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America’s Incest Obsession: “Flowers in the Attic” Is Back, as Are the Memories
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Posted on 01/17/2014 12:36:26 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

Ahead of the new Lifetime movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews 1979 cult classic, we explore why incest plotlines are so enduring in popular culture

Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic, the movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews’ sordid and soapy tale of family dysfunction, will air tomorrow night, and for millions of American women in their 30s and 40s, it’s sure to be mandatory viewing....

A survey of incest plotlines in popular culture over the past few years alone includes Game of Thrones (sister and brother, Cersei and Jaime); Boardwalk Empire (mother and son, Gillian and Jimmy); Dexter (adopted sister and brother, Deb and Dexter); Bored to Death (half-sister and brother, Jonathan and Rose); Bates Motel (mother and son, Norma and Norman); and Top of the Lake (half-sister and brother, Robin and Johnno, though was only a scare)—not to mention, Brothers and Sisters, Supernatural, Nip/Tuck, Lost, Veronica Mars, Californication, Six Feet Under and the upcoming mini-series The Spoils of Babylon, which stars Toby Maguire and Kristen Wiig as romantically involved adopted siblings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: incest; perversion; sexuality; sick
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To: US Navy Vet; VanDeKoik

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41 posted on 01/17/2014 2:03:16 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: Tax-chick

I read it. The incest was just one facet in the whole novel. Mainly it’s about a insane mother who would do any to board up her children in a attic.


42 posted on 01/17/2014 2:08:17 PM PST by windcliff
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To: SoFloFreeper

Im waiting for the gay polygamist incest remake of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” as “Seven Brothers Do Each Other”


43 posted on 01/17/2014 2:19:43 PM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: TexasCajun

Im not sure him sticking the finger up his own a— constitutes incest


44 posted on 01/17/2014 2:22:19 PM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What’s interesting is the elitist liberals then make fun of some states’ residents by stating their family trees don’t have any branches. Or that there are thousands of people and three last names. They push it and mock it at the same time.


45 posted on 01/17/2014 2:29:28 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Flowers in the attic is the first set of books I ALMOST read until I wanted to tear my hair out

The first book was kinda good- but the author kept going and going into such a ridiculous story line I finally just tossed the last one I tried to read into the garbage halfway through.

I do know people who read all of them and thought it was great literature.


46 posted on 01/17/2014 2:33:27 PM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Found it!

LOL; just kidding.

47 posted on 01/17/2014 2:41:21 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: carriage_hill

Ill keep my eyes peeled for that one....


48 posted on 01/17/2014 2:45:34 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m not sure you’re exactly my generation ...


49 posted on 01/17/2014 3:20:45 PM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m from the Jurassic...


50 posted on 01/17/2014 3:23:36 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: windcliff

‘Cause that happens all the time!


51 posted on 01/17/2014 3:25:18 PM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

My sons’ favorite era!


52 posted on 01/17/2014 3:25:56 PM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: NorthMountain

LOL!


53 posted on 01/17/2014 3:28:07 PM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Not surprising fare for Estrogen TV.


54 posted on 01/17/2014 3:30:12 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: momtothree

Similarly, I remember seeing Vincent Price’s “Tomb of Ligeia” as a pre-teen kid and shrugging off the ending as “?”

When I re-watched it years later, and realized the necrophilia theme implied, it totally freaked me out.


55 posted on 01/17/2014 3:31:50 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: SoFloFreeper

56 posted on 01/17/2014 5:33:22 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

She also kissed him for good luck here...

That's 3 smooches I count for Luke and Leia.

57 posted on 01/17/2014 5:41:27 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I had no idea Flowers in the Attic existed until a few years ago. It's really about child abuse; incest is involved, but the circumstances are far from ordinary and it is not presented as normal or positive.

Some of Anne Rice's books so disgusted me that I no longer read anything she writes, but Flowers did not strike me that way.
58 posted on 01/17/2014 10:21:35 PM PST by Nepeta
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