RE: Redefining 'Age Gap'
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Mobbs? LOL! When I was 16 years old, I read a novel titled Harriet Said by British author Beryl Bainbridge for my book report in the eleventh grade. The novel was about a 13-year-old girl who becomes intimately involved with a 56-year-old man insofar as it leads to the murder of the man's wife. So many years later, this novel was made into a movie titled Heavenly Creatures. In the movie, the girl protagonist was 14 years old, and her forbidden lover was only 19 years old. By putting the two characters so close in age difference in the movie, the plot lost much of its shock effect that made the book a success.
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Well I mean... If you can completely remove the artist from the art then it might have some impact in and of itself. But the fact a human wrote it makes me feel a bit sus, only because I live in a world where epstein's island was a whole thing, and so much of it is out in the open.
There's that red hot chili pepper guy who is 61 and dating a 19 year old - and a ton more out there. Sure, legal, technically, but that's still pretty messed up. How long were they talking before the young girls became legal?
I just find it hard to believe somebody who doesn't personally have a fantasy about this stuff would write about it purely for arts sake. Like, I wouldn't write a book about the explosive romance between two ballet dancers - not my wheelhouse.
Also, why's my name funny -__-
The late Beryl Bainbridge was always known to flirt with taboos in her novels. The point that I'm trying to make is that if a movie producer turns a book into a movie, they really do no justice to the author if they whitewash an essential characteristic of the plot. In the book Harriet Said, the female protagonist was 43 years apart in age difference from the older man. In the movie, they were only 5 years apart. Because the story is about a forbidden liaison between a teenage girl and an older man, it loses much of its effect when the movie producer does what is basically changing the plot.
Mobbs? I wasn't laughing at your name. What I was laughing about was that when you said that 6.5 years was a fairly spacious age gap, it brought to mind how a movie producer shrank the age difference noticeably between the female teenage character and the older man from the book Harriet Said. It was almost as though the movie producer rewrote the story upon making it into a movie.
Oh, by the way, the actual name of the movie I was talking about was Heavenly Creatures rather than Heavenly Bodies. Sorry for any confusion that misnaming the movie in my previous reply may have caused. I never saw Heavenly Bodies.
I wasn't aware of the red hot chili pepper guy. Yeah, that sounds like a Lori Mattix thing. From what I heard, that was so common way back in the day.
Why did you downvote one of my articles?
I don't like your posts - Highly disturbing
Well, I could publish human-interest stories, and I do like to write them. If I did so, you probably would even like them. However, they don't get as many views as controversial articles do. And if I write controversial articles, then I have to be brutally honest about what I write instead of sugarcoating everything.
I guess I should have waited until the eighth day from the publication dates of my two latest articles before walking into the lion's den and posting anything that someone might take the wrong way. I would have been 20 cents richer than I am now. I didn't realize that this was going to get hostile. I guess I should publish my articles on Blurt.blog instead where there is no downvoting posts. 😒
I'm not throwing dead animals through your bedroom windows. It's just a downvote. We've all had them at various times. Anyway here is not the place to discuss
Hmmmm. Cowboy.curator just upvoted some of our comments on this discussion thread. Looks like we've both made ourselves a friend here.