This film is about a young man and an average-looking OLDER woman??? Not vice-versa, in the good way, like Sean Connery and Catherine-Zeta Jones in Entrapment???
Is this where political correctness has driven America to, as a society?
Gross.
As I pointed out in another thread, had this script focused on a 25 year-old MAN and a 15 year-old GIRL there would literally be protests.
What's engraging is so many of the positive reviews are from female critics. Guess the "Me2Movement" has a one-way door.
Eloquently put. The hypocrisy of the SJW Illuminati knows no bounds.
shareIs Alana Kane, the character, 28 or 25 years old?
When asked by Bradley Cooper's character in the truck she initially says 28 but he doesn't hear her and asks again, to which she says 25. Is she lying and is actually 28 or was that a mistake from the actress left in by the director?
Well...this being an "art" film (in which exact plot reasons are not given for everything), we can figure it was a mistake(was not Alana Haim 28 at the time of filming?) that PTA left in...to be devious.
PTA already had a "problematic" romance here if Alana (fictional) were 25...28 would make it WORSE.
So..we are told nothing. The "fictional" Alana could be revealing her real age, or maybe she wanted to be "older" for Jon Peters...there is no explanation.
What remains is a movie about a boy who starts the movie at 15, probably finishes it at 16 (he can drive) and has something much more than an infatuation with a girl who is either 25 OR 28: he has a friendship. He has a business partnership. He has a bond.
I won't take the bait on this being a "perverse" relationship. Alana is NEVER predatory towards Gary (he pursues her), they spend most of the movie as friends and business partners, and in the real world in America (then and now) , sexual activity is rather a teenage domain, to start("legal" -- even to get married -- is different in many states, and younger in some states than in others.)
In real life, I have seen many teenage romances which are chaste -- kissing only. Sometimes for religious reasons, sometimes for other reasons. There is no reason to assume that Gary and Alana will become sexual at the end of this film. If he's 16, he can wait (in California) to turn 18. Or they can move to another state.
The point of the story is that these two people are right for each other -- when many others are NOT -- and love can be that way sometimes.
Surely in the real world, after 18, there are relationships and marriages with age gaps of large amounts -- men to women, women to men. Second wives and second husbands especially. 5 years, 10 years, 20 years....
So, Alana CAN be 28. No problem.
She showed her boobs to an underage boy.
share...but slapped him when he merely ASKED if he could touch them.
And then said "see you tomorrow," hence returning to their "business relationship" and not allowing this incident to linger.
In terms of the film story itself, Alana had been asked by an agent if she would do a topless scene in a movie, said "yes" -- changed to "no" when Gary gave her a bad look, and then noted (in the car going home) that she WOULD go topless for a movie. Gary asked why she would not for him, she said "why don't you ask a girl your own age?" but then...relented.
She was proving her point to Gary. Topless...yes. Touching or physicality or lust...no.
It's sexual harassement + assault then.
shareThe actress was 28 at the time, so I think it was a mistake. She said her real age.
shareThe actress was 28 at the time, so I think it was a mistake. She said her real age.
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Yes, she says that to Bradley Cooper(who evidently awed her.)
When she first gives her age to Gary (in the school gym) she really staggers on the number "25." She was probably about to say 28 and caught herself.
I think Cooper Hoffman was 18 during filming so the 10-year gap was there in real life. But he was 18.
No.
shareIt wasnt very woke. Pretty good film actually. I dont know why PTA even included the age difference, it would have worked just fine as a straightforward romance.
shareWhy don’t you just fuck off with the same posts that you do over and over again thinking your being smart but in reality your just an attention seeking twat with nothing better to do
shareIt doesn't matter how old/young that PIG of a woman is ... Talk about getting the shit kicked out of you with the ugly stick.
shareHi there my friend, its not woke at all, its the 70’s! Lol.
shareI dont know why PTA even included the age difference, it would have worked just fine as a straightforward romance.
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He put the age difference in there for two reasons, I think:
ONE: PTA said he actually SAW a teenage boy hit on a girl in line to get his photo taken at a high school (why PTA was in the vicinity, I don't know.) PTA felt he had a "great idea": what if the boy succeeded and the girl showed up for a date? (Funny how PTA indicates he didn't think it would be a problem with audiences, but the way he sets up the sexless relationship, it isn't.)
TWO: In terms of the story, without the age difference, there is no movie. If Gary and Alana were close to the same age, they just flirt, date and get together. No problem. There's no agonizing barrier to their love story. But with the age difference, there is. The two of them try their damndest for the whole movie to find other age-appropriate romantic partners while maintaining a friend relationship -- but it doesn't work. "They are made for each other" and the movie proves that point by the end.