'For an idea of how manhood & sexuality have changed in the US over the past 50 years, it’s insightful to examine two popular films. In both 1977’s Saturday Night Fever & just-released No Hard Feelings, the male protagonist is 19 years old.' -markgjudge
, the men encounter older women who are teachers to them and who become love interests. Yet while Stephanie, the female in, offers maturity, wisdom, and an intimacy that comes after the man has done the hard work to appreciate herfully, inMaddie, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is vulgar, promiscuous, and infantile. In 2023, the cure for a man’s ills is not, as in, learning the difficult ropes of true romance. It’s in prostitution and pornography.
Stephanie and Tony partner together for a dance contest, both learning new moves from each other and pushing the other’s creative boundaries. Stephanie is not interested in Tony romantically, but this changes when all their hard work and practice pass off on the dance floor. In what I consider to be one of the greatest romantic sequences in the history of film, Tony and Stephanie dance perfectly together, climaxing in a dip.
By channeling his passion, not the dance, and submitting himself to the knowledge and wisdom of Stephanie, Tony has become a man. In comparison, Percy inis so dorky and helpless that he can barely function. Both he and Tony are 19, yet they are almost like two different species. Percy is so impotent in all areas of life that his parents hire Maddie , a sexy older woman, to have sex with him.
When Percy does finally have a sexual encounter with Maddie — well sort of — it has none of the spiritual power and grace of the dance scene in. It’s crude, off-screen, and over quickly. Percy can barely hold a joystick, much less dominate a dance floor. From Tony and Stephanie in the 70s to Percy and Maddie in 2023, it’s been a long and painful devolution.
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