Posted on 10/22/2009 12:32:55 PM PDT by Perdogg
The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.
Kidman was speaking yesterday in her role as a UN ambassador to a House foreign affairs subcommittee that is considering legislation to tackle violence against women overseas.
When asked by Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher whether the film industry "played a bad role" in the way it portrayed women, Kidman replied "Probably", before going on to say that she refused to take roles that portrayed women as weak sex objects. "I can't be responsible for all of Hollywood, but I can certainly be responsible for my own career."
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She’s part of Hollywood. Is this a confession?
He was asking a question that he already knew the answer too. Nicole just confirmed it.
She played Sam Neil’s wife in a movie where she was raped by Billy Zane. I guess she forgot.
Does Nicole take responsibility for picking ding bat husbands?
Is Congress now going to regulate Hollywood?
“The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.”
Says the actress who was in Eyes Wide Shut. lol
Her whole career is based on her looks, period.
Time to get off your high horse honey, you aren’t that good an actress to make it on skills alone.
she looked good in that movie.
Here’s the thing. Men will look on women as sex objects with or without Hollywood’s help. This has little to do with violence, since men always have, and always will, look on women as sex objects. Other factors must be looked to in explanation as to why one period of history has more or less violence than another.
Who knows, maybe Hollywood’s somewhat to blame for the levels of violence prevalent today. But it’s not because they treat women as sex objects. As I explained, all heterosexual men (and some homosexual men), violent or not, do so.
Pictures ONLY, please.
Well they already have ratings system, as if that matters.
The point is the moral decay of entertainment fare.
Didn’t Nicole do a gang rape scene in “Eyes Wide Shut”?
And how many takes did the director use until they were happy with the scene?
Why not, turn about is fair play, Hollywood has regulated who went to DC for years...
Harvey Keitel was originally in “Eyes Wide Shut”.
There was an orgy scene and unfortunately for Nicole, Harvey is a “method actor”.
Guess why Cruise got him fired and all of his scenes reshot using another actor....:)
there is solution to this, don’t buy a ticket and turn it off.
“Her whole career is based on her looks, period.
Time to get off your high horse honey, you aren’t that good an actress to make it on skills alone.”
Funny thing is, they gave her an Oscar once she made herself a little bit ugly. Seriously. She put on a fake nose to play Virginia Woolf in “The Hours,” and BAM!, there’s your award. I can’t perceive and difference between it and any other of her performances besides the nose.
That was a great film.
Hey Nicole, you are hot.
But didnt you do that movie about having violent sex with minors and then brainwashing them into killing your husband??
Does violence against family men not matter?
Just curious.
Shhhh...you’re still really hot.
‘To Die For’. You didn’t like it? It was a good satire of the Media.
I loved it.
Just pointing to the hypocrisy.
I always find it hilarious how all my Hollywood friends are SOOOO liberal, but are absolutely fascinated by conservative subjects and themes.
And I’m not just talking about their viewing habits— i.e. my near-marxist friends being hooked on “24,” I’m talking about the kind of material that they create as well.
I can’t tell you how many of my lib friends are into writing movie scripts that essentially glorify the use of guns, violence and action to solve problems. I have NEVER read a script from one of my lib friends that glorified the use of reasoned negotiation as a means to an end.
It’s weird.
E.W.S.- Worst Movie Ever. And that piano “water torture” soundtrack- maddening.
Right...they should all be in burka's like the Muslim's. There is certainly no violence against Muslim women...right?
My wife made me go see “The Others” and it sucked so badly I beat her unrecognizable, so I sort of agree.
In many of the movies out today, men are either slapped or kicked in the gonads by women. Of course this is meant to portray women who are strong, stand up to their men. On the other hand, they can get away with this because men are not allowed to be strong or stand up to their women. Now I don’t think of men as strong when they go physical on women, so why is it a depiction of a strong women when they go physical on men? Perhaps Nicole could grace us with an answer on that.
In movies, the guys who do go physical on women are depicted as vile creatures in the plot, that nobody would want to be like. There’s an audible gasp when they do it. When women go physical on men, they’re depicted in the plot as cool and the types of women girls should want to be like. There’s laughter and frivolity that accompanys it.
What didn’t you like? It was a great ghost story.
Hey, hey, hey - Keith Urban is no dingbat - he’s a hunk with a great voice.....lol Now Tom Cruise? Well, let’s just say you’ve given dingbats a bad rap when compared to that idiot....
Kidman and Sex Object works for me!
But if they’d left Keitel in.....LOL
She also signed a petition supporting Israel in the 2006 Lebanon conflict.
I know this is going ot be grossly non-PC, but men have always looked at actresses/women in the theatre and female pop stars as less worthy of respectful treatment than a lady who isn’t part of the entertainment industry. I don’t doubt that men look at women with sex in mind, it depends on degrees.
If you’re dressed decently men might at most whistle, but they will restrain themselves and decent ment will be respectful and treat a decently dressed young women with respect in general. There are laws to protect women and harshly prosecute men who step out of line.
Now, we all see comments on here about Britney Spears and actresses who are half naked in photos. That sort of dress used to be confined to celebrity women, but since a lot of women/girls are dressing like celebrities and mainly taking on their morals as well, men are responding in kind. With the exception of the stalker/rapist, women are treated how they treat themselves.
She was also in a movie called “Birth” and she played a widow whose husband was reincarnated as a ten year old boy. I didn’t see it but I remember reading something about a kiss, which sounded like exploitation of children to me.
I remember that movie...”Dead Calm,” IIRC. Good grief was she hot. Ridiculously, stupefyingly, are-you-kidding-me hot. Nowadays, though? Too much plastic surgery for me. One more round on her face and the corners of her eyes are going to meet in the back of her head.
}:-)4
This thread is worthless without pictures.
“by portraying them as sex objects”
What’s she talking about and how come there aren’t any pictures of her yet??
“Nowadays, though? Too much plastic surgery for me.”
Well, yeah, but she’s also in her 40s, right? It goes either way. She could never, ever reclaim her former looks under any circumstances.
It wasn't a husband, it was a prop - purely a business arrangement.
“...in an appearance before the US Congress ...”
OK, how do I get one of those? Oh, you have to be rich or famous? Guess that leaves out most of us.
I bet she’d be absolutely stunning in her 40s without having her facial skin winched back by turnbuckles once a year. :)
}:-)4
“I bet she’d be absolutely stunning in her 40s without having her facial skin winched back by turnbuckles once a year”
Maybe, at least relative to other 40-somethings. But not like she was in her early films.
Why is the United States House of Representatives involved in this at all?
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