I admit that I am naive, but I'm still going to ask my question. Does the film imply that Cable and Liat had sex? Other people have talked about them on other threads but I can't find a direct answer. Do we just assume that or is there other evidence?
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You are naive. I think the answer is obvious, a red blooded man in such an intimate situation with a gorgeous beautiful girl...........what would you do in such a circumstance.
Jeanne, Gloria, Toby, Mitzi, Eleanor(2), Frances, Deborah, Marion - are adorable - I love them all.
In the original story Bloody Mary made an unmistakable gesture and said "You did this with Liat!"
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Bloody Mary says that they should 'make love'
shareBloody Mary says that they should 'make love' ...............but saying "make love" in those bygone days, maybe meant something completely different to what it means these days ? .........(in 20's and 30's movies, making love DID mean something completly different, something much more innocent).
Jeanne, Gloria, Toby, Mitzi, Eleanor (2), Frances, Deborah, Marion, Alice, Darcey - are adorable.
But the implication is that native women have different sexual mores. Besides, in "compensation" for Cable's untimely death, the audience needs to be reassured that he had reached paradise.
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"But the implication is that native women have different sexual mores."
In those islands, yes, it is. And in those days it was a given. But Mary was pushing for an American husband for her son-in-law. And that was before Indonesia became a Muslim country. Nowadays, Liat would be stoned to death for even being in the same room with Joe Cable.
I don't see it as "compensation" at all, but I have a male viewpoint. To me it shows that Cable was all too ready to take advantage of the poor native girl, have his way with her, maybe leave her pregnant, and then do the Yankee two-step back home to his "Philadelia girl," who was not about to give him any without the ring on her finger.
I saw the whole show as a piece of musical propaganda against racism, with the Madame Butterfly theme thrown in for good measure.
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I saw the whole show as a piece of musical propaganda against racism, with the Madame Butterfly theme thrown in for good measure.
" 'make love' " in those bygone days, maybe meant something completely different to what it means these days"
Not to Mary it didn't. She was pretty blunt and plain about it. And in the book, Michener made it plain that they certainly did.
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The source material is James A Michener's book "Tales of the South Pacific" - and I think they did..
They did make love but back in the day"sex" was mostly implied rather than shown implicitly as in movies today. You are not naive just used to today's movies.
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