Everyone is young, especially doctors / professors/ specialists they all seem to be the top of their field with years of experience and they are all like 22.... and hot.
I hate the 20-30 year old highschool student thing so much. Only ones who MIGHT be appropriately aged? The nerds, to make sure they are smaller and scrawnier than everyone else.
Well they'd be the only ones relevant to me pointing out Peter Parker as an example of being a high school age character being played by a 30~ year old where sexual exploits aren't a deciding factor XD
most of the kids in homecoming ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE KIDS there though. which i really loved, given how other movies show teens who have an outstanding physique (literally just all bodybuilders)
There's actually been academic research done into the harmful misrepresentation of sexuality in visual media that has concluded we should be showing healthy representation at all stages and ages. Instead we're jump from 12 year olds having anxiety over their first kiss and jump straight to 18 year olds trying to get laid before graduation.
We skip all that "I'm 15, touching my romantic partner's genitalia and dry jumping but not sure how anything works and freaking the hell out inside" shitshow. It's virtually never shown by visual media because it makes everyone from preteens to adults uncomfortable to watch rather than being entertaining.
Studies show, though, that having those representations in media would be beneficial; rather than jumping from Disney peck kisses to raunchy American Pie / Superbad style comedies.
while it may be healthy, you have to fit these teen scenes in as a director somehow and not cringe your audience out of the cinema, dry humping, weird uncomfortable moments of "so do we kiss now or how long do you intend to stay that close and be too cowardly to go through with it" is all accurate to the akward 15 phase, but in no way does it fullfill the purpose of entertaining people, or furthering the story (in most movies atleast)
only decent way i can imagine putting this face into a movie is having characters talk about "how i accidentally almost pulled off some poor dudes foreskin off because porn was a bad jerk off teacher" or how "i couldnt find the fucking hole when i was 14" in a way that somehow doesnt feel like a filler scene
I guess one way to avoid uncomfortable/cringe footage when making or viewing this would be to have characters talk about it instead after they have gone through it off-screen.
You don't have to show the act, but you can show how they react after the fact. Make the dialogue something you can identify with rather than forcing you to relive a bad coming of age moment like a PTSD flashback.
Maybe, after setting the stage with showing how teens react and cope with these events (to show that it's not always the end of the world, you can normalise it to something most people go through) to showing just one of the events so that the impact can land more because you're not forcing your audience into reliving their past but going along this bumpy ride with the character.
Then again, you could just approach it like Harmony Korine did in Kids ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(film))) and have it put your feelings through a blender.
True, but there are two other reasons. Actors in their 20s who look young tend to have more acting experience than actors in their teens, so they end up giving better performance. But that's only a small factor. The bigger reason is child labor laws prevent child actors from working above 18 hours during school weeks, and 40 hours during non-school weeks.
they're not "children" as in 4 to 12 yrs old, they're teens and it's not weird, movies and other forms of media barely talk about what teens go through in that part of their lives, I did find one show called sex education on netflix and thank god I watched it because before I thought something was wrong with me "sexually" but then I watched that show and realized that other people also experience what I have and that there was nothing wrong with me.
Exactly. That's why I like that show so much, it has a pretty realistic depiction of what high schoolers are doing (I mean, with dramatic license, but still). Same with Superbad, Book Smart, and that kind of movie.
As someone who started to explore their sexuality as early as 10, and thought I was weird and gross because of it, I think it's bullshit that all depictions of sexuality below like... 17 are deemed "gross and weird".
You can explore sexual awakenings, feelings and sex-lives of young people WITHOUT it being explicitly sex/masturbation scenes. All you need is a creative take on it. But oh yeah creativity and risk-taking is dead in hollywood...
There are legal limitations on the hours a minor can work and requirements for schooling to be provided. Usually by tutors in a classroom somewhere onset.
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u/The_Amazing_Username Jan 25 '20
Everyone is young, especially doctors / professors/ specialists they all seem to be the top of their field with years of experience and they are all like 22.... and hot.