"Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff"

Discussion in 'In the Media' started by Howiedoit, Jul 12, 2011.

  1. Howiedoit

    Howiedoit Active Member

    Other titles: "The Shaming", "Sin" and "Secret Yearnings".

    http://n61.stagevu.com/v/2faf028b6a8901419b0f150b55df110b/199394.avi

    This movie was made in 1979, about a white female school teacher in the 1950s who first sexual experience was a rape of a black janitor who controls her throughout the movie.

    Wikipedia description:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Luck,_Miss_Wyckoff

    "Set in Freedom, a fictional small Kansas town, in 1956, the film focuses on Evelyn Wyckoff, a lonely and depressed 35-year-old high school Latin teacher who no longer finds any satisfaction in her work. She is undergoing therapy with Wichita psychiatrist Dr. Steiner but making little progress. One day she is accosted by Rafe Collins, an African American scholarship student who cleans classrooms at the end of the school day. When the young man makes lewd suggestions and begins to unzip his pants, Evelyn flees in a panic but decides to tell no one what transpired, hoping it was an isolated incident.
    The following day, Rafe approaches Evelyn again and rapes her on her desk. Ashamed and fearful of the public disgrace she will suffer if she reports being violated by a black man, she chooses to remain silent. Rafe forces himself upon her on a daily basis, and eventually Evelyn, craving attention and mistaking their sadomasochistic relationship for true love, begins to look forward to their trysts."

    Being 1979, the critics panned it as racist. My thoughts it's was way ahead of it's time.

    Thoughts???
     
  2. andreboba

    andreboba Well-Known Member

    Dude was raping his teacher, like EVERYDAY.

    If this is a sexual fantasy of yours, go for it.....privately inside your head.

    Or roleplay.

    But um, I don't know if this is based on a true story, however I can easily imagine how someone would view this scenario as racist.

    I don't see the narrative arch or the emotional payoff/redemptive message of such a story.

    What's the moral? If you're a White female being raped at work by the Black janitor, you should take it like a champ until you don't resent the physical attacks!??:smt104

    It only works if the dude seduced her and they were having a mutually agreed upon sexual tryst.

    Coercion through force is NEVER sexy IMO, unless you're like, a rapist.:|
     
  3. TERRASTAR18

    TERRASTAR18 Well-Known Member

    save your energy,my friend, the op sounds like a troll.
     
  4. Howiedoit

    Howiedoit Active Member

    Uh this is NOT a fantasy of mine don't read too much into this.

    What the guy did to the woman was evil and since this was set in the 50s I assume they had a manhunt for him. You can't have a black man running around raping white women.
     
  5. MissWacy

    MissWacy New Member

    i saw this clip the other day
     
  6. AlmostThere

    AlmostThere Active Member


    I don't think anything happened to the Black man. He was a janitor/student/football player. When they finally got caught, he finished fucking her into front of two White guys who suspected that they were fucking and talked a whole lot of shit about it, but he just put his clothes on and walked right by them and they didn't do anything.

    Even the principal said that after he scores his next touchdown that what he did would be forgotten, and that the biggest penalty would fall on her. She lost her job and her "place" in White society. In a way the movie was showing the price of sexism costing more than the price of racism, though the sexism was racially motivated.
     
  7. ryan123

    ryan123 New Member

    does the link work?
     

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