Posted on 05/25/2006 5:06:29 AM PDT by peyton randolph
Directors at the Cannes film festival this year say they are using radical images of sex to challenge mainstream pornography and its widespread availability on the Internet.
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He said that the United States had a puritanical view of sex which turned it into an issue in young people's minds. In one particularly provocative scene in his film, three gay men engage in a sex session while singing "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
Why do they always have to have some pretentious "intellectual" statement about their stupid perversions?
Cause you ain't gonna get any respect hocking porn to the masses...
These are the folks Hollywood pays attention to. Not the American public. The idiots in Hollywood think these people are intellectual superiors. Funny thing is that to Hollywood they probably are.
Yes. Farm animals are next.
It's what comes after farm animals that worries me. Perhaps the torture of children for purposes of sexual gratification will be seen as Art in few decades.
That is arguable a step above this.
That’s actually pretty funny. On an intellecutal level, it even highlights the true motives of the gay movenment. I'd see that movie and recomend it to friends!
Wonder if they’d see the humor if they were wearing masks of Michel Moore, Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan while doing that.
Directors at the Cannes film festival this year say they are using radical images of sex to challenge mainstream pornography and its widespread availability on the Internet.
Which may be like fighing Socialism by being a Communist, but still....
These folks are obviously way more enlightened than I am. /sarc
"These are the folks Hollywood pays attention to. Not the American public. The idiots in Hollywood think these people are intellectual superiors. Funny thing is that to Hollywood they probably are."
A mangy, three legged dog that keeps falling over when it tries to take a leak becasue it forgets it is missing a leg, is smarter than all of Hollywood!
It's their way of rationalizing their immorality. But I also think that, in their secular religion, offending religious people constitutes a form of martyrdom.
Wow! Time warp. I remember this stuff from the fifties.
Anybody actually read the first paragraph in the article, let alone the rest of it?
Directors at the Cannes film festival this year say they are using radical images of sex to challenge mainstream pornography and its widespread availability on the Internet.
Which may be like fighing Socialism by being a Communist, but still....
Good point... Although that would be more akin to fighting Communism (the big fire) with socialism (a smaller controlled fire). That's nit-picking, though.
On the other other hand, I don't have a problem with Internet porn, so I think the film-makers are being silly, anyway.
It seems like every generation thinks they invented sex and every individual thinks that anyone who doesn't do it their way is a pervert, a puritan, or both.
I don't think they care about its effect on culture so much as its effect on their bottom line. It's hard to make money charging R rated titilation in public when the comsumer can get X rated titlation free at home.
Your cynicism is well-warranted. However, most independent filmakers (including the ones mentioned in the article) operate on a shoe-string budget and they actually do care about much more then maximizing the bottom line, unless they get noticed and decide to sell out to Hollywood and sign up to produce mainstream trash.
Most independents are trying to make money, how much money they're trying to make is less, but in the end they generally want the venture to at least pay for itself and hopefully keep them in home and food long enough to finish the next project. It's not cynicism, it's reality, people have bills to pay, art for arts sake is fun to talk about and a nice ideal, but the minute said artist is hungry and there's no food in the fridge and no money in his wallet the reality of art as a job sets in.
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