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Chances of this movie being made today 0.0%

posted 5 years ago by Redsfan001 (6174)
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You - "Hey I got this idea for a hit movie! A ambitious sexually frustrated high school senior gets involved with a call girl, interesting things happen and he ends up turning his home into whorehouse while his parents are in Europe! It's a sure hit!"

Hollywood 2020 - What are you thinking? Are you insane? We are trying to make young minds believe they are super heroes and the real world doesn't exist!

You - Sometimes you just have to say "What the fuck"

Hollywood 2020- Next!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oh, I think it could be. This movie came out after the women's movement. The problem is, no one would make a film like this right now because it wouldn't be 'cool'.

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 5 years ago

Interesting observation.

High School boys still think about sex. Perhaps the easy access to porn has made getting the real thing look like too much work.

In the 1980s many high school aged males would give a week's pay for a high quality call girl.

Not today, why do that when you have access to over a million porn clips.

So maybe you do have a point.

[–] bobbydallas (8619) 4 years ago

combine that with sex dolls, robots, etc.

yah.. opening a brothel will be a losing business, nothing risky about that.

[–] GretchenRoss (75) 4 years ago

"Are you insane? We are trying to make young minds believe they are super heroes and the real world doesn't exist!"

Yeah, cuz an affluent teen running a whorehouse from his home for a weekend without getting caught is just as realistic/something we want "young minds to believe" 🙄

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Misfire.

[–] Roguemail (1615) 4 years ago

Its a very saddening notion that people seem to be hell bent on seeking out old movies and TV shows from the past, and coming up with 'startling revelations' that they are offensive, sexist, promote drug use, promiscuity etc...well a big fucking DUH!

Its almost like they think such movies are obscure and they are the only ones that know about them.

My attitude about all such movies is that they exist, it was a different time, we don't live or behave the same way, we accept that society and humanity has changed. And leave it at that. I am not into censorship or revisionism. Let it be. Slap a warning and explanation at the beginning if you want.

But this constant faux outrage at older movies is just getting stupid.

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 3 years ago

I'm a gen Xer so I'm sandwiched between two giant generations. I was a teen when this movie came out.

The very permissive attitude towards sexuality from the boomers is slowly but surely being replaced by a more Puritan type era of the 1950's by the Millennials.

It's not just high school movies that are getting rid of sexuality in film, but pretty much all Hollywood films in general. Even BOND films 007 has no dick swagger.

We Gen Xers are just the observers.

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 3 years ago

So on this same logic , "American Pie" would not be made today?

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 3 years ago

Yes, sexuality in films is pretty much gone in 2021.

It's a little bizarre to me because newer generations are watching and are exposed to more porn than my generation or boomers ever watched.

For some reason millennials want sexuality to be compartmentalized to just porn only.

[–] aavfreak (3359) 3 years ago

It's been a bizarre ride. We can see people killing each other on screen all day every day. Even during prime time broadcast shows, but throw in a little sexual activity and it's "holy shit, we can't let our kids see that!"

It seems like upside down world to me.

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 3 years ago

I'm thinking this could be a "standard" generational swing in attitudes towards sexuality in film.

Boomers were rebelling against the greatest generation and the silent generations lack of sexuality in film with Barbarella (68). The Jazz age in the 20's was highly sexual and liberating until the "Fatty" Arbuckle affair pretty much killed it and new standards were introduced.

Some great films were still made in the 1940's and 50's so I'm still optimistic. But film without sexuality is painting with one less color.

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 3 years ago

so are there *any* teen films these days ?

I suspect the torrent of MCU sewage is occupying the teen's cinema time/money and drowning out anything else.

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 3 years ago

Perhaps. But Iron Man's Tony Stark was stud bedding beautiful women until he was domesticated in later movies, and now his character doesn't even look/think about other women. In fact, NONE of the super hero characters show any signs of sexuality.

The #metoo movement and Harvey Weinstein trial pretty much put the nail on the coffin of sexuality in film, which was fast heading that direction anyway.

How long a basic part of human nature is neglected in film is anybody's guess.

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 2 years ago

The #metoo movement and Harvey Weinstein trial pretty much put the nail on the coffin of sexuality in film

Well , I can see how that might put the lid on rape , coersion , controlling behavior, bullying and bribery as a storyline (and casting routine) , but surely hollywood is aware of non predatory, non mysogenistic techniques too?

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 2 years ago

The basic sexual instinct in men that was shown in this film, WAS seen as a normal healthy sex drive in the 1980's. It has now been deemed "predatory" by Hollywood.

If you could direct me to a recent big budget movie in the last 5 years that depicts a sex drive in men similar to this movie that wasn't portrayed as predatory, I would appreciate it.

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

Of course not. The audience for this doesn’t exist anymore. Current teens aren’t interested in ‘80s teen culture because they can’t relate to it. They are growing up in very different times. Even the premise would fall apart because Joel’s parents would definitely have camera surveillance and would definitely be checking in on Joel.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Wow, creepy!

[–] MikeCable (1866) 3 years ago

I think a lot of movies made for that demographic today need to have a strong merchandise and franchise potential to pay for all the production companies and advertising involved, otherwise studios aren't interested. Sadly, comic book films meet requirement this precisely and so we get a neverending stream of them, and then they get rebooted.

[–] thbryn (231) 3 years ago

Take a look at the cast. For that reason alone it would be tough to get this made (the same way).

[–] Martoto (5054) 3 years ago

Society was better when it portrayed a middle class teenage high schoolers being pimps as a lark.

[–] Ldlamb (649) 3 years ago

True

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 3 years ago

So what are the equivalent (or any) "Teen Movie" these days?

[–] Who (5146) 3 years ago

The Edge of Seventeen
The Fault in Our Stars

[–] Mustang (5520) 3 years ago

You'd need to have a group of women who who're themselves out as part of a business plan. It needs to be empowering. Throw in some incompetent white males, make it some of them abusive. And you're set.

It wouldn't be a fun movie but that's not the point of movies anymore.