{"id":688,"date":"2007-01-20T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2007-01-20T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T15:02:26","slug":"hounddog-wont-get-my-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Hounddog Won&#039;t Get My Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Coren says it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then they&#8217;ll sit back and look smug and caring and enlightened when moral and religious types argue that it&#8217;s emotionally and sexually unhealthy to use child rape as a form of titillation for witless audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Some have argued that it&#8217;s fine because Fanning&#8217;s mother was present during the ordeal and approved of her daughter&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, that&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s right to allow her 12-year-old child to behave in such a manner.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, any criticism will only encourage the chattering classes and inflate still further their sense of self-righteous paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>A child here, a moral code there, a broken generation somewhere else. Doesn&#8217;t matter, as long as you&#8217;re the centre of attention at a fashionable party. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image689\" align=\"Right\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/virginmovie.jpg\" alt=\"Virgin Movie Photo\" \/>What makes the last statement by Coren so valid to me is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1380487\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Kampmeier<\/a>, the director of Hounddog has credits in two movies to date and both are themed around some sexual act.<\/p>\n<p>Her first film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0368411\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin<\/a>, is about girl who finds herself pregnant without remembering having had sex so she concludes that she is carrying the child of god.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,60,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-entertainment","category-protest","category-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}