Disturbing
after all these years it remains disturbing to me. a big WTF?
shareDisturbing because it's an old (41) man having sex with his daughter's friend, and his best friend's daughter, on top of that. It's the sort of thing that in real life, when presented with a temptation like this, you have to turn yourself off and not let into your head, let alone actually do. After seeing this again after many years, I see it as an old man's fantasy. It's the young girl who keeps chasing the old man. Right. He is trying to stave her off. Sure. She's the one that's after him. Mmm hmmm. It's what every rapist says to his victim "C'mon, you know you want it". This is his version of what happened. I'd like to see her version of what happened. Probably very different.
share...and today, Demi Moore is married to a guy... how much younger than her? And they all hang out with her ex husband?
Now <that's> disturbing. "Rio" is only a movie.
And almost equally disturbing is your overanalyzed interpretation of this as his story, and you want to hear her story because he was obviously some old fart fantasizing, and what young girl wants a guy her father's age. God knows, we've never heard of that before, especially with the guy has a lot of money.
It's a movie. If they wanted you to think that hard, they'd have told you to.
Wow. Your second point is alarming. Not the fact that you prefer not to analyze your movies, which is your choice, but that you need to repress others' attempts to do so, which is pathological. If you were old enough to watch this picture then you should be old enough to understand that there are more ways of looking at things than your own.
shareI am 21 years old and let me tell you it is not uncommon for a young girl to lust after an older man. When I was sixteen I had an enormous crush on my friends dad, and while I never acted on it or told my friend, he was one of my biggest fantasies. You must be one of those men who think only teenage boys dream about being with older women. Well honey, it ain't so. I can't tell you how many girls in my highschool use to drool over our principal. Some words of advice, wake up and get your head out of the sand.
share"I am 21 years old and let me tell you it is not uncommon for a young girl to lust after an older man."
And old man who looks like Michael Caine? *wretch*
Sorry, it's not very plausible.
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You're a very shallow person if you think that looks are the only issue.
First, anyone with class would be intrigued by his distinguished looks and his obvious breeding and intelligence. You've shown that you don't recognize those things.
I am 22 years old and I find Michael Caine very attractive in this movie.
Things just got interestinger.
I agree that Michael Caine is very attractive in this movie and even more attractive in other movies...
And to make a point....I believe they actually tried to make him less attractive with the big dorky glasses and his stiff curly hair kept close to his scalp. I think they did this because it added to the comedy of the movie which was great by the way...the comedy and the movie itself.
To be perfectly honest, when I was a teenager, any chick that more than about three or four years older than us wasn't of much interest for the most part, fantasy wise. Of course, if she was showing interest, it would be a different story, but fantasy? No, a 40 year old woman wasn't in my dreams when I was 17.
...however, it seems that any stories of young women and older guys seems to have entirely escaped fillum, unless he simply considers that any time an older guy and a younger chick hook up, it's because he raped her. Perhaps that's *his* fantasy.
Don't presume that you were the norm for teenage boys. You'd be wrong.
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Hmmm, so the recurring theme that an old man's fantasy is to be the unprincipled patsy that cannot resist the seduction of a teenager is the plot here?
Hollywood, TV shows, and commercials have had that stereotype for quite some time where all men are inept horndogs that either do not think at all, or only briefly with the little head. Jennifer Garner in ALIAS looked barely legal, and was able to get the 'bad guys' at least distracted by her attire and actions. I hardly think it is a coincidence the series finished when she started a family in real life, and no longer looked the way she began in the show.
If you buy into that whole mess, you might as well not watch anything for entertainment, just go straight to the truly disturbing stuff and watch the Springer Show. Even the Montel Williams show has the 'paternity test' theme now and again, and one girl had been back eight times with the guy she was sure was the father of her baby, (still had not found the right one in eight tries!!) Just who is chasing who?
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Maybe it is an age/generation thing as to what is disturbing.
More and more, the young women are far from being helpless frail flowers. The local TV news was interviewing a family that had a Peeping Tom looking in their 16 year old daughter's window. The police caught the "suspect" at a hospital being treated for facial cuts! The girl saw the guy, and instead of cringing in terror and panic at a guy looking in her window, she smashed the window into his face!
Even I was told by an older co-worker that an 18 year old co-worker was interested in older men. This young woman had about seven weeks before she reported to Army Boot Camp. I cannot believe it was a co-incidence that within 30 minutes she came over to my work area and leaned or bent over in her low cut top, every time, in my direction. She was also standing about as close as possible to me, and she frequently bumped me with her arms. I didn't pursue it, but the signs were pretty clear that she wanted a date for the weekend.
I find the presumption that a girl would/cound not be interested in an older man or try to seduce and older man disturbing.
Jennifer Garner in ALIAS looked barely legal, and was able to get the 'bad guys' at least distracted by her attire and actions. I hardly think it is a coincidence the series finished when she started a family in real life, and no longer looked the way she began in the show.
Jennifer Garner wasn't that young when ALIAS started, and at no point during the run of the show did she look barely legal. share
If you had actually seen the movie you'd have learned her version of what happened, since the movie is intercut with flashbacks of the characters expressing their thoughts to an interviewer/camera.
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greatly put Fillumfan!
btw this motif is in almost in every donen movie, sick.
I'd do her immediately. Sometimes life gives you an opportunity you just must take. A fresh out of high school girl presenting herself to you like that is one of them.
share"Disturbing because it's an old (41) man having sex with his daughter's friend"
Kind of worse than that, as Caine was 51, not 41 in 1984. That makes him THREE times her age. Plus, all the scenes when he talks about being at her christening, or at the hospital when she was born... yuk yuk yuk.