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Mighty Maggie [Spoilers] Nasty Surprise

posted 8 years ago by megan-l-hurwitt
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I enjoyed the movie for the most part (I'll see anything with Sebastan) but I thought what the movie did to the charactee Maggie in the last 30 seconds was a nasty surprise. the movie presents Maggie as a wholesome, somewhat sheltered cheery teenage girl who sees the best in people and has no idea that she's being sabotaged by Greggory, or used as a revenge pawn by Tucker. So to vilify her for falling for Gregory's manipulation tactics under the guise of protecting her career (a valid concern for a teen professional athlete with limited career longevity) is mean spirited. getting her knocked up is even worse, because it implies heavily that she, a virgin who hadn't even kissed a boy before meeting Hope, was manipulated by an authority figure she trusted into having unprotected (and possibly underage) sex. And it's supposed to be treated for laughs at the character's expense. If I were the actress portraying Maggie I'd have been pissed.

[–] polexia_rogue 8 years ago

i think the fact that Maggie's mom was also a young mom or teen mom was meant to be a hint that women in her family are easily manipulated.

I wish there was a final "ending card" that showed Lance loosing his job and going to jail.

"For the purposes of this section, a "minor" is a person
under the age of 18 years and an "adult" is a person
who is at least 18 years of age.

(b) Any person who engages in an act of unlawful sexual
intercourse with a minor who is not more than three years
older or three years younger than the perpetrator, is
guilty of a misdemeanor."
http://www.ageofconsent.com/california.htm

[–] lovelula 8 years ago

When at the competition (Worlds? Olympics? Can't remember) Maggie's mother jumps to her feet and cheers "I DON'T HAVE TO BE A CLEANER ANYMORE!" after Maggie wins, that was the first hint that Maggie and her mom weren't so innocent and earnest. I think that moment was a funny little dig at a certain well-known gymnast and her mother IRL.

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[–] DaliParton 8 years ago

Actually... the first hint that Maggie wasn't all that wholesome was when she spit her gum on the road. The writers were pretty clever with that scene, they layered it so it looked like they were just reinforcing some of the earlier scenes showing that Hope did care about the town (and the people in it) but it was really foreshadowing.

[–] rocktheworld2314 8 years ago

Unfortunately, there is a history of young female athletes being taken advantage of by their coaches. This was especially true for Soviet gymnasts in the 70s and 80s, so the idea that a girl would get pregnant by her coach unfortunately not a crazy idea.

Does suck for Maggie's character though and Lance was obviously a sexual predator who took advantage of his pupil.

[–] philoj 8 years ago

This sounds like a far, far more interesting movie than "The Bronze"

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Philo's Law: To learn from your mistakes, you have to realize you're making mistakes.

[–] MariMcCabe 8 years ago

Even though he was a jerk, I never took Lance for a sexual predator so the ending was a surprise to me.

[–] camel-wides 8 years ago

even when it was made clear he popped the lead's cherry, and behaved ina manner that was both sleazy, and manipulative to her. not to mention how in the bar he manipulated her into drinking shots, knowing how to push her buttons?

[–] Clothes-Off 8 years ago

Are you really for real bitching about the story of the movie you did not write/shoot/produce???

Uh, yeah. I think that's what he/she for real was doing. That's kinda what happens in comment threads.

And not liking the ending? Whoa--he/she was way out of line. :-O

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[–] angel1008 8 years ago

We are never told, as an audience, how old Maggie was in the end scenes when they are playing the "where are they now" sequence. My guess is she was 16 when she won gold. The text said she never won another gold, because she got pregnant with Lance's baby. Since Olympics happen every 4 years, she was probably about 19 or 20 when she became pregnant and could not compete. That is what I took from it. There was no timeline, so that is more plausible than Lance being a predator.

[–] patolue 8 years ago

When Hope is at the grave of Coach P pouring the soda you can see that she died at 3 июнь 2015 that is June 3rd 2015, so if Maggie was at that time 16, and she goes to the Olympics (Rio 2016), she was a minor when she get pregnant!!

[–] gcarras 8 years ago

patolue:
"When Hope is at the grave of Coach P pouring the soda you can see that she died at 3 июнь 2015 that is June 3rd 2015, so if Maggie was at that time was 16, and she goes to the Olympics (Rio 2016), she was a minor when she get pregnant!!"

The girl who plays her isn't much older.

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[–] fire-baby 8 years ago

olympics are every 4 years... if she won gold in rio 2016 she could've gotten pregnant anytime after, between then and 2020...

It's mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality...

[–] doggie_rodriguez 8 years ago

Are you really for real bitching about the story of the movie you did not write/shoot/produce???

Are you saying that the only people that can comment on a movie are the people that made it?

You do realize where you're at, right?

[–] mutationjason 8 years ago

How do you guys know she was underage? I figured she was at least 16 while training with hope so she could be over 18 before the next games. He was a scumbag so he manipulated an innocent, sweet girl. She's gullible so she probably bought into I'm a gold medalist you need to be trained by perfection.

[–] mjz688 8 years ago

The age of consent is 16 in most states. It's 18 in California, but they could have had sex legally in many other states.

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[–] Petrungaro 7 years ago

Maggie knew that Hope had tried to sabotage her. Tucker was very manipulative and probably talked her and her mom into moving to California, which is very tempting for someone from a small town in Ohio.

I think it would've played better if Maggie had shown up at the mall and talked it over with Hope. They could hug, cry and such...

But it shows how people in the world of gymnasts are superficial.