Bob being creepy by talking about Lindsey
near the end of the movie, Bob gets a bit creepy when hes telling Linda that hes going to tear off Lindsey's clothes and molest her or whatever.
He wasn’t being serious, it was a joke. A bad joke, but still just a joke.
shareI dont care. It was and still is a cringey bad scene. What were Debra Hill and Carpenter thinking at the time anyway?
shareYes I know. I understand. But there are people who have a dark sense of humor in real life too, so it is realistic in that sense. Plus Michael does end up killing him so there’s that.
If this movie was made today, they probably wouldn’t have included a line like that because audiences are generally far more sensitive now. But I just look at it as a drunk and dumb teenager making a stupid joke to his airheaded girlfriend right before sex.
It was a private joke - seen through the lens of this film - between two teenagers that were hot for each other. Their main concern was whether they were going to have privacy at this house where Annie was babysitting. They were of course ecstatic when Annie informed them that Lindsey would be hanging out the rest of the evening across the street. It seems clear that this is the only reason that Lindsey was on Bob's mind at all. Not for one second did I consider seriously that Bob would do such a thing. His joke is now being filtered through the merciless judgment of modern eavesdroppers that love to take private comments out of context and destroy people for the thrill of it. These sorts of judgments are really dumb and reveal more about the ugly natures of the critics than their targets. People are taking a throwaway spontaneous joke that in no way represented the reality of the character's intentions way too seriously.
shareOh no. You've come on here and spouted common sense. That will never do.
shareWas your post directed at me or the OP? Because I already know all of that and even pointed it out to them already.
shareI don't know. It was directed at anyone who was morally offended by Bob's comment, as if it reflected the depravity of John Carpenter and Debra Hill specifically. If somebody were to say something like that in that context to me in real life, I'd wince and think "bad joke." But I wouldn't be offended in the slightest and wouldn't think it reflected badly on the jokester.
shareOh okay gotcha. And yes, I agree.
shareWhat if someone wrote it down asked you to say it and then put it in a movie?
shareYeah, everyone knows the dude was just being a dick.
shareI can tell you what they weren't thinking:
"Oh, gee, people in 2021 will have no sense of humor at all. We better not make any jokes in this movie!"