Yeah, why spend time and energy fining real criminals when we can imprison someone's mom. Shouldn't the Police be busy finding real child molestors. And not like this poor boy either, http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=Wilson

I hate people.

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What I find truly disturbing is that the yoyos protesting this movie, without even bothering to actually see what it is they're protesting, apparently have no problem with young actors potraying children who suffer through such atrocities as violence, poverty, neglect, murder etc etc. For some reason they prefer focusing on anything related to sex, which of course is a dirty subject no one should ever discuss. For example, they have no problem with Ralph Fiennes senselessly murdering young Jewish children in a concentration camp in Schindler's List, but tear their hair out at the thought that Dakota Fanning would dare to portray a young girl being raped. No, that just won't do.

As people begin to actually see this movie, those who chose to condemn the makers of Hounddog before seeing it for themselves and getting all the facts straight are being shown for the idiots they truly are, many continuing to live in denial of the facts.

Sean Hannity is perhaps the best example, as last Monday he interviewed someone who saw the movie at its premiere at Sundance. I forget the lady's name, but I believe she was introduced as a conservative District Attorney and a child advocate for 30 years, so Hannity was a bit surprised when she revealed that all the negative claims about Dakota's infamous rape scene simply aren't true. According to her, all we see is Dakota from her shoulders on up and the guy's arm. There is no touching, and the rape is actually achieved through editing tricks, and not on the set as some have claimed. She explained that it occurs more in the viewer's mind than in the movie.

But Hannity was not satisfied, claiming that what she saw was a "sanitized" version, and that he wanted to see everything that was left on the cutting room floor. Um, right, Sean. You haven't seen the movie, you weren't involved in the editing process, you weren't involved in the production whatsoever, yet you somehow know what "really" went on. What a jackass.

But probably the most disturbing evidence of these people's dangerous mindset is what Catholic League president Bill Donohue, who is pushing for a federal investigation of the film to see if child pornography laws were being violated during shooting, said on CNN last Monday. He said that if this was not Dakota, but some unknown 12-year old actress who was involved in a rape scene, he wouldn't even bother with it. Unbelievable.

Obviously, this is all about exploiting Dakota's popularity and success to push their agenda, and has nothing whatsoever to do with a 12-year old being raped onscreen.


Finally, as reported by the Associated Press: Dakota herself sums it all up for us.

"It's not really happening," Fanning said of the rape. "It's a movie, and it's called acting."

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People need to get a grip! There's nothing - absolutely nothing - explicit about the scene. We're not talking Jodie Foster on a pool table or Monica Bellucci getting roto-rootered in a tunnel.

The sequences involve the little robot actress/child-thing yelling no. you see a guy undo his fly. They weren't even filmed at the same time!

For god's sake, the girl was with the director, shot her sequences and then an editor put it together to IMPLY a rape occurred. There's no flesh, no cgi phallus, no undulating bodies. It's all implied.

Really, you must make a logical leap that the girl was raped. And FWIW, Bastard out of Carolina had a rape scene that Jena Malone shot when she was only 10. And that was disturbingly graphic.

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By that token, we should arrest anyone who shoots anyone on screen since they are committing a crime.

Geez people come on. To quote the master thespian "ACTING!"

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That petition is the same one I saw back in july

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I say more "serious and thought-provoking" implied sex or rape scenes with pre-teens. And why not, she agreed to do it, she's a consenting adult, and her Mom said it was OK. Plus, it's been done before, so it's fine.

I personally don't care what she did. I just think it's ridiculous, if this were anywhere but a movie set these folks would be locked up and she'd be in a foster home. Somehow in Hollywood a kid is an adult, and watching Dakota Fanning's panties drop make "everyone learn something in the process." I've known 14-year olds that were "down with the whole thing" but that wouldn't have kept me out of jail for making a video of her dancing in her underwear in my living room, even if her Dad didn't care she was there.

Oh, art, how you transcend all.

And by the way, it's not just this scene, it is systemic. Full-on rapists and sex offenders are embraced in Hollywood as nowhere else. Roman Polanski's sex with a 13 year-old girl, Victor Salva's oral sex with a 12-year old boy, and neither is exactly blackballed, but most people would protest if either of them were moving anywhere near them.

Anyway, just funny what people will defend because it's 'art'.

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Take me out back and shoot me in the head. It's not global warming that will kill us, it's the massive amount of total idiots. At some point the stupidity level will grow to such a level that we will suffer a sudden massive existence failure. Then the universe will breathe a sigh of relief.

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Book Fan - there's nothing REMOTELY illegal about filming a 12 year old saying no. Nothing. Everything is implied - the rape is accomplished through editing and relying upon viewer intelligence. You fill in the blanks of the scene.

If they showed her bare legs and a guy humping her, that'd be illegal and cause for concern.

What's you're rebelling against is an implication of something foul. That's just silly.

Furthmore, nobody said boo to Angelica Houston's beating and rape scenes for Bastard Out of Carolina. Was it because Jena Malone was a homley little girl with black hair and not a fair-haired willowy blonde?

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It's a movie. Dakota Fanning is acting.

Feeding the flames will keep the media fire burning ensuring the movie "HoundDog" will sell as well as "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley which sold many millions of copies.
Perhaps a percentage of the huge profits to be made from the box office and DVD sales of the movie should go to help protect children in the care of the social services?
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It's truly sad that some people simply don't want the topic of rape to be discussed. It doesn't matter if it happens to little girls all the time, just don't bother them with the problem when they go out to the movies.

btw Children's Rights Organization First Star supports the movie:

http://digital50.com/news/items/BW/2001/07/14/20070129006014/childrens-rights-organization-first-star-speaks-out-in-defense-of-dakota-fanning.html

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they should be put in jail..... oh, wait, the jails are full of catholic priests so there may not be room! of course, i think most of those priests just got re-assigned to other congregations so maybe there is room=)

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There is also a petition to support the the movie:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/743411173

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You know the French are LAUGHING at all of this.

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It's a movie people, and it's not real! it's called acting, a-c-t-i-n-g acting. If you want to get mad and all up in arms, then get mad at the real sick people in the world who actually rape children and women. As for all those petitions out there, I don't see any against the right for idiots to have an opinion, if there were, I'd certainly sign it.

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This is all BULL****, you hear of all these people complaining about this movie and them saying the scene is "TOO EXPLICIT" and they haven't even ever seen the movie. They hear 12-year-old and rape in the same sentence and jump to conclusions, picturing in their own minds the brutal and graphic defloweration of said 12 year old and put it thier mind that this is the scene in the movie. America is too hyper-sexualized for it own good if it want to view any type of sexual conduct, even between consenting adults as a taboo event.

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The bottom line I think is that most of us don't care to see a child in a rape scene real or implied. I think even filming something like that irregardless of how it was conceived or setup would be pyschologically damaging to a child. For those of you that are all hot to watch it, well I wouldn't be surpised to see some repeat faces going into the theatre known previously from "To Catch a Predator" on Dateline.

Just because something was accepted in the past doesn't mean we have to accept it in the present. Also, for this film the internet provides a previously unknown means of protest and getting the word out where the earlier releases with children being shown in potentially illegal scenes were not widely announced to the public before they were even released.

If the French are laughing at us, more power to them. I laugh at the French most days so they have a bit more to go before we're even.

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