Re the "whore" label. I'm relatively new to all the internets celebrity communities, but I've seen that term bandied about (along with "slut" and others) quite a lot. I'm an Old, from another pre-web generation, and similar things were said about girls in my day whom everyone seemed to be jealous of. I see it today as the same thing, but on a different (and much grander) scale. From girls who are envious to boys who wouldn't have a snowball's chance in Hell with the girl in question, I believe it's a way to deal with one's frustrations and anger, and since modern starlets (unlike the high school girls of my day) are for the most part unaccessible, what better way to lash out than by name-calling
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Also? VERY interesting post you've got here, best thing I've read today. I have much more to say about it and would love to discuss "I Spit On Your Grave" with you, but time prevents me (probably fortunately, or there'd be a damn dissertation for you to read here! lol) from getting too into it at the moment.
I absolutely do not mind if you have a dissertation to post, as I'd love a lively discussion! Have you seen Rosario Dawson's 2007 film, Descent? It turns the standard rape/revenge film on its head, with the premise being, "An eye for an eye will leave us all blind." I keep wondering how a male audience would receive such a film, as it would most likely make a good majority of them uncomfortable. And we just couldn't have that, now could we? But to alienate the female audience is absolutely acceptable. I recently watched Peter Fonda's Fighting Mad, which was highly entertaining drive-in cinema; Lynn Lowry's character was the best written female role I've ever seen out of that genre. When I looked up the poster on moviegoods.com, the tagline horrified me: What They Do To His Woman Is The Most Shocking Crime Of All!Nowhere in the film was Lynn raped or humiliated, yet the film's promotion insinuates she does, and for what? To lure in more viewers? I'm not certain whether I should be bothered or amused, as whoever was lured in on that
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You know, I hadn't even HEARD of Descent (but I bet my hubby has) until now, and I like Rosario. It's probably because my tastes in movies have changed since I was part of any "target audience", but I can also wonder if the reasons you cite here are part of the reason I hadn't heard of it.
I find the rape genre to be an interesting thing. It's been my experience that when female characters are raped, they rarely get to exact revenge themselves if indeed there is any revenge involved; usually there's some avenging male character who "rights the wrong", as it were. Male rape is so uncommon; Deliverance and Pulp Fiction being the only two films I can think of at the moment that even have those scenes, and in Pulp Fiction it is the victim (Ving Rhames) who is allowed to take revenge. Of course, this also brings up the subject of race: Ving's character is black and he is the one who is raped; Bruce Willis's (white) character is the one who sets their escape and revenge in motion, even though they are both in the same situation at the
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So Wait Just A Minute...germanpantherSeptember 9 2008, 20:47:30 UTC
Am I to be correct in thinking that all of the films at Horrorama (excluding Alligator... oh and Incredible Melting Man... I hope you guys didn't like Jupiter...) feature rape? Or is it just Mother's Day? That's the only part I'm slightly confused about. And you're going to sit in the lobby for all of them? But that's no fun! I can understand avoiding the rape one (that's just awful) but you have to stay with me and David and Ash to we have to mock the living hell out of the rest of the movies! I can't get by on my own witty repartee! I need back-up!
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Have you seen Rosario Dawson's 2007 film, Descent? It turns the standard rape/revenge film on its head, with the premise being, "An eye for an eye will leave us all blind." I keep wondering how a male audience would receive such a film, as it would most likely make a good majority of them uncomfortable. And we just couldn't have that, now could we? But to alienate the female audience is absolutely acceptable.
I recently watched Peter Fonda's Fighting Mad, which was highly entertaining drive-in cinema; Lynn Lowry's character was the best written female role I've ever seen out of that genre. When I looked up the poster on moviegoods.com, the tagline horrified me: What They Do To His Woman Is The Most Shocking Crime Of All!Nowhere in the film was Lynn raped or humiliated, yet the film's promotion insinuates she does, and for what? To lure in more viewers? I'm not certain whether I should be bothered or amused, as whoever was lured in on that ( ... )
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I find the rape genre to be an interesting thing. It's been my experience that when female characters are raped, they rarely get to exact revenge themselves if indeed there is any revenge involved; usually there's some avenging male character who "rights the wrong", as it were. Male rape is so uncommon; Deliverance and Pulp Fiction being the only two films I can think of at the moment that even have those scenes, and in Pulp Fiction it is the victim (Ving Rhames) who is allowed to take revenge. Of course, this also brings up the subject of race: Ving's character is black and he is the one who is raped; Bruce Willis's (white) character is the one who sets their escape and revenge in motion, even though they are both in the same situation at the ( ... )
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And you're going to sit in the lobby for all of them? But that's no fun! I can understand avoiding the rape one (that's just awful) but you have to stay with me and David and Ash to we have to mock the living hell out of the rest of the movies! I can't get by on my own witty repartee! I need back-up!
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