Did anyone else think it was kind of shocking how they used the term making love so freely back then. Obviously they used the term to mean courting, but still!
Chick: Hey, there's the girl you've got to make love to.
Mervyn: No, Chick. I'm not gonna make love to her.
She's only got a couple of buck teeth.
there were some movies that really were made with much less restraints even back from the 30s. i didnt find it that shocking.
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"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire
The term "making love" did not mean the same thing back then. Back then, "making love" could mean even something so mild as reciting a love poem to a person of the opposite sex. It's one of those words whose meanings change, like gay (used to mean happy and carefree), and "fag" once meant "cigarette". Meanings change.
shareYeah, so many things change over the years. The other day, I was watching the Marx Bros film A DAY AT THE RACES with a friend, and we got to the part where Groucho says, "Well she's not exactly my type, but for you I'd make love to a crocodile." and I looked over at my friend, and she looked absolutely disgusted! I had to explain that back then it meant something totally different.
"There's one way to find out if a man is honest:ask him. If he says "Yes" you know he is crooked."
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Yeah, it's weird how that nowadays we say "pitching woo".
If we hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate.