Age Gap
A Look into the Risqué Romance of On Green. ⚠️Heavy Spoilers⚠️
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When one thinks car-action, they probably think along the lines of The Fast and the Furious. Some might even recall a classic such as Bullitt, Vanishing Point, or Gone in 60 Seconds. What people probably don’t think is age gap lovin’. That’s where On Green steps in and shines a different light, but let’s break it down and explore this dynamic together.
The Characters
Lydia Bellhorn (Carver) - Lydia is the story’s lead female character at 50 years old, and she’s the “trophy” wife of Bob Bellhorn, the story’s main antagonist. She’s rich, possesses stunning, youthful beauty for her age, and she’s well traveled and cultured.
Dustin Cameron - Dusty is our story’s lead character and he’s 30 years old when we meet him. He’s pretty average, but a hard worker and keeps to himself.
The Catalyst
When these two meet, their relationship starts off as a slow burn. Bob outright offers Lydia as a sexual token of appreciation to Dusty for saving his life. However, Dustin refuses the offer out of pure respect for their marriage despite the couple operating in an open relationship due to some past issues. It’s the fact that Dusty sees her as a human that kick starts her interest in him. Eventually, mutual feelings develop between Dusty and Lydia as they constantly find themselves looking out for each other.
Inspirations Behind The Dynamic
I was heavily inspired to write a dynamic like this from a few sources. Growing up, I was the runt in a family of adopted kids. Everyone was much older than me. My siblings had all their friends around, so naturally I was just a part of older groups.
The major key inspiration for Lydia and Dusty comes from a painting of all things. That painting is Bad Boy (1981) by an artist named Eric Fischl. I attended the Savannah College of Art and Design and naturally we had to take art history courses. It was there I discovered Eric Fischl’s work. This intriguing painting only gets more questionable the longer you look at it. The work seems to explore dysfunctional suburban life, voyeurism, and sexual curiosity. The work just stuck with me all these years, and its themes were taken and broken down in the story.
Bob and Lydia have a dysfunctional marriage, there is a great amount of curiosity that builds between Lydia and Dustin, and there’s even a little invited voyeurism to keep things spicy.
The other key inspiration behind the dynamic is that I discovered an interesting statistic that the most searched for porn category is that of the MILF/Stepmom/Cougar genres. While I am not a partaker of adult material, but I found this statistic to be very peculiar, and I decided to say something about it.
Part of the dynamic between Dustin and Lydia is that it comes off as a porn fantasy at first, until we break through that and we discover that it’s anything but. It was important to me that these two were humanized through their journey together. I wanted to take an almost tabloid scenario and just be as sincere as possible with it so that people are reminded of what love actually is through the story. After all, there are real life age gap couples out there who do make it work. Some of them are even famous.
On Green doesn’t objectify, it honors. It shows how two people choose each other, and walk with each other through thick and thin.
Plus, it really revs!