steve martin perverted?
Is it me or did steve martin write then direct and star in this movie so he could get some from a girl young enough to be his daughter? That is why I will never watch this movie.
shareNo, he is playing a character in a movie. You are right if this feels like abuse to you, to skip it. Abuse, and mean people, suck, big time.
This is a *movie* talking about what adults do.
In real life, older and younger adults do become romantically involved; for a lot of different reasons. The commentary helps clarify these problems that the characters are dealing with. I see this as: adults making mistakes; people get hurt; and then they grow. It does have a happy ending.
I lived and worked in Los Angeles at this girl's age. When you work somewhere upscale like Saks, men try to treat you like you are just another product for sale. Isn't it revealing that the first contact with the older man, was over a purchase he ended up giving her? The whole transaction was a ruse. My mouth dropped open when I saw that scene, because it had the same tone as what happened to me. I had a powerful man his age ask me for directions to a restaurant he really wasn't going to, and then received 2 dozen long-stemmed red roses and instructions to meet him there for a dinner. Very masterful, very powerful, and very calculating. I managed to feel insulted, like I was being bought and sold. He and I never had that dinner. This wasn't an isolated event. In Los Angeles, you have Rays and Jeremys. The temptation is overwhelming to fall into that luxury and just float a little while. She never acted like a gold digger, and that was charming to see.
I am a little proud to say, I blew off the Rays and dated the Jeremys. Of course, now that I am older and have trouble paying the bills...well, I can appreciate what a little time spent with a Ray could offer over the Jeremy I married. Just kidding, sweetheart!
LA Story was a delight because Steve Martin hit all the right notes for that area of the planet. I consider this movie to be a much more serious bookend to life in the City of Angels.
A family friend once told us she dated a man her father's age when she was barely out of her teens. Not a healthy idea, but the fact is they remained friends down the years. She told us this story when she was in her early 30s. I suspect the answer is, many women marry a guy they love on the first go-around, with no though to his financial means, and they marry a guy who can take care of them on the second try, when they are bit older and notions of youthful romance have evaporated into real-life concerns. It is not uncommon for the one they marry to take care of them to be older, and one way or the other romance may have little or nothing to do with it. Of course, many married women of a certain age will profess to swoon over young-ish hunks like Tom Cruise or Leo DeCaprio. It doesn't hurt, of course, that guys like this not only have sex appeal but loads of money.
shareJaenne,
lol
Nicely written...what did the hubby say? :)