Hounddog

[cmotherofpirl]

When I heard that the movie Hounddog was going to have a scene which 12 year old actress Dakota Fanning acts like she is being raped by her father, I got sick to my stomach.

I know that incest and child abuse are topics on TV and in the movies all the time, but to portray the video of it is crossing a line I don’t think has been crossed before and I for one will not support the movie by watching it, renting it, or giving it the liberty of being played on my TV when it comes out on Pay TV.

The issue of incest/child abuse can be portrayed just fine without filming a rendition of it. I can only think of one reason this scene would be shot and needless to say Roman Polanski comes to mind.

Michael Coren says it best:

"Then they’ll sit back and look smug and caring and enlightened when moral and religious types argue that it’s emotionally and sexually unhealthy to use child rape as a form of titillation for witless audiences.

Some have argued that it’s fine because Fanning’s mother was present during the ordeal and approved of her daughter’s work.

Oh, well, that’s OK then. After all, there has never been a neurotic mother of an actor child in Hollywood, living her life vicariously and enjoying the money and glamour of being mum to a star.

It really is extraordinary that the same sort of people who routinely attack traditional parenting and vehemently oppose even mild spanking are so supportive of a mother’s right to allow her 12-year-old child to behave in such a manner.

Frankly, any criticism will only encourage the chattering classes and inflate still further their sense of self-righteous paranoia.

A child here, a moral code there, a broken generation somewhere else. Doesn’t matter, as long as you’re the centre of attention at a fashionable party. "

What makes the last statement by Coren so valid to me is that Deborah Kampmeier, the director of Hounddog has credits in two movies to date and both are themed around some sexual act.

Her first film, Virgin, is about girl who finds herself pregnant without remembering having had sex so she concludes that she is carrying the child of god.

I guess Kampmeier has discovered that sex sells in our society. Either that or she had a really screwed up childhood that we are will hear about when she writes her memoirs in a decade or two.

[homeschoolmom]

Sick. It's too bad that Dakota Fanning is involved in this. I guess it's her segue into an adult career. I agree wholeheartedly that the only reason to put in such scenes is for titillation of sick adults.

[jmjtina]

Can't wait to miss this one.

[Jesus_lol]

now thats way too far. watching that would make me sick to my stomach, and i regularily watch extremly violent movies. i cant imagine anyone will sit through this.

[Phoenix Reborn]

That's modernday movies for you.

[Theoketos]

I whole heartly agree. And it shows how much we have become desensitized to smut.

Not surprisingly the line of argument for showing it is that it tells a good stories and examines true human situtations...(sounds like another thread around here...shh)

[ardillacid]

[Totus Tuus]

She did such a good job in I Am Sam

I hate to see her go in this direction, but I think the blame belongs to her parents...

Edited January 25, 2007 by Totus Tuus

[cmotherofpirl]

Dakota Fanning is quite upset that critics are upset about the movie. Poor child.

[Red Knight]

At least people will know that it is incestuous rape before seeing it. Then when they are titillated by it, they can maybe stop and ruminate on how perverse and disgusting they are.

I saw a fascinating Korean film, Old Boy, bought it off Ebay, and watched it, there was a graphic sex scene involving two of age albeit widely disparate ages characters. I will admit it was titillating.

At the end of the film, I felt the desire to bathe in borax. I did not realize when I purchased the film that there was a twist at the end that revealed what the characters did not know at the time of their "triste"

My skin crawled, he was her father.

I no longer own the film, and do no recommend it to others.

[littleflower+JMJ]

[quote]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. [/quote]

Sorry but I knew there was a really I didn't like her movies much.

[I'm Mr. Snikkers]

You never know. They could cut the scene out dirring prodution.

[Phoenix Reborn]

[quote name='I'm Mr. Snikkers' post='1177932' date='Jan 27 2007, 01:44 PM']
You never know. They could cut the scene out DURING prodution.
[/quote]

They usually don't. They won't film it and just say,
"I know, lets take this part out!" just like that.

[I'm Mr. Snikkers]

You never know. They can do anything they want with production.

[Phoenix Reborn]

Don't expect it. Like I said, that's modernday movies for you.