Worse x a million. .onion sites from hell.
every teenager focus movie for the last 50 years is kiddie porn basically at a fundamental level.
No mention of Lolita. Sue Lyon was 14 when she played the role.
Taxi Driver
Ah, those morally superior Europeans
There was a movie back in the early 80s called “Private Lessons”. Ostensibly a comedy about a French maid/con artist seducing a teenage boy. Features a simulated sex scene with an underage kid and Rod Stewart crooning on the soundtrack in the background. How did THAT fly back then?
American Beauty featured a sexually suggestive scene involving a girl who was clearly under age. Had i not been watching the film as a guest of family members, I would have walked out after the first two minutes. I was astonished that such a depraved and decadent film won Best Picture for 1999, but long ago, I came to realize that this is par for the course in today’s Hollywood.
And then there was Salo’ . I understand the producer was murdered after releasing it.
“Pretty baby” and “Blue Lagoon” where undoubtedly prurient and should not have been made.
The issue isn’t about a theme revolving around child abuse, it is about sexualising the child actors in the film. “Pretty Baby” featured an underaged Brooke Shields fully nude in many scenes. That was totally unneccessary and prurient as well as exploitative and wrong. I’m not even sure how it got made and everyone involved didn’t get arrested to be honest.
As for ‘cuties’ for a film that ostensibly is a critique on the hypersexualisation, it does a lot of hypersexualisation of the child actors involved in making it. Its a bit like making a film criticising racism and then paying all the actors involved different rates according to their race.
The 70s was far worse. "Pretty Baby", "Taxi Driver", the multitude of European films that are even more explicit than the two I mentioned. British photographer David Hamilton sold coffee table books of his photos of naked 13-year olds. Jimmy Page and David Bowie were sharing the same 14-year old girlfriend, parading her around the clubs shamelessly. Roman Polanski pleading to essentially a slap on the wrist for raping a child. In many European countries, child porn wasn't even illegal. The internationally-observed 18-year age minimum to make porn is largely a product of the internet. Prior to that, girls far younger than 18 were legally working in the porn business, particularly in Scandinavia which then had infamous reputation as an producer and exporter of child pornography.
Blame It on Rio, immediately comes to mind.
With the deserved outrage over Cuties I do have to ask, how are the routines from “Dance Mom” that much different?
While in college 3 buddies and myself took a class about the best of early classical movies, where the M movie was one of the movies in the syllabus. We were 2 stem and 2 business majors and didn’t really want to stretch our brains too much for the humanities elective that had to be checked off. So, it was me and the three buddies, the football and basketball teams. Perfect class for a gimme A grade. We all needed a second humanity class so the next semester took another course by the same prof that was a history of rock music, 1920s-50s evolution. Same deal, the 4 buddies from the dorm, football and basketball teams and gimme A.
Two left off the list, “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane” featuring a nude 12 or 13 Jodie Foster leaving no doubt she’s bonking her underage boyfriend, and “Gigi,” about an adult man grooming a teenage girl to be his mistress. No explicit sex involved but the idea should have been repugnant to every feminist in the world.