Raiders Of The Lost Ark’s Karen Allen doesn’t think Indiana Jones is a pedophile

There’s a big market on the internet these days for reappraisals of the pop culture canon, which is how we get sudden waves of nostalgia for stuff like Master And Commander and also years-too-late backlashes against stuff like, oh, Master And Commander. It’s also how we get new takes on old movies, reinterpreting themes or examining character dynamics from a more modern, socially conscious perspective, like the idea that Indiana Jones’ relationship with Marion Ravenwood in Raiders Of The Lost Ark is… kinda creepy. When he shows up at her bar early in the movie, the two briefly recap how they know each other, with Marion saying, “I was a child. I was in love.” and Indy responding, “You knew what you were doing,” which some people have chosen to interpret as “Indiana Jones was in a relationship with a kid.” (Ignoring the fact that “I was a kid” is a pretty common way to refer to a pretty wide window of younger days.)

Uproxx recently spoke with Karen Allen, who played Marion in that one movie and not any others that we can think of right now, and brought up the potential creepiness of that scene. Allen agrees that “you could say that” there are some “sinister undertones” to the conversation (as Uproxx puts it), but she doesn’t think it means that Indiana Jones is literally a pedophile. She says her take on the scene was that Marion was 16 when they met and Indy was maybe 26, and “they could have kissed a few times,” but her interpretation was that “it was quite innocent.” She thinks they cared for each other, but he decided it was a “dangerous situation” and broke it off.

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The Gawker Effect is to make sure that nothing enjoyable can be enjoyed and everything miserable is praised. This article your typical result from the Effect: a joyless, ungenerous, Twitterish, and historically ignorant hot take on an old movie beloved by just about everyone except the anhedonic Millenial and his horde of dry-cunt spinsters.

 

But I still feel like we should celebrate and promote dumb voices. If the stupid cannot speak up, how can they ever be spotted, captured, sterilized and tagged?

 

France is sending a second Statue of Liberty to the US

New Yorkers have a surprise gift to look forward to for this Independence Day: a second Statue of Liberty sent by France. This new bronze statue, nicknamed the “little sister,” is one-sixteenth the size of the world-famous one that stands on Liberty Island. On Monday, during a special ceremony, the smaller sibling was lifted and loaded into a special container at the National Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) in central Paris, where it has been installed since 2011 in the museum’s garden. It will be erected on Ellis Island, just across the water from the original, from July 1 to July 5.

The statue, over 450 kilograms (992 pounds) in weight and just shy of 10 feet tall, was first made in 2009. It is an exact replica of the original 1878 plaster model preserved by CNAM.

“The statue symbolizes freedom and the light around all the world,” said Olivier Faron, general administrator of the CNAM. “We want to send a very simple message: Our friendship with the United States is very important, particularly at this moment. We have to conserve and defend our friendship.”

Not cool, CNN. You never tell the public a woman’s weight. Or her age. Une femme doit avoir son mystère.

 

Libertarian Party New Hampshire just keeps the spicy takes coming. Love it.

 

Principal resigns after photo shows Colorado high schoolers re-enact murder of George Floyd

A Colorado high school principal has resigned after a photo surfaced on social media showing three students re-enacting the murder of George Floyd.

In a letter to parents that noted “significant challenges” during the school year, St. Vrain Valley Schools Superintendent Don Haddad announced Monday that Mead High School Principal Rachael Ayers had stepped down after 12 years at the school as a teacher, assistant principal and principal.

It’s unclear if her resignation is connected with the incident. Ayers did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

An image posted on Snapchat last month showed a person, in blackface, on the ground with one person holding his arms and another person with a knee on his neck.

 

Protesters disrupt Bay Area congressional town hall, claim medical freedom and privacy rights

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – It was a raucous 90 minutes in Marin County when a congressional town hall in the Bay Area Tuesday night was stormed and disrupted by anti-vaccine and pro-Donald Trump protesters. Rep. Jared Huffman struggled to carry on his first in-person town hall in a year amid the disruptions.

Congressional town halls are generally tame, even dry with discussion over policy, but that was before COVID and the polarizing 2020 presidential election.

“Medical freedom now!” was the chant at the San Rafael Community Center. Huffman had to shout into the microphone to be heard.

“We have always had capacity rules for gatherings. We’ve always had common sense limits on gatherings and I’m sorry that some of it rubs you the wrong way. But it is not a civil right. It is not apartheid. It is not the Holocaust,” Huffman tried to reason with the crowd among the shouts.

About 100 people RSVP’d to the town hall. His audience ended up in face to face confrontations with protesters.

“I apologize to everyone who came here to try to have a civil, respectful conversation,” said Huffman as a woman with a sign that read, ‘All the ferrets died. No passports no way’ sat on the stage in front of him.


ALL THE FERRETS DIED