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To: discostu

Not all bad things make money. Heck, BMX-XXX if anything LOST money, and that WAS a bad thing, due to essentially being a smut game.

As far as there being plenty of point due to it being the story, yeah, and constant sexual immorality and perversion, even pain and suffering was also the story of 120 Nights of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, yet you’d be out of your mind to even use that as literature for even your teenaged offspring, let alone the age group fairy tales appeal to.

And there’s absolutely no moral or social lesson regarding an ogre prince waking up Sleeping Beauty by raping her and getting her pregnant, nor is there any moral lesson to a prince waking Snow White by accident by arranging for her to be delivered to his castle as a literal trophy wife. Having as much “moral point” to the story as most of Sade’s works. Red Riding Hood at least had a moral lesson with its horrific elements regarding avoiding “wolves” as in sexual predators.


97 posted on 03/20/2017 10:02:00 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: otness_e

It’s true, not all bad things make money, but neither do all good things. And in general bad things, especially things that are bad because they follow the monotonous formula American audiences seem to crave, make more money than good things, especially good things that challenge the audience to think.

You’ve got a real hangup on smutty things. This isn’t about smut, this is about the story. It’s a simple piece of math: if you’re going to tell the story, tell the damn story, if you’re not don’t. I fine example of this is I Robot, the Will Smith vehicle, which if you ignore the fact that they named it after one of the finest collections of short stories by one of America’s most intellectual SF authors isn’t actually a bad movie, it’s brain dead action but it’s pretty fun. Except they DID name it after that fine collection, and the story has only the slightest resemblance to one of the stories in that collection, and that makes the movie suck.

There very much are moral and social lessons regarding an ogre prince raping Sleeping Beauty, actually the lesson comes BEFORE the rape in how pointless rude behavior setup their daughter for those troubles. You need to get over your Sade obsession. You’ve got a lot to get over. I suggest you get over this thread first. No really, I’m done. You can have the last word if you want, I ain’t reading it, although given how repetitive you are I feel like I already have. Good luck.


98 posted on 03/20/2017 10:10:43 AM PDT by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep, for such a simple man.)
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