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Originally posted by lilowl53
I am not religious at all, but I still have values and undersand the basic "rules" of what is right and wrong, and I think so many MANY people today do not. So sad. You're not alone in thinking that movie was disturbing.
Originally posted by Thurisaz
What is wrong with media? These movies might tell a fictional story but then they are getting children to act out the scenes!!!
Now if a person at home set up a camera and said, "right kids, we are making a movie so take off your clothes or play a game" THAT IS AGAINST THE LAW!!! and yet here we see MOVIE Producers do the same thing and we don't see a problem with it???
It is just a movie??? The child actors are too young to be introduced to adult themes.
Originally posted by MaxBlack
Parents and the movie producers are involved with their billion dollar industry lobbying efforts in Washington, DC, to help pass the laws and legislation that legally allows the parents and the movie industries the legal means to use children in the manner we have seen them do so without a concern for the social wrong it produces among the children.
This current business practice will most likely continue, unless something is done to change what is now common movie making matter of fact, abuse of the highest order.
I take such a hard position on this issue because, well, ask yourself this question, "why if they can produce monsters, armies, giants, ghosts, bugs, ants and a multitude of repeated CGI characters and such do they not use that same technology to create children for the background shots needed in these movies?"
Force movie makers to use alternative cinema methods in some responsible and regulated manner and I think we all would benefit from such an effort. So would the children.
Originally posted by MaxBlack
..."why if they can produce monsters, armies, giants, ghosts, bugs, ants and a multitude of repeated CGI characters and such do they not use that same technology to create children for the background shots needed in these movies?" ...
Originally posted by MaxBlack
... just use special effects, CGI or whatever will work, Incorporate green screen or blue screen segments into the editing and the parents can still hock their kids into slavery for a few dollars...
River Phoenix on Hollywood, October 1991 "Honestly, I can't stand parties and I hate clubs and I hate bars. You won't catch me there...."
Phoenix was pronounced dead less than an hour later, at 1:51 a.m. On November 12, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said that Phoenix's death was a result of "acute multiple drug intoxication" involving lethal levels of coc aine and heroin. Also present in his system were traces of Valium, marijuana, and an over-the-counter cold medicine. No needle marks were found on his body. Phoenix spent his years in Hollywood cultivating an image of ascetic wholesomeness. "I met him at a Fugazi show," recalls Kerin. "He was the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet." When People magazine did an April 1990 story about "Hollywood's New Squares," he was prominently mentioned, along with Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder, as one of the new breed of actors who go to the movies, shun the clubs, and are happiest at home, fixing dinner for a few friends.
Originally posted by Thurisaz
reply to post by boncho
so how do you explain a rape scene then?
and what about the smoking? so the kids weren't smoking?
Yes they were, in the movie they were inhaling and exhaling cigerettes...
is that a camera trick? pffft!!!!!