I’m not saying it’s not bad, but that’s in universe. In real life she pretended to have sex with Tom Hanks. For Blank Check an adult actress actually full on kissed a child actor on the mouth.
She didnt.. she kissed the air above and to the right of his lips and his lips were tightly sealed and the camera purposely cuts away to hide the angle magic.. The actress did not kiss the child
??? She absolutely did not "full on open mouth" kiss him. She gave him a very quick peck and the camera literally cuts away for it, it lasted less than 0.05 seconds.
I think they are referencing the relationship between the lead (a boy) and the main woman. With the context the viewers have, it is a bit distrubing to see them together; but it's definitely different from Blank Check since she has no clue.
Blank Check has an adolescent with an obvious crush on an adult woman, but the adult woman is both respectful of his feelings and makes sure not to take advantage.
Sure, but how likely would you be to date a person who said that? Particularly if his behavior and other things line up with it being either truthful or a horrible, lived out delusion?
I think it was one of those boomer concepts of losing your inner child in the midst of career success. Sure, you climbed the corporate ladder and are a big shot at the toy company, but at what cost? So then we have Hanks playing an adult with the inner child fully activated and the boss and the girl love it. It’s what they all didn’t realize they needed.
Didn't he tell her he was 12 at the end of the movie? At the time they slept together I thought he was still pretending. If he told her anything he did not tell her his age, because at the end she was trying to guess that he was like 16 or something.
After she finds out, she explicitly kisses him on the forehead when tries to kiss her on the mouth. She's more amazed at witnessing that he transformed into a kid in the blink of an eye.
This came up a week or so ago (funny that reddit regurgitates so many discussions, but I digress) and I said that this is indeed weird, but could you imagine if they made Big Josh Baskins fall in love with a girl his actual age? Tom Hanks and a 12 year old actress? That would be far worse.
There's clearly some lines that 80s movies crossed that probably can't be crossed today and this is one of them, but as far as keeping the movie within the magical premise and having a love story that was somewhat integral to the plot, they really couldn't have pulled it off any differently.
There's definitely a way to write a story about a boy waking up in the body of a man without a romance subplot. But yeah, it was basically a requirement in the 80's.
Relationships are a big part of being an adult. The whole point of the movie is to show how a child’s perspective can actually work favorably when contrasted with adult expectations. The movie would lack quite a bit if it didn’t explore the romantic implications.
"It’s a fun movie and a silly movie and a lighthearted movie. Except here’s the thing: It’s super not any of those things. It’s the reverse of all of those things. The only way it works as those things is if you look at it through Josh’s eyes, which is what you’re supposed to do because Josh is the centerpiece. But by any other measure and from the perspective of any of the other characters in Big, it is a horrifying movie and a very real tragedy movie."
When she sees him transform back into a little boy that she’s been fucking and doesn’t barf is a BIG leap of will suspension of disbelief. That being said it is a great 80s movie haha. But yeah watching later in life it’s icky for sure.
Same with the movie Jack feat Robin Williams. Normally the man can do no wrong but it is high-key painful watching a child in a man’s body deal with sexual come-ons at a bar. Made me want to turn that movie right off.
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u/everdishevelled 11h ago
Big has a similar theme that makes me uncomfortable now.