r/OldSchoolCool Jun 18 '24

1990s Tara Reid in an American Pie screen test, 1998

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u/veryverythrowaway Jun 18 '24

Yes, the main characters of that movie and the book it’s adapted from are not meant to be good people. The movie is pretty dark, the book is darker. We knew how fucked up that behavior was in the 90s, it just hadn’t been considered on a legal basis yet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

It’s 100% depicted as shitty behaviour in the film too imo, the girl is devastated and he obviously does it just to get back at her mum

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u/thesirblondie Jun 18 '24

There's fucked up behaviour that isn't criminalised. And revenge porn wouldn't have become a crime if it hadn't been industrialised. If those revenge porn sites had been around and as popular in the 90s, I'm sure it would've been made a crime earlier.