Anybody remember the scene from Home Alone where Kevin says "Buzz, your girlfriend, woof!"?

[tornado34jh]

I apparently found out that the person in the picture was not a girl at all. It turns out it was the art director's son dressed up as one (i.e. via a wig). While I thought it was interesting for the longest time I actually thought it was a girl, but it turns out I was wrong.

[RockRaven]

1. I've heard that anecdote before, and it seemed like a sort of stepping stone

or half-measure of "wokeness" or empathy or whatever, where the film was playing a "hurr urr ugly girl is ugly, haha" moment but at the same time the person in charge of creating/acquiring the relevant picture apparently said to themselves "how can I avoid subjecting some real adolescent girl to the ridicule of being the 'ugly girl' in this film?"

[tornado34jh]

2. Yeah, but I just can imagine how some people would flip out about it

But then again, a lot of people would consider this "woke", but how many 90s movies do you think they would consider that? Figure this movie was released about 9 months before I was born, and I don't really consider myself a movie person.

[RockRaven]

3. There are other much less charitable ways to interpret it also, and I have no idea

what the truth of the motivations of the prop/art person was. I could also believe easily that they just thought it was funny in an immature/gross way, or thought their kid and his friends would think it was cool/funny, etc.

I'm curious if there is any contemporaneous record of why they did it that way, as opposed to a more recent explanation (the one I gave in my first response might be more self-serving in appearance if it only arose recently -- which is when I first heard it, though it was presented as an old explanation).

[tornado34jh]

4. Who knows?

I mean, we never see the actual person outside of that, and I think they probably wouldn't have done so if they had known that was going to be one of the funniest moments. Figure things were different in 1990 compared to today.

[Conjuay]

5. wether it was deliberate or not,

I think it was a good idea.
If they used an actual person, especially a kid, she would have people walking up to her and ‘woofing’ at her all the time.

[ariadne0614]

6. Would this thread have even been possible back in the day?

My inner Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm wants to believe this discussion is a sign of cultural evolution. There’s still a glimmer of hope that our species is waking up in spite of ourselves.