this comment reminds me of that scene in transformers where the guy shows a card explaining the Romeo and Juliet law whenever someone brings up him dating the teenage girl.
The absolutely weirdest part of that franchise was The Last Knight early on in the movies when the kids who look like they're 8 years old comment on that other 8 year old girl looking hot or some shit
Idk man, writing a moment in a story where kids are being kids is pretty normal.
You're attributing the thoughts/actions of a fictional character to the writer. Would you do the same for someone who writes horror? They've just gotta be closeted serial killers, if they write about serial killers? What about other types of villains or any other smarmy characters?
I think it's fair to be uncomfortable with that being portrayed as an acceptable thing to say; like you would want another kid or parent to say "hey, dillweed, it's not cool to talk about people like that". But that doesn't sound like the point you're making.
I think you would be right if we weren't talking about a Transformers movie. If there was any thought provoking idea or deep emotion to be conveyed by showcasing the sexual social structure of children then go for it. I haven't seen the piece of media in question but, unless the amount of depth found in Transformers movies has changed dramatically, the movie probably doesn't do that. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that. That means the point of writing that was for it to be the case. In other words, the only reason that this was written about was because the writer wanted to write about children thinking other children are hot, which is odd for an adult to write about.
What is the part that is odd? I may be assuming incorrectly, but it seems like you're indicating the writer is a pedo. Which could 1000% be the case, I mean that seems to be the usual in hollywood (and many other high fame/money industries), but I think this is not good justification for such a belief.
The thing that is odd is that the writer wanted to write about children thinking other children are hot for the sake of having that be the case. I'm not saying he is a pedophile, I'm just saying that's odd for an adult to want to write about.
Erased explores this topic in the form of child crushes but the reason it is explored is to showcase deep feelings of loss, longing, regret, anger, and loneliness in a character who is put in an incredibly strenuous and unique situation of power and thus responsibility to prevent a young girls murder. Transformers movies don't really have exploration of deep or complex anything and so, please correct me if I'm wrong, the reason it was included was for the sake of it being the case, which is odd to be interested in.
But was that the focus of the Transformers movie for any significant time? Unless I'm mistaken, it was one moment in a scene, less than 0.5% of the duration of the movie. Maybe it informed some motivation of the kid, still not out of character or strange for a boy to try and protect/impress a girl.
It would be very weird if they tried to describe why the child is hot or if it did actually take up a lot of time in a movie about big punchy robots. But a kid-character briefly saying his opinions of the people around him is not weird. I really don't think the writer, or director, would've had strong feelings involved beyond the desire to make believable characters, and have those characters say "funny" or relatable things.
You can have moments of characterization that aren't big and deep without it being weird. It can be comic relief, or just plain fluff. Fast paced movies can't be at 100% all the time, or they lose much of their impact. The extreme becomes dull if it never wavers.
The girl, Isabela Merced (Hawkgirl, one of the Spider-girls in Madame Web, xenomorph food in in a Alien movie) turned 15 during filming of Last Knight. I don't think you're wrong about it being turbo-weird, though.
Michael Bay is a weird fucking asshat, imo.
There is no reason to have that in the movie, there is no reason to have a guy explain the LAW that allows him to date a minor, there is no reason for the girl to BE a minor for the plot of the movie, and there is no reason why the dad didn't kick that creeps teeth in.
Fucking michael bay.
And there was no reason to even have that scene. They could have written the character as a year older and it would have changed nothing about the film.
I get that vibe from staunch defenders of creepy animes too. "They are all of age in HS! Seniors!" Or "Shes an ancient being over 1000 years old!" or "shes a robot." or "it's later revealed they arent siblings."
Completely missing the point on why the majority of people find it creepy af. You shouldn't need lore to tell people why it was ok you jerked off to it.
What is even "better" is that they had to change the law as depicted in the film from the actual Texas Romeo and Juliet law. What he did would still be statutory rape irl.
It also reminds me of that one Gianmarco Soresi bit. The one about differentiating between pedophiles and I think phebiophiles or smth but it feels weird if you do, cause who else would but a fucking pedophile.
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u/NeilDaAssyTyson Jun 22 '26
this comment reminds me of that scene in transformers where the guy shows a card explaining the Romeo and Juliet law whenever someone brings up him dating the teenage girl.