I’ll be honest with you. I was already in a lousy mood this morning but this story has got me fuming. This is sick. Even civilized man has an evil nature and this proves it. The movie-makers can pass a lot of things off as “art” but not this one.
From OneNewsNow.com:
At issue is the movie Hounddog, starring Dakota Fanning. Donna Miller with Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Carolina explains the movie’s premise. “She was 12 years old when they were filming the movie, but she plays a nine-year-old who was lured by a promise of Elvis concert tickets but instead gets violently raped by a 20-year-old man,” she says.
Fanning did not have a stand-in actress for the scene. “She is in various stages of undress [in the movie],” Miller adds. “She is fondled and, yes, she actually filmed it. She calls it ‘just acting’ — but that’s a pretty rough scene for a 12-year-old.”
There’s icing on the cake, too. The producers of this horror show were given a $387,000 tax credit for making this garbage!
I know the rape of children has disgustingly become a part of reality. There are some sick, sick people out there who have done these heinous crimes which, despite what the Supreme Court thinks, I believe should be punishable by death. As terrible as this reality is, why in the world would I want to see it in a movie?!
Yes, go ahead and deal with the subject of child rape. Deal with the coping and the events surrounding a tragedy of that nature. But there is no need to show the act of rape itself! What kind of sick mind wants this in a movie?!
Don’t go see this movie. Don’t let your curiosity get the best of you.
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I heard about this movie about a year and a half ago. I have no comment on the tax break they recieved, but as far as child rape goes — it is a rough subject, and I don’t think it was meant to be “entertainment”. Things like this happen in life, and sometimes a visual reminder isn’t always the worst thing so we just don’t lump that in with all the other bad things of the world. I certainly don’t think the movie is glamorizing it, but I do also understand why it would be offensive to a lot of people. Some movies deal with painful and nasty topics like this not for entertainment value, but because life isn’t always a box of chocolates.
It should also be noted that Dakota Fanning is not just another “child star”, either. The roles she is choosing, as well as how she conducts herself in interviews and in the press, indicate that she is more mature at her young age than other “actresses/stars” (i.e. Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton) are now.
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I should also note that I am not planning on seeing it, myself.
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See, I can understand the good that can be found in showing some of the bad realities of life, but there is a limit. For instance, I don’t believe it’s necessary to show a person being violently killed in order to tell the story of a murder. The same goes for this. I know that art imitates life but I’m afraid an overexposure to some things creates an epidemic of life imitating art. We become insensitive to these types of things because we see them all the time on TV and in movies. While, for most people, a movie like this will enrage them against the evils of the world that would do this to a child, I can also see this placing seeds in the minds of some others. I don’t know. The whole thing is just very disturbing to me.
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“While, for most people, a movie like this will enrage them against the evils of the world that would do this to a child, I can also see this placing seeds in the minds of some others.”
Excellent point. I would think it would enrage more people than inspire though, because chances are, people who do watch movies like this for fun “entertainment” are probably a little deranged to begin with.
I should also note that I have read this scene, while disturbing, is short in length and not the main focus of the movie, although a huge “plot” point.
It is very disturbing, and that is what I think the whole purpose of a movie like this existing is. Its disturbing on so many different levels to people who have any decentcy, and you don’t even have to watch the movie to be disturbed by it.
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As a rape survivor who has seen this film I know this film is neither child porn nor an exploitation film. This movie is in no way evil. I can relate to Hounddog in many ways and I’m sure many other rape survivors will be able to do the same.
The way the rape in this film happens is important and couldn’t be glossed over for to do so is to deny how many so rapists rationalize harming someone they know.
If this subject matter isn’t what you’d want to see then by all means don’t go see it in the same way that I refuse to go see horror films, serial killer films and any film which turns bloody violence into entertainment.
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