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How Times Have Changed

  • 11-06-2016 11:00pm
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭


    A few years ago, I saw a movie in which the following happened:
    • Guy sees girl and falls for her straight away. She doesn't notice him.
    • Girl gets in her car and drives away.
    • Guy gets in his car and follows her.
    • Girl, realising she's being followed, drives faster, but guy keeps up.
    • Guy catches girl and runs her off the road, nearly in to a ditch.
    • Guy propositions girl at the side of the road, insisting they meet up later.
    Sounds like a serious movie, right? The guy's a creepy stalker, the girl's in for a fight for her life, by the sounds of it. Except ... the guy is Fred Astaire, the girl is Ginger Rogers, and the movie is called The Gay Divorce (1934) a.k.a. The Gay Divorcee. She falls for him, there's a complicated misunderstanding involving a husband she's trying to divorce (hence the title), and Fred & Ginger do a lot of dancing.

    Even then, she doesn't seem all that willing, and almost has to be forced in to dancing, or so it seems:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydxcHACwX4Y


    Can you imagine any guy trying such aggressive tactics today, in real life or in the movies? The Social Justice Warriors would crucify Fred on Twitter. Do you have any more examples of behaviours that would never be tolerated today?

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



Comments

  • #2
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    A man was raped in 40 Days and 40 Nights and put across as a comedic act.


    No idea if that fits in with this thread, but I'll very rarely every get to bring it up again and this thread seemed ideal.


  • #3
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    razorblunt wrote: »
    A man was raped in 40 Days and 40 Nights and put across as a comedic act.

    Likewise in Get Him to the Greek. Although that whole film was an ugly assault on my sense of humour.


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