SUNDANCE WITH THE DEVIL .... (Hollywood VS. America)

NY Post ^ | January 18, 2007 | Lou Lumenick

[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.

[zarf]

The media swollows the press releases and gives the producers the publicity they want.

Pure hyped outrage for promotion. zzzzzzzzzzz.

[CDHart]

It appears that this bunch sinks lower each year.

Carolyn

[Hegemony Cricket]

Will the people (?) involved in filming "hounddog" be arrested and charged with creating and distributing child pornography?

[mewzilla]

Hooray for Hollyweird.

[Tokra]

Does anyone wonder why the muslims think the US is morally bankrupt? Especially since this is what the world sees coming out of America. I'm afraid this sort of thing will just keep getting worse and worse.

I'm certainly no prude, (far from it)but even reading about these sort of movies disgusts me.

[mewzilla]

Dakota Fanning 'raped' in new film North Carolina prosecutors 'aware' of 12-year-old girl's graphic scene

NC.

Jeez....

[Long Island Pete]

Where does one draw the line? Supporters say its artistic freedom and they have the right to make a movie like this. Which is true but just because you have the right to do it doesn't mean you have to. Hollyweird is the cesspool of society and as far as I am concerned just needs to be flushed away.

[Hegemony Cricket]

I'm just thinking that if you, or me, or any other average-joe, non-hollywood-elite-artsy-fartsy-type person were to produce and distribute the exact same material it would be (rightfully) labeled child pronography, and prosecution would (rightfully) follow...

[kellynla]

BTTT

[Obie Wan]

When you've got no talent or imagination beyond perversion like the "Hollywood crowd" you've got to fall back on what you're all about,human misery and twisted perversion,however every year that goes by these losers get less and less of my money !!!

[mewzilla]

I'm just thinking that if you, or me, or any other average-joe, non-hollywood-elite-artsy-fartsy-type person were to produce and distribute the exact same material it would be (rightfully) labeled child pronography, and prosecution would (rightfully) follow

But, according to this link....

Local Dakota Fanning film stirs controversy

...Text books on North Carolina law say that context is important when it comes to defining child pornography...

Uh huh....

[mewzilla]

Paging Nancy Pelosi....

[LS]

Before everyone gets carried away with the usual bashing (most of it deserved) of Hollywood, realize that "Amazing Grace" is due out soon---a movie about Wilberforce's nearly single-handed abolition of slavery in England. It was presented at Sundance, and I'm told that the director said, "Without Jesus Christ, this movie would never have been made."

Also, while I haven't yet seen it, I'm told that "The Road to Happyness," a true story, is one of the most positive depictions of capitalism EVER on screen. There is zero reference to white racism, and all the businessmen in this movie are portrayed as encouraging, moral, and likeable.

[brushcop]

Okay, but Hollyweird needs to be flamed for the perversion nevertheless.

[mewzilla]

So don't throw the baby out with the bath water, is that what you're saying?

If so, okay.

My response: don't bathe the baby in a cesspit :)

[Volunteer]

So, does this mean that a re-make of "Benji" isn't going to happen?

[Aquinasfan]

he sets out to cure her of her promiscuity with some very tough Christian love

Hollywood really is an open sewer.

[IrishMike]

So, does this mean that a re-make of "Benji" isn't going to happen?

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Sure, Right after save Willy II.

[IrishMike]

Looking for the tree through the forest ?