Uh...I meant he was raping childhoods FIGURATIVELY....

Making its rounds on the web today is 125-page transcript of the original story meeting between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan to develop what would become the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. A handful of pages of this showed up in a Raiders book that was published, but now the whole thing has shown up on the internet, and it appears to be leak from inside Lucas Arts.

Whoever leaked it has the gratitude would-be screenwriters and film nerds alike, because its a rare and fascinating look at the birth of one of the most beloved films of all time. I can't wait to rifle through this whole thing and experience the process of giants in the field of cinema knocking out characters and story. This is a huge piece of film history, and a hell of a find.

In the midst of it, however, is a disturbing moment of genuine WTF?

Remember the scene in Raiders, at the bar, when we're first meeting Indy's former love, Marion Ravenwood? Post-slap, she lays into him about what he did to her. The dialogue goes like this:

INDY: I never meant to hurt you.
MARION: I was a child! I was in love.
INDY: You knew what you were doing.
MARION: It was wrong. You knew it.
INDY: Look, I did what I did. I don't expect you to be happy about it. But maybe we can do each other some good.

Apparently, she meant that first part LITERALLY. Let's cut to the transcript of the story conference, and take a look at how old Lucas thought Marion should be during their initial "affair":

(Note that the "G" is for George, the "S" is for Steven and the "L" is for Lawrence).

G — I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.

L — And he was forty-two.

G — He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.

S — She had better be older than twenty-two.

G — He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.

S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.

G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...

S — She has pictures of him.

So in George's mind, a grown man having a sexual relationship with a girl who's eleven or twelve (or as uninterestingly old as fifteen) really isn't that big of a deal. Hmmm. Apparently Lucas' thoughts on pedophilia are kind of the same as they are on slavery - it's not really that big of a deal as long as everyone involved is okay with it. Yipee!!

Just a note, Mr. Lucas - when a grown man is having a relationship with a pre-teen girl, it's not called an "affair". It's called "rape". I would think after the past few films you've done, you'd have a much better understanding of that word...