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Nicole Kidman says Hollywood contributes to violence against women
Guardian UK ^ | 10.22.09

Posted on 10/22/2009 12:32:55 PM PDT by Perdogg

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Hey Nicole, you are hot.

But didnt you do that movie about having violent sex with minors and then brainwashing them into killing your husband??

Does violence against family men not matter?

Just curious.
Shhhh...you’re still really hot.


21 posted on 10/22/2009 12:46:55 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: rbmillerjr

‘To Die For’. You didn’t like it? It was a good satire of the Media.


22 posted on 10/22/2009 12:48:21 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Perdogg
she refused to take roles that portrayed women as weak sex objects

Since when? There are scenes on youtube that indicate otherwise.
23 posted on 10/22/2009 12:49:53 PM PDT by Dewey Revoltnow
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To: Borges

I loved it.

Just pointing to the hypocrisy.


24 posted on 10/22/2009 12:49:56 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: Perdogg

I always find it hilarious how all my Hollywood friends are SOOOO liberal, but are absolutely fascinated by conservative subjects and themes.

And I’m not just talking about their viewing habits— i.e. my near-marxist friends being hooked on “24,” I’m talking about the kind of material that they create as well.

I can’t tell you how many of my lib friends are into writing movie scripts that essentially glorify the use of guns, violence and action to solve problems. I have NEVER read a script from one of my lib friends that glorified the use of reasoned negotiation as a means to an end.

It’s weird.


25 posted on 10/22/2009 12:50:37 PM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: Salamander

E.W.S.- Worst Movie Ever. And that piano “water torture” soundtrack- maddening.


26 posted on 10/22/2009 12:51:31 PM PDT by PfromHoGro (Free Rush)
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To: Perdogg
The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.

Right...they should all be in burka's like the Muslim's. There is certainly no violence against Muslim women...right?

27 posted on 10/22/2009 12:52:03 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Perdogg

My wife made me go see “The Others” and it sucked so badly I beat her unrecognizable, so I sort of agree.


28 posted on 10/22/2009 12:53:17 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Perdogg

In many of the movies out today, men are either slapped or kicked in the gonads by women. Of course this is meant to portray women who are strong, stand up to their men. On the other hand, they can get away with this because men are not allowed to be strong or stand up to their women. Now I don’t think of men as strong when they go physical on women, so why is it a depiction of a strong women when they go physical on men? Perhaps Nicole could grace us with an answer on that.

In movies, the guys who do go physical on women are depicted as vile creatures in the plot, that nobody would want to be like. There’s an audible gasp when they do it. When women go physical on men, they’re depicted in the plot as cool and the types of women girls should want to be like. There’s laughter and frivolity that accompanys it.


29 posted on 10/22/2009 12:53:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: P from Sheb
That was Ligeti on the soundtrack. He was a major modern composer. Kubrick used his music in 2001 as well.
30 posted on 10/22/2009 12:54:33 PM PDT by Borges
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To: domenad

What didn’t you like? It was a great ghost story.


31 posted on 10/22/2009 12:54:58 PM PDT by Borges
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To: bgill

Hey, hey, hey - Keith Urban is no dingbat - he’s a hunk with a great voice.....lol Now Tom Cruise? Well, let’s just say you’ve given dingbats a bad rap when compared to that idiot....


32 posted on 10/22/2009 12:55:20 PM PDT by BamaDi (I'm glad that I'm free, though I wish I was a dog and Obama was a tree!)
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To: Perdogg

Kidman and Sex Object works for me!


33 posted on 10/22/2009 12:55:38 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: P from Sheb

But if they’d left Keitel in.....LOL


34 posted on 10/22/2009 12:55:54 PM PDT by Salamander ("Welcome to my nightmare.....I think you're gonna like it")
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To: BamaDi
Rumor has it that she left Cruise because she wanted no part of the Scientology stuff.
35 posted on 10/22/2009 12:56:33 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges; narses
yes and that she has converted back to Catholicism
36 posted on 10/22/2009 12:57:36 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg

She also signed a petition supporting Israel in the 2006 Lebanon conflict.


37 posted on 10/22/2009 12:58:33 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Tublecane

I know this is going ot be grossly non-PC, but men have always looked at actresses/women in the theatre and female pop stars as less worthy of respectful treatment than a lady who isn’t part of the entertainment industry. I don’t doubt that men look at women with sex in mind, it depends on degrees.

If you’re dressed decently men might at most whistle, but they will restrain themselves and decent ment will be respectful and treat a decently dressed young women with respect in general. There are laws to protect women and harshly prosecute men who step out of line.

Now, we all see comments on here about Britney Spears and actresses who are half naked in photos. That sort of dress used to be confined to celebrity women, but since a lot of women/girls are dressing like celebrities and mainly taking on their morals as well, men are responding in kind. With the exception of the stalker/rapist, women are treated how they treat themselves.


38 posted on 10/22/2009 12:59:23 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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Nicole Kidman says Hollywood contributes to violence against women
 
 
 



39 posted on 10/22/2009 1:00:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: Slapshot68

She was also in a movie called “Birth” and she played a widow whose husband was reincarnated as a ten year old boy. I didn’t see it but I remember reading something about a kiss, which sounded like exploitation of children to me.


40 posted on 10/22/2009 1:00:21 PM PDT by Lilyjuslan
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