Fast Times at Ridgemont High writer Cameron Crowe says the movie's abortion storyline would be 'outrageously controversial' in 2019
that there’s no way that scene could exist as is if it were shot in 2019, that depicting an abortion on screen would be “outrageously controversial, and it would be protested, and there would be a mess over it.” Cameron credits director Amy Heckerling for the complete normalcy of its tone:
“She read my book, she read the script, and we asked her about the abortion scene, and she said, ‘You know what? This is life. I want to shoot this like life, just like life.’ Which is everything you’d want in a director – and adirector, at a time when no women directors were getting jobs in Hollywood,” says Crowe. “She just quietly did it, and in an almost European way, she put this young girl’s life onscreen in a way for you to judge: This is just how life is.
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