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Post by pathtaken on Jan 16, 2014 13:06:14 GMT -4
I've never lasted longer than 20 minutes viewing of any Woody Allen movie, apart from Annie Hall. Just don't get the fuss about his so-called genius. As a result of his personal behaviour, he's now permanently in the same category as Tom Cruise for me. I wouldn't watch one of his movies just because of his involvement. I really wanted to see Midnight in Paris for the storyline, loved that era, just couldn't, because of him.
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Post by LurkerNan on Mar 26, 2015 11:48:28 GMT -4
Mariel Hemingway interviewed about Woody Allen, and how she almost became another underage victim, although she doesn't say it that way. Her parent encouraged her to go to Paris with him with the knowledge that they would end up in bed together, but she wisely (and maturely) told him she just could not. Not many young girls would have that strength of will at that age.
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Post by Ladybug on Mar 26, 2015 12:00:36 GMT -4
At this point, this isn't surprising. Manhattan is a movie glorifying a grown man's sexual relationship with a teenage girl and making it seem totally romantic and normal. And Mariel Hemingway was gorgeous in it (she's still beautiful). I guess I'm a little shocked her parents were ok with this, but money and fame will make some people put their kids in horrible situations
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Post by discoprincess on Mar 26, 2015 12:30:48 GMT -4
Mariel Hemingway interviewed about Woody Allen, and how she almost became another underage victim When Fox News posted about this yesterday, a number of the posters in the comments section (yeah, I know) were nitpicking that since Mariel was 18 at the time, she technically wasn't underage. I think they are missing the point. Woody's come-on was still a sleazy thing to do, and I'm surprised Mariel's parents were okay with it. It wasn't as if Woody was asking for her hand in marriage!
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Post by Auroranorth on Mar 26, 2015 13:40:24 GMT -4
It says in the article she was 17. However, even if she was 18, he was in his forties and well old enough to be her father. Creepy as hell.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 13:50:53 GMT -4
At this point, this isn't surprising. Manhattan is a movie glorifying a grown man's sexual relationship with a teenage girl and making it seem totally romantic and normal. And Mariel Hemingway was gorgeous in it (she's still beautiful). I guess I'm a little shocked her parents were ok with this, but money and fame will make some people put their kids in horrible situations I'm not shocked her parents were okay with it, the Hemingways are a seriously effed up family. She's accused her father molesting both of her sisters.
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Post by Neurochick on Mar 26, 2015 13:53:25 GMT -4
It says in the article she was 17. However, even if she was 18, he was in his forties and well old enough to be her father. Creepy as hell. I agree. It's creepy because today, we've heard so many stories about younger women and much older men (not so much the other way around though) and the damage that it does to these very young women. Centuries ago it wasn't creepy because age of consent and life expectancy were lower; twenty was almost middle age. But today, no bueno.
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Post by discoprincess on Mar 26, 2015 14:37:49 GMT -4
I'm not shocked her parents were okay with it, the Hemingways are a seriously effed up family. She was hoping and expecting her parents to shut Woody down and they totally didn't. What a let-down.
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Post by chonies on Mar 26, 2015 15:03:33 GMT -4
Even if it wasn't creepy, it was still pretty grim. A 40 something man would have almost definitely been a widower and needed a younger bride to mind his children and do the woman's work essential to keeping a family alive while he ploughed their tenancy or engaged in his otherwise menial craft. Unless he was a king or something.
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Post by Wol on Mar 26, 2015 15:07:06 GMT -4
At this point, this isn't surprising. Manhattan is a movie glorifying a grown man's sexual relationship with a teenage girl and making it seem totally romantic and normal. And Mariel Hemingway was gorgeous in it (she's still beautiful). I guess I'm a little shocked her parents were ok with this, but money and fame will make some people put their kids in horrible situations Thank you! At the time it was considered so cute and quaint - aw, check out nebbishy little Woody and his gorgeous shiksa teenage girlfriend - and I never understood how people were not squicked out by that. And he kept throwing young girls in as potential love interests (Juliette Lewis, Emily Lloyd, Elisabeth Shue, Mira Sorvino)for years, going all out for "Whatever Works". I think these two quotes from Esquire - after Dylan Farrow went public in the NY Times - really say it all: "That idea: that sexual exploitation and education are conjoined also runs through the Allen canon. In Whatever Works (2009), the Allen character (played by Larry David) marries a childlike twenty-one-year-old, returning to the basic romantic situation that has motivated Allen's work from the beginning, and which you can see even in Annie Hall (1977): A man educates the women he sleeps with. He raises them. Once they're raised, he's no longer interested." And: "What the hell have we been watching all this time?"
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