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1 year ago8 points(+0/-0/+8Score on mirror)2 children
This changed my opinion on the films when I read it years ago. I also wondered what the hell Lucas was thinking. My opinion of him dropped sharply. I realize that 13-15 is normal historically for girls' marriages, but it left me with a very uneasy feeling. I haven't watched the films since.
If you read the entire transcript, it’s not as bad as they make it sound in articles. They start off by saying that they want this previous relationship between Indy and Marian where she is holding a grudge and thinking she was taken advantage of. He was a college student tutoring under Ravenwood and she was his teenage daughter. They didn’t want her to be 18 because the premise was this was puppy dog love in her eyes and he was more hardened. They suggest making her 17 in the backstory, then wonder if that is young enough or if she would have been too cynical at that age. Then they clearly start joking about making her younger and younger. I think it was dudes joking around and trying to be monstrous, not like they really meant it. They’re exaggerating to absurdity. But a transcript doesn’t convey tone or laughter. Realistically Indy was maybe 22 and she was maybe 16 or 17. So edgy but not incredibly perverse.
Even today the same reasoning would apply. If you were writing a story about a girl in her first adoring puppy love, would making her 17 or 18 make sense? Many 17 year old girls nowadays have had 10+ partners, hook ups, threesomes.
In the movie she slaps him and says, “I was a child!” but to me that’s always been female hysteria, not literal, like she was actually a child. He says she knew what she was doing and I think his version is more accurate. She gets over her grudge too and they get married which also suggests she wasn’t ACTUALLY a child, she was just bitter and trying to make him feel guilty because he left her to go adventuring.
Williams' soundtrack is still top tier.
Even today the same reasoning would apply. If you were writing a story about a girl in her first adoring puppy love, would making her 17 or 18 make sense? Many 17 year old girls nowadays have had 10+ partners, hook ups, threesomes.
In the movie she slaps him and says, “I was a child!” but to me that’s always been female hysteria, not literal, like she was actually a child. He says she knew what she was doing and I think his version is more accurate. She gets over her grudge too and they get married which also suggests she wasn’t ACTUALLY a child, she was just bitter and trying to make him feel guilty because he left her to go adventuring.