What, a couple of years, right? Like, two? |
That's not so much a sinister overtone as it is a crime. Like, an actual felony. |
"Yeah, I guess you could say that. I think I say I was 16. I don't know. That's always what I imagined is she was 16, he was 26. And he was her father's student. And it's left very mysterious."
-Karen Allen, not making
us feel better about that line
Um...mystery solved: Indiana Jones is a monster. The characters' ages are never established but I think we all sort of imagined, or hoped that Marion was at least eighteen, and that Indy was maybe a couple years older, but now we know that Allen was playing that scene as if there were a ten year difference, and she was underage and Indy was in a position of power while working for her father. All of which changes things.
If a fandom has cosplayers, you can trust that they know their stuff. |
Marion's full line is "I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it." So in many ways, I guess we probably should have clocked this as problematic a bit earlier than decades after the film's release. I only caught on a couple years ago, but like I said, I'd head canon'ed that she was speaking figuratively. Sure, Indiana Jones is a thief and a grave robber who kills a lot of people--I mean, a lot of people--but why would Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas make their protagonist an actual child predator?
Of course, a lot of the people he kills are Nazis, so... |
To be fair, different US states have different ages of consent, as young as 14.
ReplyDelete16. Not 14
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