90s Lolitas Volume 3: Wild Things, Cruel Intentions and Britney Spears (Erotic 90’s, Part 19)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

If Adrian Lyne’s Lolita became a case study of what Hollywood and America didn’t want to acknowledge about its sexualization of young girls, as the 90s came to a close the culture was full of “acceptable” depictions of teens in heat. Two hit films from 1998 and 1999, Wild Things and Cruel Intentions, adapted classic templates of adult sexual manipulation to turn teen girls into femme fatales (probably not coincidentally, both featured actresses, Neve Campbell and Sarah Michelle Gellar, who were famous for playing high school students on TV). Also no coincidence: these films entered the culture simultaneous to the debut of 17 year-old Britney Spears, whose videos and persona centered her status as “not a girl, not yet a woman.” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.4	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
1:23.3	the secret and over forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
1:30.1	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment of our ongoing series,
2:07.8	I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this.
2:23.5	In last week's episode, we talked about Adrian Line's Lolita.
2:28.6	A film adaptation of what most would agree is history's greatest literary text about
2:35.3	an adult man's sexual obsession with an adolescent.
2:40.4	That film was re-edited to comply with a new, federal, anti-child pornography law, which
2:46.7	stipulated that it was illegal to depict people under the age of 18 in sexual situations,
2:54.2	even if they were played by adult actors.
2:57.5	Lolita was rejected by every major Hollywood distributor out of fear that its subject matter
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