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11/19/09
11/19/09
Well, supposedly, anyway. I mean it all could have been done for publicity, I guess.
11/19/09
The guy does stupid amateur horror/sexploitation films. Exploitative, sure. Porn, it is not. Disgusting? Certainly. Porn? Nope.
C'mon, peeps.
11/19/09
This article is about the pornification of inadvertently famous women. I think it makes a good point about the media's sexual objectification of women, but it doesn't exactly apply in the case of the Jaycee film. While I can only speculate on what the film will be, Shane Ryan has not made porn films in the past. It doesn't appear that he is going to all of a sudden start making porn films now. His work isn't like "Nailin Paylin", where a famous woman is replaced with a big-boobed porn star lookalike and put into ridiculous sexual situations. Granted, if it was, it would still be entirely inappropriate. But a look a Ryan's previous films shows that he makes sexually violent exploitation films. Though that doesn't fit as neatly into the thesis of this article, I think it's even more upsetting. Here is a man who has made a career off of portrayals of extreme sexual violence, announcing that he is planning a film based on the story of a rape survivor. It's one thing to make violent films (I personally love horror films, though this brand of exploitation film is definitely not my style). But to take someone's personal story and most likely turn it into an exploitation piece (as that is his M.O.) does strike me as "breathtakingly unkind," to quote the Dugard family.
(I don't want to link to Mr. Ryan's work, but a quick search will show you that many of his movie trailers are available on YouTube.)
07/08/09
07/08/09
If anyone's interested in her, be sure to read her autobiography, Sunshine and Shadow!
I'm still upset that Pickfair was demolished. :(
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Maybe Watts. NOT Swank.
07/08/09
Yeah, I'm trying to think of an actress that fits that "woman-child" thing Pickford had going, but totally drawing a blank.
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I wish more people appreciated silent films. They are ridiculously beautiful.
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I wrote an essay on her in history class in grade 10!
07/08/09
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Also, Now Voyager is a really good one.
01/08/09
SO GOOD
I HAVE LOVED IT SINCE I WAS 12.
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And since things like Vaughn and Aniston's "Break Up" do seem to be carrying a hideously similar message, well, then, I'd just as soon watch La Holm and La Davis rip up the scenery with their bicuspids.
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Now sit down, darling, with a martini, please, very dry, and watch it again.