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> It's ambiguous (since we don't know for sure how old Marion is during the events of Raiders), but "Marion was 16(ish)" is a perfectly valid reading Yeah, whi

• rickoooooo 4y ago
  You can find a transcript from George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan's original brainstorming sessions for this film online (http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconference1978.pdf http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconferenc...). In the transcript it's made clear that she would have been underage, but in the film it's only hinted at. Here's an excerpt: 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. G — 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...