Though "Zoo" is intent on allowing these men to be heard, Devor's intention was not polemical. "I'm not in there wrestling with the legal or animal cruelty issues," he said. Rather, he envisioned a film like his others: "I count on the natural world pulling my films through. I thought the marriage of this completely strange mind-set and the beauty of the natural world could be something interesting."
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To: Esther Ruth
We are beyond the slippery slope and now are at rock bottom.
To: Esther Ruth
In the end, Devor ended up agreeing with the Roman writer Terence, who said "I consider nothing human alien to me."
"It happens," the filmmaker said, "so it's part of who we are."
To: Esther Ruth
"I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it." Not exactly something to be proud of. I suppose if you desired you could make a movie that would make Saddam look good. Oh wait, the Democrats already do that.
To: Esther Ruth
Were Butch and Sundance both having sex with animals? I thought one of them had a girlfriend.
To: Esther Ruth
It's the sequel to "Brokeback Mountain"
6 posted on
01/22/2007 6:27:45 AM PST by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: Esther Ruth
The only thing I could think of after I read this article was: Why?
10 posted on
01/22/2007 6:34:50 AM PST by
edpc
(The pen is mightier than the sword......until you fight someone.)
To: Esther Ruth
[cue Nine Inch Nails-"Closer"...or even better, Nine Inch Richards' parody "Closer to Hogs"]
12 posted on
01/22/2007 6:36:57 AM PST by
RichInOC
("Lovin' ewe is easy 'cause you're beautiful...makin' love with ewe is all I want to do...")
To: Esther Ruth
...with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations.The mood and spirit of sex between a man and a stallion?
To: Esther Ruth
I thought the marriage of this completely strange mind-set and the beauty of the natural world could be something interestingWonder why he used to term 'marriage' instead of 'juxtaposition'?
14 posted on
01/22/2007 6:40:39 AM PST by
kanawa
(Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
To: Esther Ruth
"beastiality"
Years ago, when the Chicago Stockyards was on its last legs, there was one 'kid' (Frankie) in the neighborhood who would go there to screw the Sheep.
Needless to say he was treated as a pariah - taunted, mocked, and called very name in the book (pervert, deviate) when he was seen on the streets. He was also a junkie (speed freak) and died of an O.D. when he was about 16 - and nobody cared. 'Good riddance' was the usual response.
16 posted on
01/22/2007 6:43:27 AM PST by
Condor51
(The demoncRATs don't want another 'Vietnam' - they want another Dien Bien Phu.)
To: Esther Ruth
"A lot of people looked at me as if I was an exploitative person, dredging up something for profit, and that bothered me. I was certainly asked many times, often with a wrinkled brow, 'Why are you making this film?' It was something I did resent; I thought artists had the opportunity to explore anything."
Beautiful. I'm glad this guy explained that the movie is simply "art", so apparently its no big deal.
Perhaps next time he can explore pedophilia without making any moral judgments.
18 posted on
01/22/2007 6:46:11 AM PST by
Roberts
To: Esther Ruth
To: Esther Ruth
with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations
It is precisely those "situations" that I care not to visualize.
24 posted on
01/22/2007 7:16:45 AM PST by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: Esther Ruth
And where is PETA?????????
*crickets*
Sleaze is sleaze - aestheticized or not.
29 posted on
01/22/2007 8:23:02 AM PST by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
To: Esther Ruth
The working title was "Hillary and Bill: the Early Years"
30 posted on
01/22/2007 8:23:20 AM PST by
nctexan
To: Esther Ruth
SHEEPY: "Where is that Mr. Redford...I'm ready for my scene now."
31 posted on
01/22/2007 8:25:10 AM PST by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: Esther Ruth
"an elegant, eerily lyrical film"
Somehow I doubt it.
32 posted on
01/22/2007 8:28:53 AM PST by
kalee
(No burka for me....EVER!)
To: Esther Ruth
34 posted on
01/22/2007 9:50:10 AM PST by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: Esther Ruth
"Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." Incest and intergenerational affairs are also taboo and more likely to remain so than bestiality. Zoophilia is legal in many states so long as it occurs where no one can see it. Not so the other pairings.
The Sex Positive agenda seeks to end all moral judgements against ALL sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner, Santorum was correct about defining deviancy downward.
37 posted on
01/22/2007 11:12:26 AM PST by
weegee
(No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
To: Esther Ruth
It's supposedly a documentary. I don't know if that means it would show the downside or just the perspective of those involved in Seattle.
This isn't the first time sex with animals has been in a feature film. I vaguely recall there was a sheep oral sex scene in "Revenge of the Nerds" (or similar film) and, more recently, I heard a Jim Carrey character was involved in on-screen bestiality.
40 posted on
01/22/2007 11:38:38 AM PST by
newzjunkey
(Social Security & Mexico: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1762624/post)
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