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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles?  The Donger?[/quote]

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?  [/quote]

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake![/quote]

That is, quite literally, one of the things that is troubling about it.  We love Jake, yet he is TERRIBLE and lets his gf get date raped!  Gross.[/quote]

I never took it that anything actually happened between Anthony M-H’s character and the girlfriend…it’s not like they were undressed or anything.  What made the scene funny was that nothing probably did happen, but they sort of decided to believe it did and were happy about it (despite being a dorky freshman and beautiful senior).  Also, of course in real life Jake should not have sent his drunk girlfriend off with AMH (though I believe he just asked him to drive her home and not to ‘rape her’); but even as a teen in the 80s I knew it was wrong and silly, which again, is partially what made it funny.  I mean, a grandmother feeling up a grandchild is also wrong and ridiculous, and that is why it is funny.[/quote]

Watch the scene again.  It’s clear that he raped her.  Of course, 80’s being the 80’s, she’s not feeling at all bothered and basically assures him that she probably liked it.[/quote]

Just watched it on youtube.  They just sit in the car. Nothing happens[/quote]

I think the movie is fairly ambiguous about both Jake’s intentions for Ted and what happened between Ted and Jake’s girlfriend.  I mean, sure you could interpret it in the worst possible way and, who knows, maybe that’s what the director intended.  But I think a reasonable person could fairly argue that Jake just wanted Ted to take his girlfriend back home because he didn’t want her around any more and that nothing actually happened in the car.[/quote]

You need to rewatch he clearly gave her over to have sex.[/quote]

I have rewatched it.  I honestly don’t think so.  I think Jake was tired of her and wanted Ted to take her home and to make sure she got home and not do something stupid like leave her in a parking lot somewhere.  [b]He never tells Ted to “have fun” with her or anything.[/b][/quote]

Correction: Jake does say “have fun” as they are about to leave in the car together, but he doesn’t say “have fun with her”.

[b]My interpretation as a kid watching this movie, and I think it holds up, is that Jake let Ted drive his girlfriend home because it would improve his reputation to be seen with the most popular girl in school.  That’s it.  And Ted did take her to his friend’s house to get a picture of them together.  I don’t think it makes sense that Jake would talk about valuing real love, and then basically giving his girlfriend over for sex in the next breath.  That’s the way I see it, but everyone is entitled to their own interpretation [/b]obviously.[/quote]

Bruh. This movie is one of my faves, but it’s obvious he’s handing her over so that Farmer Ted can have sex with her.  I always thought Jake was quite the assails for that, but I still love the movie. [/quote]

I disagree. I think Jake was telling Farmer Ted to have fun being seen with the most popular girl in school and to have fun driving Jake’s expensive car. Ted was an unpopular nerdy freshman who couldn’t drive yet.[/quote]

They had sex so yes it was rape.[/quote]

Do we know that they actually had sex?  I remember the movie was pretty ambiguous about it.[/quote]

Yes they say it the next morning in the car.[/quote]

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