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SUNDANCE WITH THE DEVIL .... (Hollywood VS. America)
NY Post ^ | January 18, 2007 | Lou Lumenick

Posted on 01/19/2007 5:32:00 AM PST by IrishMike

RAPE AND TORTURE RULE AT THE MOST SHOCKING FILM FESTIVAL EVER. SAMUEL L. Jackson chains a half-naked Christina Ricci to a radiator, a 12-year-old Dakota Fanning gets raped, Catherine Keener uses Ellen Page as a human ashtray, and worse - much worse.

Yep, it's time for the Sundance Film Festival, which opens tonight with Robert Redford's celebration of indieworld serving an even greater than usual quota of tabloid-worthy shocking sex and human misery amid the snow and the swag emporiums of Park City, Utah.

"Black Snake Moan," the Jackson-Ricci movie, has been generating buzz for months prior to its premiere, thanks to a pulpy poster depicting Ricci's bondage - and an even more lurid trailer of her trying to escape in chains, a cutoff T-shirt and panties.

Jackson plays a former bluesman whose wife has left him for his brother. One morning, he discovers the slutty Ricci beaten and dumped outside his Southern farm after a wild night of partying - and he sets out to cure her of her promiscuity with some very tough Christian love before her boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) returns from a National Guard stint.

" 'Black Snake Moan' is really about two very different people coming to heal each other," says writer-director Craig Brewer, whose "Hustle & Flow" created a sensation at Sundance '05.

Brewer's film will open next month, but a distributor is still being sought for what may well turn out to be an even bigger hot potato - "Hounddog," which has been notorious since word leaked out that Fanning had filmed a rape scene for the movie.

Set in Alabama of the late 1950s, "Hounddog" features the star of "Charlotte's Web" as an Elvis-obsessed singer who is ravaged by an older boy who entices her with tickets to see the King in concert.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; elections; hollyweird; hollywood; liberalagenda; sundance
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To: Long Island Pete
Supporters say its artistic freedom and they have the right to make a movie like this. Which is true...

It is? Where does the right to do evil come from? The Constitution? God, the ultimate source of all rights?

21 posted on 01/19/2007 6:07:36 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Volunteer
So, does this mean that a re-make of "Benji" isn't going to happen?

Sure it is. It's called "Benji Goes to San Francisco." Just wait.

22 posted on 01/19/2007 6:08:48 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: IrishMike

I am really looking forward to seeing Black Snake Moan. I am a big fan of Samuel L. Jackson, and the soundtrack looks like the most incredible thing ever.


23 posted on 01/19/2007 6:10:10 AM PST by Mr. Blonde (Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.)
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To: LS

Happyness was a great movie about the American Dream. It also enforced my belief that if everyone were stripped of their money and possessions, 10 years from now, the same people would be wealthy, the same people would be in debt, etc. The man in Happyness at every crossroads took the road needed for him to achieve his dream, no matter how hard. Too many Americans would have given up at the first or second setback.

I enjoy movies, but limit what I see to lighter stories and all Harry Potter. "A Good Year" with Russell Crowe was great. OK, Russell Crowe was great! :)


24 posted on 01/19/2007 6:11:45 AM PST by WV Mountain Mama (2007 resolution: learn how to rail a berm.)
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To: Aquinasfan

Who gets to judge what is evil?


25 posted on 01/19/2007 6:12:45 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: IrishMike

Good to know the names of several pieces of $%&* that I will not waste my money going to see.


26 posted on 01/19/2007 6:14:32 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Marxis-Dimocrats stand for everything I hate and wish to see destroyed, including them!)
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To: IrishMike
What a shame. I went to this festival a number years ago, before it went radical chic. In fact a movie by a Conservative won Best Picture that year - ("Metropolitan," from writer-director Whit Stillman). It was about movies back then.

Now it's The Ivy in snow, just a glorified party for Hollywood lefties.

27 posted on 01/19/2007 6:17:27 AM PST by veronica (http://images20.fotki.com/v360/photos/1/106521/3848737/gladysPSCP-vi.jpg)
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To: RetiredArmy

Good to know the names of several pieces of $%&* that I will not waste my money going to see.
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Public service provided by FR


28 posted on 01/19/2007 6:20:24 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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To: Aquinasfan

Didnt agree with the rest of my statement?


29 posted on 01/19/2007 6:20:33 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: durasell
"Who gets to judge what is evil?"

That's the job of every individual person, and "individual mileage may vary", as you Americans like to say.

However, there are some things that are quite apparently wrong and the vast majority of common people have no trouble recognizing it. It's our elites and their pitiful brainwashed followers who have a problem seeing the plain evidence of their own eyes.

30 posted on 01/19/2007 6:53:28 AM PST by Gantz (Th4+'5 th3 +h30ry, 4nyw4yz.)
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To: Gantz

So, the elites are evil? And everyone gets to point fingers and proclaim whatever they like evil?

I mean, geez, if we're talking about real, bonafide evil here -- Hitler, etc. -- then let's just lock all the elites up.


31 posted on 01/19/2007 7:27:53 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: IrishMike
It seems like anywhere that Liberals have the greatest influence or control there will be decay and nihilism. They're soo hip. They want to do for our nation's security what they've done to modern art.

Every conservative should read this book. From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun

32 posted on 01/19/2007 7:55:58 AM PST by elhombrelibre (After 9/11, Bush went to war with terrorists and their supporters. Democrats war against him.)
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To: elhombrelibre

It seems like anywhere that Liberals have the greatest influence or control there will be decay and nihilism.
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Los Angeles, New Orleans, New Jersey, New York ...
No arguements here !!!!!!


33 posted on 01/19/2007 7:58:30 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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To: durasell
"So, the elites are evil?"

Some are, but most are just fools. Unfortunately they are fools who control a vast amount of what most others get to see and hear via the media.

No good can come of it.

34 posted on 01/19/2007 8:03:52 AM PST by Gantz (Th4+'5 th3 +h30ry, 4nyw4yz.)
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To: IrishMike

35 posted on 01/19/2007 8:06:21 AM PST by Gritty (There are some desires that are not desirable - GK Chesterton)
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To: IrishMike

Plus their constituents are the most violent in America and their held to lower standards.


36 posted on 01/19/2007 8:10:50 AM PST by elhombrelibre (After 9/11, Bush went to war with terrorists and their supporters. Democrats war against him.)
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To: IrishMike

There was a time when the best artists felt an obligation to uplift society. Wordsworth recognized that "people have a degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation," and refused to pander to it. He recognized that it takes no talent to get attention by pandering to that "degrading thirst."

Our "popular culture" is now dominated by people who do nothing but pander. Completely amoral people, who are slowly desensitizing this culture to all things evil and degrading.


37 posted on 01/19/2007 8:12:11 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer

The dumbing down effect.
Starts in the schools, agendas are more important than an education.


38 posted on 01/19/2007 8:17:27 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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To: IrishMike
SAMUEL L. Jackson

chains a half-naked
Christina Ricci to a radiator.

A 12-year-old Dakota Fanning gets raped

by an older boy who entices her with
tickets to see the King in concert.

Hollywood promotes diversity & happiness
of American family values on and off the movie set.

Would Hollywood moguls
ever think of exploiting
children?

39 posted on 01/19/2007 9:04:36 AM PST by Major_Risktaker
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To: Major_Risktaker

Would Hollywood moguls ever think of exploiting children?
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Yes, on a daily basis.


40 posted on 01/19/2007 9:11:25 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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