Descendants Spanking

In the movie, The Descendants, there is a scene in which the character played by Shailene Woodley is berating her mother, who is in a coma. George Clooney, who plays Shailene's father, gives her a swat across the bottom, while admonishing her not to talk to her mother like that. She indigently responds, "Did you just spank me?"

I saw that, too. The way she said it made me laugh. Good catch, Wheatwine.

It occurs to me that if The descendants were a story on LSF, instead of being a major motion picture, George Clooney's character would have waited until they got home, pulled down the pants of the character played by Shailene Woodley, turned her over his knee, and given her 20-30 swats across her bare bottom. Then he would have said something like, Is case there's any doubt in your mind, I just spanked you again. I'm going out to buy a paddle, and both you and your sister are going to get spanked for any misbehavior from now on."
(In the course of the movie, both girls earned more than one spanking. Shailene's character, earned more than her younger sister, IMHO.)

I don't know anything about the film but occasionally actors improvise scenes and dialogue following their understanding of the roles they are playing and how they are interacting. So maybe the slap was an on the spur of the moment thing, which might explain the lady's reply.

Of course we have no way of knowing what the two are getting up to in private...