Posted on 08/07/2006 6:13:10 PM PDT by BlueJ7
Hear about the porn theater that decided to run Shakespeare? This is what they put up on the marquee. Can you guess the plays?
Two Inches
Twelve Inches
Wet
Gay
Didn't "Bastard out of Carolina" deal with the same issue? Sexual molestation of minors is extremely common, sadly. It would be unusual if it didn't make its way to the movies.
NY POST--excerpt
Cute-as-a-button child star Dakota Fanning, who turned 12 in February, is venturing into sexually disturbing territory in a movie being filmed in North Carolina. The screenplay for "Hounddog" - a dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South, written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier - calls for Fanning's character to be raped in one explicit scene and to appear naked or clad only in "underpants" in several other horrifying moments.
Fanning's mother, Joy, and her Hollywood agent, Cindy Osbrink, see the movie as a possible Oscar vehicle for the pint-size star. But despite Fanning's status as a bankable actress - whose movies, including last year's "War of the Worlds," have earned more than half a billion dollars since 2001 - the alarming material seems to have scared off potential investors from the under-$5 million indie project.
"The two taboos in Hollywood are child abuse and the killing of animals," a source close to the situation told me. "In this movie, both things happen."
"The subject matter is very tough," Robins told me, "but I was attracted to it because in the end it's a story about human understanding, about a little girl who's dealt a very bad deck of cards, but finds solace in the music of Elvis and survives."
They must give you free membership at NAMBLA. You're doing a helluva job with their talking points.
Sometimes I just want a movie to entertain and sometimes I want to be challenged to think.
I watched To Kill A Mockingbird Sunday afternoon for umpteenth time. While perhaps not as graphic as what is described in this movie, it is still disturbing as it was meant to be and I’m a better person for it because it makes me feel and then think.
From when Atticus shoots the rabid dog to the perceived menace of 'Boo' Radley’ to the stalking of the children, Scout and Jem in the dark woods and the very real menace of racism at it’s vilest, the novel and film deals with rape, murder, intimidation, vigilantism and violence with young children in the middle of it all and in harms way. It also is a story about the importance of rule of law and justice for all, of a father's wisdom and love and the goodness of most people and in community.
I think it all depends on whether a rape scene is relevant and important in telling the story and what the story is saying about us as a society or whether it is done to merely shock or titillate. I don’t know enough about this movie to pass judgment on it’s possible redeeming qualities despite it’s disturbing content.
I also remember studying Greek Mythology in school at about 12 and that was some pretty sick stuff too…rape, kidnapping, adultery, lust, murder… BTW - sounds a lot like many stories in Bible too.
That would be Death in Venice with whatshisname...
I believe that the freedom of the creative artist to deal with whatever subject matter he chooses is paramount and that the finished product should be judged according to its merits or lack thereof.
Man, what a rebel!
You realize that technology is responsible for all this hub-bub. Thirty years ago they would have made the movie. It would have played in about ten art houses and vanished forever. The majority of people never even would have heard of it. The thing would have been as obscure as Mysteries of the Organism.
30 years ago 'Snakes on a Plane' would just play a few drive ins...
Apparently her parents are easy to manipulate. The filmmaker couldn't shoot the scene any other way? It's amazing what filmmakers used to convey without resorting to overt graphics. There's a decided lack of creativity nowadays.
I wonder what Snakes on a Plane is about?
BTW substitute Sweet Movie for Mysteries of the Organism in previous post. I'm having flashbacks of obscure 70s films.
Well, go ahead and defend the concept of Dakota- Fanning- Nude-and-Raped for Oscar Gold, if you must.
Just don't get busted like PeeWee Herman while you are watching it in a public theater.
You must wear out lots of trench coats.
How the heck is that relevant?
In fact, they reluctantly didn't want her to pursue an acting career but did so at the advice of an agency because her child was such an unusual prodigy.
Yeah, right. What do you expect them to say? "We're crazed stage parents?"
"artists"? Get a frigging grip.
Borges is a fairly reasonable guy on most subjects. He presented a pretty cogent argument. There's no need to be insulting.
GREAT film!
The version released theaterically in the U.S. actually had some of the stuff between Reno and Portman cut out.
Hmmmmm.......but then, MJ likes lil boys..........so, maybe they'll see PeeWee Herman or one of Muhammad's homicidal/psychomaniacal/goat-buggering "warriors" sitting in the back row, with a trenchcoat and sunglasses.
Should all unpleasant matter be depicted?
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