tempted by the possibility. Basically, Walter Mitty but with a more singleminded Hawt Babe theme.
I see your point, and that does make a difference. As per the screenplay:
Not seeing this. McConaughey was playing a self-absorbed, insensitive douchebag so it just confirmed what I made of his character. Not offensive at all, except in the sense that I felt even more critical of the role he was playing, which made the film even stronger.
It was based on a true story.
Which makes me think they wouldn’t make Teen Wolf now days.
It depicted teenage drug use, underage drinking, one night stand sex, and dangerous car roof surfing.
I know, but the real racers couldn’t have been as stupid as the ones in the movie. Forget about driving to California, they couldn’t find water if you pushed them out of a boat.
Sure they could. And they were. Someone staged one of those races in the 80’s from the state border to Appleton (IIRC) and we pulled over a couple of them as they passed through Milwaukee County (I was a Deputy during my first LEO career). One dope had aluminum foil in his wheel wells and a rubber band on the mic key of his CB believing those things would mess with our radar units. Then he got pissed and insisted it couldn’t have been his car we clocked as he had jammed our radar.
Another guy had a stethoscope around his neck and said he was a doctor on his way to deliver a baby in Green Bay.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Did any of them try to tell you that the two priests in a Ferrari were flashers?
Heh. No. But for a while after that movie came out there were some men who were wearing clergy collars and even a few women who wore a nuns habit thinking it would get them leniency.
My favorite is when a woman says “I thought cops didn’t give pretty girls tickets”.
The reply to that is “We don’t. Heres your ticket”. 
That’s hilarious. Somebody should have told him the tinfoil goes on your head not your wheels.
Many feature movies are based on something that should be nothing more than what should be nothing more than a 10 minute subplot, or even less substantial than that. I don’t think it leads to good movies in general. We have a difference of opinion about the quality of this movie, and not that much difference because I don’t rate it highly anyway, but in regards to the thread topic I don’t think it would be difficult to remake this movie, without needing great changes.
These bleeds?
One surprising side effect of COVID is that the unofficial coast-to-coast driving speed record was broken repeatedly, because of the nationwide reduction in traffic. Still seems pointless and dangerous to me…
I have never seen Teen Wolf, are you suggesting that it depicted these things in a manner that would now be unacceptable? Because obviously these things are still commonly shown.
I worked at the movie theater when I was 16, and we showed one of Clint Eastwood’s earlier American movies, “Coogan’s Bluff,” directed by the great Don Siegel. At one point, Coogan observes the noisy goings-on at a New York City police precinct. An elderly woman, dressed like a bag lady and obviously not mentally well, is accusing at least two people, one of them a police officer, of attempted rape. The scene was played for laughs. And it got laughs at the time. That, and several other cringe-inducing scenes, were cut from the movie when it went to television. Whether they are included in the video release, I don’t know, but they were cut from the version I saw on TCM.
Can you imagine? Rape and dementia used for laughs? Well, that was the 60s for you. Other than that, it’s actually a pretty good action/adventure movie, though thoroughly dated.
I’m pretty sure TCM doesn’t edit or censor the films they air. Maybe you were watching it on AMC or another channel.
Not a movie, but I have a book called Golfing for Cats with a big swastika on the cover. I don’t know if that would get made today.
I think you’ve possibly been whooshed. You cut off the only bit that’d probably be an issue today. At least, if the popularity of Euphoria is anything to go by…
Well thanks for that rabbit hole. So much for getting morning chores done.
HILARIOUS !!! For whatever reason, that blooper stuck with me and my group of friends. We still use it to this day ! (I didn’t think anyone else remembered that one !)
Yeah, the theme in this thread is the idea that modern audiences lack any awareness of nuance in older film. And by older we are talking about only a few decades here.
No doubt the people defending films here have skin in the game with rose tinted nostalgia, but what would you expect of us? 30 years ago I saw Revenge of the Nerds and never thought it condoned rape. Some people now say it condones rape, or implies date rape is ok, or advocates for rape or is at least rape positive, but I did not feel that way as a teen 30 years ago when I was the target audience for this film. So the discussion must then go to either I was more comfortable with rape than I am willing to admit to myself or the film was shown in a different time with other things happening or not and that influenced the audience appropriately to the idea it’s just a comedic lark that is not to be taken seriously.
So here we are on an endless carousel of misunderstanding. Don’t mind me, I’ll show myself out.