Often, in discussions about old movies, someone will say, “That movie couldn’t be made today.”, and inevitably someone else will disagree.

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    1 day ago

    My 2 cents: She was 11 when the movie was shot - it’s one thing to replace a 16 year old with a 18 year old actor, even with a similar story, but there is not one 18 (or even 16) year old you could put into that role and say it’s still the same movie. The psychological impact of being confronted with literally a child’s body in this context is not comparable in my opinion.

    • A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yeah that makes perfect sense. Having not seen the movie, I don’t know the weight of that but can imagine.

      I was trying to understand and linking the Wikipedia page wasn’t really explaining it.