2023-10-10
1 小时 15 分钟If Adrian Lyne’s Lolita became a case study of what Hollywood and America didn’t want to acknowledge about its sexualization of young girls, as the 90s came to a close the culture was full of “acceptable” depictions of teens in heat. Two hit films from 1998 and 1999, Wild Things and Cruel Intentions, adapted classic templates of adult sexual manipulation to turn teen girls into femme fatales (probably not coincidentally, both featured actresses, Neve Campbell and Sarah Michelle Gellar, who were famous for playing high school students on TV). Also no coincidence: these films entered the culture simultaneous to the debut of 17 year-old Britney Spears, whose videos and persona centered her status as “not a girl, not yet a woman.” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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To learn more, welcome to another episode of you must remember this, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment of our ongoing series, erotic nineties.
Too sexy for my, too sexy for my love sex.
David.
Just sex.
Not love, just sex.
And sex just isn't cool without condom for protection.
You're a hooker.
He talked about pornographic material.
He gave me a lot of pleasure so we can show the sex act all over the place.
Sexim I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this.
In last week's episode, we talked about Adrian Leinz Lolita, a film adaptation of what most would agree is history's greatest literary text about an adult mans sexual obsession with an adolescent.
That film was re edited to comply with a new federal anti child pornography law, which stipulated that it was illegal to depict people under the age of 18 in sexual situations, even if they were played by adult actors.
Lolita was rejected by every major Hollywood distributor out of fear that its subject matter would prove toxic at the box office.
It was finally shown on Showtime and released in a small number of theaters in September 1998.