Harry spying on the children from the roof with binoculars....Why was he doing that?? Isn't that disturbing for a grown man to be spying on children like that? Was Harry a pedophile because he loved children so much?? Great movie, but sort of questionable in some parts..
What are the purposes of signatures!!..
The things that he does seem very perverted, but he doesn't see it that way. He was just trying to see who was good and who was naughty and who was nice. Since he is "Santa Clause", then he must know who to give good presents too. While the naughty ones, like Moss, get dirt.
That's just through his POV, his intentions aren't meant to be perverted. But in NO way am I saying that staring at children through their windows is not wrong!
See you in the funnies.
in the next scene he writes their behavior in a big book. i thought the film was a masterpiece though!
"how about... a royal flush!" *loren avedon kicks a cauldron of boiling water into the bad guys*
It's funny that
Little suzzy's kissing the doll went on a lot longer from our p.o.v. That it did in Harry's mind
Women, can't live with em; So stuff your mother and live with that.(Bullet Tooth 504)
Harry wasn't a pedophile, he was just Harry and he was nuts. How about the scene where he tries to shimmy down the chimney? That isn't right either.
shareWhile I don't advocate spying on children through binoculars, is it more perverted to spy on them as Santa to know who's naughty or nice, or to read pedophilia into Santa's spying?
shareI was thinking the same thing in this day & age of doing the "PC" thing.
He DID do it innocently (kinda)..wanting to know which kids were naughty or nice. A scene like that would NEVER be greenlit in Hollywood today.
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Spying on children indeed is "not right." Nor is taking notes about them. Nor is PC filmmaking. Then again, children shouldn't be reading Penthouse.
I like those bizarro kinks in this film, though.
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No, spying on children is NOT alright...but then again, neither is going out and murdering people, even just for being complete a-holes.
Remember, Harry is mentally screwed-up. He has his own ideas of what's right and wrong, which in some cases differs from society's. In Harry's own mind, everything he does is right or at least justified. He wants to BE Santa. And part of the Santa mythos is that he sees everything children do. Thus Harry views spying on kids to see who's naughty and who's nice as just part of his duty; there's nothing sexual about it.
You, and it seems most people who replied here, missed the entire point
of the scene. Also I read a couple of replies that talk about how this
would never be greenlit "nowadays", and that it's so not "PC".
Do you really think that someone spying on children through their windows
from a rooftop would be acceptable in 1980, or 1970. or ever?? NO, of course
it wouldn't. It's what makes the scene work. We can see from the beginning
that this guy isn't right in the head. The man thinks he is Santa, so he
sees nothing wrong with any of it. Now in reality, from a legal standpoint,
looking through a window with a telescope or binoculars is legal, since
the people don't have any shades on the windows. But the idea behind it
seems creepy to most people, so it is supposed to seem creepy to the viewer
or the movie.
The fact that you would even come here to ask others if it seems creepy to
them, tells me that you missed the point, since the obvious answer is yes,
of course it doesn't seem right, to ANYONE. It's just basic common sense.
I think it was a "fake out" - we were supposed to think he was a peeping Tom checking out undressing women but it turns out he was just checking up on the kids' behaviour just as he would expect Santa to :) Seems pervy to our modern sensibilities but I think at the time it would have been seen as something innocent in place of the expected perviness.
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