Can we talk about Netflix "Cuties"? Men--dads--tell me it's no big deal

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[–]Thatstealthygal 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Blue Lagoon is a movie in which Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, who were both young (but he wasn't AS young), play shipwrecked kids who grow up on an idyllic island, discover sex, have a baby and eventually take a boat out to sea and eat poisoned berries to suicide. It's based on an Edwardian (I think) novel and it's both uncomfortable and hilariously bad.

I think OP means Endless Love, in which Brooke Shields plays a teenager who has sex for the first time while her super liberal mother watches joyfully (but unseen); later the boyfriend gets obsessed with her and it all goes horribly wrong.

There was a DEEP fascination with underage sexuality in the 70s, for certain.

Oh and Pretty Baby is DEEPLY disturbing. It's not an "awareness" film as I remember it - it's about a photographer who becomes fascinated by the women who work in a brothel at the turn of the last century, including the child daughter of one of the working girls whose virginity is sold to the highest bidder.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe I am misremembering, but didn' t the director of Pretty Baby try to have Shields naked (or have a graphic sex scene) for it? I remember reading something like that, and that it wasn' t done only because the other actress in the movie (Susan Sarandon?) told the director to fuck off.

[–]Thatstealthygal 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wouldn't be surprised. I'd forgotten that the storyline develops so that Brooke's character forms a sexual relationship with the photographer who simultaneously treats her like a father, and she's all of 12. It's extremely gross.

I think she's naked on a silver platter in the "auction" scene but in such a way that nothing is really seen.

[–]WrongToy[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Y'all are triggering my memories of long ago Time magazine and my local paper going into how that was uncool at the time (1978). By 1982 however that same columnist was harping openly about how Shields was hot. Shields was 15 at the time.

I really dislike Shields, because when she came of age in 1985, she had a responsibility to step away from the "no one stands between me and my calvins" ads, not get more invested in them given that she was ONLY a celebrity because of her underage pedo-adjacent routine.

When Shields appeared in SVU as a grandma, I had to LOL. That woman has now had 37 years to acknowledge that what happened to her also affected an entire generation of young girls.

She has never acknowledged, let alone apologised.