Dakota Fanning's racey movie

[Faithless]

I agree with the author, here, that this next movie of little miss Fanning's sounds a bit much.

Why would her parents agree to this?

Dakota Fanning's Rape Scene?!?! (http://dailyblabber.ivillage.com/entertainment/archives/2006/07/dakota_fannings_rape_scene_1.html)

I'll confess that I find kid star Dakota Fanning to be uber-annoying, but I'm feeling a lot more sympathetic towards her if this is the kind of judgment her parents and agent are exhibiting on her behalf . . .

The New York Daily News reports that the 12-year-old is starring in a new drama called Hounddog, in which she will appear nude or wearing nothing but underwear, and for which she has already filmed a traumatic scene in which her character is raped.

Her agent says she sees the movie as an Oscar bid for the not-yet-a-teen star, and is proud of the acting skill she has displayed in the movie, which was so disturbing that, at one point, production had to be shut down because of a lack of financing.

This actually sheds a bit of light on a Fanning issue that's been bugging me for awhile. When Mr. & Mrs. Smith came out in 2005, I attended a media screening for the movie, and the theater was totally packed (everyone was looking to get a peek at Brangelina's on-screen chemistry!), so packed, in fact, that a few people were even sitting in the aisles, because they couldn't find a seat. Then who walks into the theater? Miss Dakota, with some sort of flack/handler/agent/manager/whoever at her side. She looks around, picks a seat and all of a sudden, most of the people in an entire row of seats are asked to clear out, because, we overhear a PR rep say, Dakota doesn't want to have people sitting in the seats on either side of her!

Diva-in-training? Yes. But I also remember thinking that Mr. & Mrs. Smith wasn't exactly appropriate for the then-11-year-old kid to see. Apparently, that isn't a concern at Casa Fanning . . . .

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Now compare that story with this about American Idol star, Fantasia.

If Barrino has the difficulty to do such a scene, although it looks like she's agreed to do it anyway, how's it that Fanning isn't concerned?

Granted Barrino has some reallife reasons for not wanting to do the scene, but wouldn't it be a bit much for a 12-year old to consider, because of the seriously mature theme?

Fantasia Barrino Coaxed Through Rape Scenes By Director's Son (http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/07/23/fantasia_barrino_coaxed_through_rape_sce)

07/23/06

American Idol star Fantasia Barrino refused to relive her teenage rape ordeal for a harrowing new TV movie until director Debbie Allen's sensitive son was recruited to play her brutal lover.

The singer didn't even think she'd be able to watch the rape scenes being shot on the set of Life Is Not A Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story and told Allen she'd have to hire a body double for the part.

But Barrino agreed to play herself in the end, thanks to a friendship she formed with Allen's actor son DeVaughn Wilson, who plays her attacker in the film.

The singer says, "I went through a lot of different emotions... It was really tough because I called Debbie and I said, 'I can't do it. I'm not doing it.' She talked to me, and she helped me out a lot. And the good part about it is her son played the part. And he came in, and he was so warm and funny. I said, 'All right. If you touch me, I'm going to punch you.' He goes, 'I'm going to punch you back.' So it made it a whole lot easier for me."

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[Powerful T]

In before someone says "Fap fap fap"

...wait.

[deerhoot]

i wish i had the power to clear people out from either side of me at the movie theatre. i'd also get rid of kids under 8.

[nonamerasian]

I don't understand why movies shoot rape scenes.

The imagery is not necessary.

[Faithless]

I don't understand why movies shoot rape scenes.

The imagery is not necessary.
I agree.

I think we know how brutal it is.

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In before someone says "Fap fap fap"

...wait.
Nobody does that to those kind of scenes, do they?

[Irezumi Kiss]

I was discussing this on another board. The general consensus was that, if it wasn't Miss Fanning doing this, would anyone really give a shit?

She may be 12 years old, but she's still an actress. So being that, it's Dakota's character being portrayed that is being raped, not Dakota herself. She, her manager and her parents have given the go-ahead for her to portray this role, so technically, there should be no issue. I personally will have nothing to do with child rape but this isn't a porn, yes? This is supposed to be a "real" film about a real issue, not something made for stimulation.

Now, one would have to be blind not to see that everyone concerned —or should I say the movie publicity — is riding on the coattails of the notoriety of Dakota's celebrity and her age, mixed in with the salaciousness of the role itself. Of course there's a "message" in this flim, but I doubt people are going totally altruistic in going to see this in order to strike a blow towards pedophilia and Lolita-ism in our society. I'm sure if she were just getting slapped around no one would give a shit, either. Lindsay Lohan is a big enough screw-up these days that if she were to do the same thing and portray an explicit rape scene in order for an Oscar bid, it would be an even bigger hot topic for a few weeks until Paris does another hamburger commercial in her draws or whatever.

The real monster here is the nature of celebrity and how people are no longer actors but movie stars pimping themselves for our attention/judgments while milking our $$$ for flash mob films trying to get that #1 spot in the first week. Bottom line, if this movie is a good movie, I'll go see it. The female and male rape scenes in "Irreversible" tested my gut to the brink and I sat thru it fine. I doubt this joint could be worse or even to that those.

[Faithless]

To me, whether it's Fanning or some other 12 year old, I'd think it would be a bit much for them to undertake.

I think there's enough real life to make us aware of the horrors of rape, especially of minors, that bringing it to the big screen does nothing, accept as you say, to sort of, present Lolita-ism.

[Powerful T]

Nobody does that to those kind of scenes, do they?

...or DO they?

[Faithless]

According to suicidegirls (http://suicidegirls.com/news/celeb/17287/page7/#post5124084), and I can believe this --

Child molesters everywhere will be burning up their DVD players with the scenes of young Dakota’s smooth, pre-adolescent body brutalized by a violent offender, but I’m sure the director portrayed rape of a child in good taste.

That and your anime freaks, who'll want to make sure they save the movie pics on their computers.

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^Hey, i take offense to that, i'll have you know i prefer them animated!

I guess now we'll have to call her Dakota Fapping! get it?

Seriously though, this isn't surprising, its the next natural step of media evolution after the public has been desensitized to it by Law&Order SVU

[Powerful T]

^Hey, i take offense to that, i'll have you know i prefer them animated!


Hear that?

That's the sound of the U.S.S. Gratuitous Anime Panty Shot (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Gratuitous_Anime_Panty_Shot) firing up her engines.

[mr. x]

^---thanks a friggin lot buddy, got re-addicted to uncyclopedia again

[Powerful T]

^---thanks a friggin lot buddy, got re-addicted to uncyclopedia again

No problemo.

[deez nuts]

one of the best rape scenes in a mainstream movie was when jodie foster was getting raped in the movie "the accused."

[mr. x]

one of the best rape scenes in a mainstream movie was when jodie foster was getting raped in the movie "the accused."
Im operating under the assumption you have a top 10?

[bluemonq]

He probably has a Top 100.
That and your hentai freaks, who'll want to make sure they save the movie pics on their computers.
Corrected for great justice.

[Powerful T]

Corrected for great justice.

You know what you doing.

Also, in before

LOL ALL ANIMAY IS HENTAE WITH SCHOOLGIRLS AND RAPE AMIRITE

[sageb1]

hopefully her line during the rape is, "Stop it please! It hurts!"

I once saw what was purported to be a rape scene in a crappy Russian adult video. the "victim" is in a thin robe, naked underneath.

if that was a rape, she certainly was too passive, especially after getting socked in the temple.

i was expecting crying and a lot more resistance.

but my russian is horrible, so she could have been saying a lot more than what i saw.

It beats Bro Rape though.