There’s all sorts of talk this week about good girls gone bad as the R-rated Spring Breakers(which features former Disney starlets Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens) hits mall theaters this Friday. (Look for our review that evening.) But I’m actually much more interested in good girls gone good. And something the young Emma Watson said/did recently fits the category like a muggle’s glove.
Here’s the way we reported it in our weekly Culture Clips yesterday:
After gossip sites announced that Harry Potter star Emma Watson had been confirmed to star in the big-screen adaptation of the S&M novel Fifty Shades of Grey last week, Watson took to Twitter to dispel the rumor with four tweets. “Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life,” she asked. Later, she tweeted, “Good. Well that’s sorted then.”
See what she did there? She got right to the point and blasted away any subtlety or open-endedness or maybe-maybe-not equivocation about where she stood on the subject. And she used her own character as a reference point to do it. You know me, she’s saying. You know I would never do that kind of thing.
This is exactly the kind of stand we all want our kids to take when it comes to, say, marijuana getting handed around after school or a drinking party being planned for the weekend or a boyfriend pushing for something more.
Too bad I can’t bring this up as a positive life lesson with my tween daughter without having to get into the hows and wherefores of what S&M is.
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