Brittany Snow poses with Matthew Broderick on the red carpet for a screening of Finding Amanda in NYC.
Speaking of Brittany Snow, remember that clip I posted awhile back of Brittany Snow beating some guy in the balls from an indie flick called On the Doll? Well the director sent me another clip. This one’s of Brittany cutting off her teacher’s nuts. I have no idea what this film is about, but the teasers sure are fun.
And I know a lot of you were offended by the first clip, and I know some of you wanted me to take it down (although plenty of you loved it). This is fiction, you guys. No actual humans or animals were harmed in the making of this film. Of course none of this behavior is appropriate in real life, which is why it’s important that artists have an outlet to channel it through fiction. I’m proud to support that. If it were a man beating a woman, would I run the clip? No. Not because I think it’s wrong for a movie to show a man beating a woman, but because the world is chock-full of movies that show men beating women. The world is not chock-full of movies that graphically depict women taking their revenge in creative ways.
But if you’re one of the people who was way offended by the first clip, I would discourage against watching this one.
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Thank god.
If the video was as Beet describes I wonder how many women would be okay with a “fictional” movie showing a man hacking off a woman’s breasts or cutting out her ovaries.
Something tells me they wouldn’t watch it and say “cool”.
He’s looking at her shoes.
Beet, have you watched “Hard Candy”? It seems up your alley.
Everyone else: There are movies on top of movies on top of movies that show women being beaten, raped, and mutilated. There are, like, two movies now that “show” a woman cutting a man’s funbags off. Let it go. Plus, it’s kind of awesome. ADMIT IT.
Movies showing violence against anyone puts it out there in the collective consciousness and in doing so, opens the path for more violence to happen. We deplore abuse to dogs on the big screen, does that mean we should see an equal amount of abuse of cats? That way of thinking is just not sound.
The first clip was really dangerous. And no, Mercy, there is not one single thing that is awesome or interesting or gratifying in watching the abuse of anyone or anything.
And Beet, I love your guts, but in some very real way….there is no such thing as ‘fiction’. It matters what we see, it matters what we laugh about, it matters what we promote….
I know I am ranting a bit here, but I just feel very strongly about this issue and the pain of that first clip has stayed with me.
You know, this whole attitude of “it’s okay to show violence to one group but not another” is more than slightly whacked. It’s bad, period. And if just one copycat does this in real life because they saw a clip out there, that’s one too many.
I agree with Beet in that it’s important for people to have an uncensored forum in which to explore challenging issues. Of course it’s offensive. And no don’t blame movies (or TV or video games) for putting violence in the “collective consciousness.” There’s more than enough already there (e.g. the U.S. has been at war for over 5 years!)
You wussies had a warning. Don’t look if you can’t take it effen communists.
What is he looking at. Also “just saying” needs to shut his friggin mouth. That is so wrng what they did and peope think it is funny?