Daktoa Fanning's new movie, "Hounddog," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week with rough reviews. Both the movie's producer's, director, even Fanning's parents have been caught under fire and deservingly so.
"Hounddog," is serious coming of age 60's era story about a girl growing up in the South. At point in the film, 12-year-old actress Fanning's character, is raped by an adult actor's character while another 12-year-old actor's character watches. Although the team behind the project defend the scene by saying it is brief, darkly lit and does not show any nudity, I have to jump on the upset bandwagon on this one. I feel that accepting money for your tweleve year old child or employee (depending on who we're talking about here) to allow her herself to be "pretend raped" on film is deplorable (also shameful.)
In Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film, "Reservoir Dogs," there is a scene in which a bank robber cuts off the ear of a kidnapped police officer that is strapped to a chair with a mouth covered in duct tape. Tarantino, obviously going for Scorsese-esque violence, shot the scene both showing the ear being sliced off and having the camera pan away to an empty part of the room while the audience is forced to listen to what is taking place. The latter scene made to the finished product because it was more emotionally affecting. This is the technique I believe "Hounddog" director, Deborah Kampmeier should have employed.
With most major production companies backing away, it is not likely that this film will get a major theater release let alone an Oscar nod in 2008. I would be suprised if it ends up anything else than a limited dvd release with a large mandated disclaimer stuck to the front (which is far more than it deserves.)
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Hey she could have been out killing puppies.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/26/D8MT6K380.html
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