Was the 1980 film 'Blue Lagoon" child pornography?

[B Calm]

Brooke Shields was only 14 years old in 1980. They said they used body doubles during the filming, but still the message to pedophiles was a big turn on.

Could the movie be made today?

[Katashi_itto]

1. More importantly, When will "Guardians of The Galaxy" 2 be out?

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Lego Movie II, Also.

It is telling, is it not, that far and away the best 2 flicks of the year were "kids movies".

[Katashi_itto]

24. Agree!

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I've never seen it

But didn't they do a remake a few years ago?

[Electric Monk]

6. There was a 1949 version as well

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041190/ 1949

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080453/ 1980

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2287663/ 2012

[PCIntern]

10. I saw that when I was a little kid on TV

and was upset that you didn't know if the mother survived. I think the father was alive...but she was not moving in the boat at the end. Gave me nightmares...

[NuclearDem]

3. Minor nitpick.

Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent children.

[B Calm]

5. There were nude prepubescent children in it too.

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[Arcadiasix]

4. Yes

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. .....

[jakeXT]

8. Her picture in the bathtub when she was 10 caused more problems

A Richard Prince exhibition has reopened at the Tate Modern museum in London without a photograph of Brooke Shields that drew the attention of the police, Bloomberg News reported. The Tate Modern was to show Mr. Prince’s exhibition “Spiritual America” as part of its program Pop Life: Art in a Material World but closed it from view after Scotland Yard warned that a photograph it included, taken of Ms. Shields in the nude when she was 10 years old, could violate obscenity laws. The picture, which was included in “Spiritual America” when it was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in 2007, was taken by Mr. Prince from another photograph made by Gary Gross in 1976 and authorized by Ms. Shields’s mother. In a statement, the Tate Modern said the photograph had been replaced with another of Ms. Shields as an adult, dressed in a bikini and leaning against a motorbike. The statement added that the change was made “in consultation with the artist.”

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/richard-prince-exhibition-re-opens-after-brooke-shields-photo-is-replaced/?_r=0

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Brooke Shields was only 12

when she starred in Pretty Baby, which is an even more egregious example of child pornography.

[dawg]

11. Things like that are seriously creepy.

I'm glad that it seems like they are less acceptable today than they were back then.

[Mosby]

12. pretty baby was worse.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Yep.

[onehandle]

13. No it wasn't child pornography and no, that version could not be made today. nt

[hifiguy]

14. Highly doubtful.

[reddread]

16. like AOL, that is the market her mother and those film makers were servicing

It was as if Hollywood was wearing their underwear on the outside of their clothes.
and they did a remake, did they not?

[RoverSuswade]

17. I've often wondered about "The Summer of 42" (1971).

I doubt it could be made today. I bought the DVD re-release a few years ago and noticed the very explicit copulation scene between the 14-yr-old boy and the 39-yr old woman was taken out.

[MrMickeysMom]

18. Forget THAT… What about "Pretty Baby"?

I remember a Brooke Shields scene at a younger age showing the result of what her body felt like after her first John.

I'm just saying…

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Never saw it.

It's vaguely creepy enough when Tom Hanks has sex with Elizabeth Perkins in "Big", because the audience knows he's actually 12 in there.

My wife and I were just watching that again on HBO Go, and we were both like, "man, they could never make that today"

[spanone]

21. could blazing saddles be made today? the progression has reversed. it's a frickin' crazy ass world...

the backlash from the 60's is evil.

[hexola]

22. Could KISS/Gene Simmons publish "Christine Sixteen"

A similar thought I've had...

[Rex]

23. Yes and Yes.

When has that ever stopped snuff films and pornos from making a buck or two?