[In a review of "Brokeback Mountain"]
A "Brokeback"-type movie could easily be made, for instance, to portray a female school teacher's affair with a 14-year-old student as "a magnificent love story." And I'm not talking about the 2000 made-for-TV potboiler, "All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story," about the Seattle school teacher who seduced a sixth-grade student, went to prison for statutory rape, and later married the boy having had two children by him. I'm talking about a big-budget, big-name Hollywood masterpiece aimed at transforming America through film, just as Hitler relied on master filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to make propaganda films to manipulate the emotions of an entire nation.
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Well...he has a point. With a multi-million dollar budget, a message, and some good old fashioned heartstring pluckery, you can make anything sound good. I hear that it worked well for the theatrical version of "A Modest Proposal".
But, of course, comparing homosexuality to pedophilia, and a gay love story to a Nazi propaganda film...kinda low...
A "Brokeback"-type movie could easily be made, for instance, to portray a female school teacher's affair with a 14-year-old student as "a magnificent love story."
In my opinion, a 14-year-old should be able to consent, but for the sake of the argument, let's say not. BBM is about TWO GROWN MEN, CONSENTING. Not an adult and a child.
And I'm not talking about the 2000 made-for-TV potboiler, "All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story," about the Seattle school teacher who seduced a sixth-grade student, went to prison for statutory rape, and later married the boy having had two children by him.
Okay?
I'm talking about a big-budget, big-name Hollywood masterpiece aimed at transforming America through film, just as Hitler relied on master filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to make propaganda films to manipulate the emotions of an entire nation
You're an idiot.
Tom Carder is one of my favorite fundies. I've had some highly entertaining email exchanges with him. He's not a bad person, just completely brain washed. At least he's not into the whole rapture nonsense.
His "reviews" of South Park and Dogma are particularly funny.
Why do these fuckheads at CAP never review the movie they are reviewing? It's always "someone could make another movie like this one featuring (something I disagree with)" or "Dr. Spock recanted on his deathbed" in the middle of a fucking review of "Darkknight". Review the freaking movie or quit acting like you are!PS If you had serious film critics at CAP instead of a idiotic rightwing agenda freaks, which I seriously doubt you do, you would know about "Summer of 42" which loosely fits your criterion for a movie about an older woman, younger man. Since none of you frauds appears to know a fucking thing about movies, imdb it.
Fundie or not, he's right. Hollywood DOES shape the thoughts of a nation, and in a film, any angle can be played up to seem moral and right. Not that it's very hard to do with 2 gay people as consensual homosexuality doesn't need any justification, but I expect Hollywood could make a movie portraying a teacher-student age gap in a positive light, and it would be "controversial" and popular.
You know, you're all talking about a female teacher (presumably hawt) having an affair with her teenaged male student.
Show me a successful movie about a male teacher having an affair with a teenaged female student; then it can be truly said that Hollywood can make anything look good.
A "Brokeback"-type movie could easily be made, for instance, to portray a female school teacher's affair with a 14-year-old student as "a magnificent love story."
Yup, you could. There's lots to explore in this context and you could make a great movie out of it. Just like they could make a great, moving movie about something as dreadful as Sophie Scholl's arrest and execution (The Last Days), or the Holocaust (Schindler's List).
I watched a movie in elementary school of a kid who went to a death camp with his dad. The father managed to comfort his kid and isolate him from the horrors of the camp, explaining away the terrors as games and whatnot. Even when the Allies are approaching and the Nazis are exterminating everyone in the camp, forcing the father and son to hide, he manages to explain it away as a "hide-and-seek" game. It was a friendly, warm, good, moving film.
Did the movie convince me the Holocaust was OK? No. Would a romance movie exploring a pedophile's relationship with a student, as several books do, convince me pedophilia is OK? No.
You know, you're all talking about a female teacher (presumably hawt) having an affair with her teenaged male student.
A very good point.
I think if "Brokeback Mountain" had concerned an affair between an adult and a kid instead of two consenting adults it would have been roundly condemned. That you can't see the difference says a lot about your intelligence and morality or, rather, lack thereof.
For the last time, homosexuality =/= pedophilia!
But I do wonder what this person would have to say about "Lolita."
If only someone would make movies about the 10 Commandments, the passion of the Christ, Ben Hur, Spartacus or the rapture.
You should be stabbed with your own stupidity.
Looks like some of you shouldn't accuse fundies of being ignorant about homosexuality and pedophilia when some of you don't even know what a pedophile actually is.
Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescents, not adolescents. The word you're looking for is 'ephebophile' which is an exclusive attraction to adolescents.
Confused?
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