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Post by NatureCalleth on Apr 19, 2021 20:24:37 GMT
Got some questions that maybe you can all answer.
1. What made Chris a "bad boy", or really what makes anyone a "bad boy"?
2. What made him a still mildly, at the time, respectable "bad boy"? (I more mean to the outside world with this question)
3. What attracted people to him at the time?
4. How did he redeem himself?
5. Why are people attracted to reformed "bad boys"?
6. If someone wanted to be a "bad boy", what could they take as positive influence to repeat from Chris, and as negative influence to avoid?
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Post by utility_singer on Apr 26, 2021 10:27:15 GMT
I've got to go to work, but short answer: Much of what made him a 'bad boy' is dependent upon the time, the social class he was born into, and what was considered 'acceptable' behavior at the time.
He redeemed himself professionally by doing the work and not cutting corners. Personally, by sobering up and staying faithful to his wife.
I don't think anyone could get away with a lot of what he did in the times we're in now.
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Post by augiesannie on Apr 26, 2021 22:52:41 GMT
utility_singer covered it. He drank too much and slept around, including with married women. Like she says, that kind of behavior was more tolerated then than it is now. I can only add that there is a very familiar trope in romance fiction that "reformed rakes make the best husbands." Probably because they bring all their amorous skills, acquired elsewhere, into the marital bed. Your last question is a great one. The positive influence is that he did see the need to turn himself around.
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Post by Chris&Byng on Apr 27, 2021 14:01:50 GMT
Got some questions that maybe you can all answer.
1. What made Chris a "bad boy", or really what makes anyone a "bad boy"?
2. What made him a still mildly, at the time, respectable "bad boy"? (I more mean to the outside world with this question)
3. What attracted people to him at the time?
4. How did he redeem himself?
5. Why are people attracted to reformed "bad boys"?
6. If someone wanted to be a "bad boy", what could they take as positive influence to repeat from Chris, and as negative influence to avoid?
I think if you read his book, you will get many of these answers. I think primarily he was rebelling against his very moderate-upper-class Victorian upbringing. (There are very few of us who can claim a Prime Minister as a grandparent LOL). There was no father to scowl on his life choices, only a mother who loved him with all her soul and wanted him to be happy. Living in Montreal was also very important to his status as bad boy. It was probably the most cosmopolitan city in North America in the 1940s and he moved about in it like an expert from a rather young age. The Barrymore influence on his life was also important, I think. |
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Post by Chris&Byng on May 6, 2021 23:45:02 GMT
Got some questions that maybe you can all answer.
1. What made Chris a "bad boy", or really what makes anyone a "bad boy"?
2. What made him a still mildly, at the time, respectable "bad boy"? (I more mean to the outside world with this question)
3. What attracted people to him at the time?
4. How did he redeem himself?
5. Why are people attracted to reformed "bad boys"?
6. If someone wanted to be a "bad boy", what could they take as positive influence to repeat from Chris, and as negative influence to avoid?
I have been slowly making my way through this series with R.H. Thomson and yesterday I came across this segment...I think it helps explain the evolution of the 'bad boy' persona very nicely (& there's another 43 segments if you can't get enough of CP and want to watch them all! I still have 5 to go  ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_8wKTS7e8 |
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Post by augiesannie on May 9, 2021 23:26:28 GMT
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