JuniorJones
TR.N Staff Member
Dr.Sartorius said:Huh?!!??
Well I guess it has something to do with what the life expectancy was back then. 30 years old was probably middle age.
If what you're saying is true...
Just to add an additional element -
If you've seen the transcript of the original Raiders of the Lost Ark story conference among Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan there a segment that is quite uncomfortable reading due to the morality being discussed regarding statutory rape and promiscuity.
G = George Lucas, S = Steven Spielberg, L = Lawrence Kasdan.
G - We have to get them cemented into a very strong relationship. A bond.
L - I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it.
G — I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
L — And he was forty-two.
G — He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship.
S — She had better be older than twenty-two.
G — He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.
G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…
S — She has pictures of him.
G -There would be a picture on the mantle of her, her father and hi,. She was madly in love with him at the time and he left her because obviously it wouldn't work out. Now that she's 25 and she's been living in Napel since she was eighteen. It's not only that they like each other, it's a very bizarre thing. It gives you lots of stuff to play off of between them. Maybe she still likes him. It's something he'd rather forget and not have come up again. This give her a lot of ammunition to fight with.
S - In a way, she could say, "You've made me this hard"
G - This is a resource that you can either mine or not. It's not as blatanr as we're talking about. You odn't think about it that much. You don't immediatley realise how old she was at the time. It would be subtle, She could talk about it. "I was Jailbait the last time we were together. She can flaunt it at him, but at the same time she never says, "I was 15 years old." Even if we don't mention it, when we go to chas the part we're going to and up with a woman who's about 23 and a hero who's about 35.
The dialog of that scene in the film.
INDY: I never meant to hurt you.
MARION: I was a child! I was in love.
INDY: You knew what you were doing.
MARION: It was wrong. You knew it.
INDY: Look, I did what I did. I don’t expect you to be happy about it. But maybe we can do each other some good.
MARION: Why start now?
INDY: Shut up and listen for a second. I want that piece your father had. I’ve got money.
MARION: How much?
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