Jaycee Dugard's Horrific Story to Get a Sleazy Adaptation

Have you even watched trailers for my films?

Warning!!! Pedophile Released
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlkz-NHbTpI

Amateur Porn Star Killer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7nckMIqs8

Isolation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s66nxIyr-Lg

I'll send you a copy of our new film, Warning!!! Pedophile Released. If you still think I'm scum then so be it. But imagine you had a dream at 5 years old to make movies and started pursuing the hell out of it, and then 24 years later still pursuing it and realizing you can’t turn back now because you don't know anything else but this still isn't even paying for my coffee in the morning let alone anything real important. It's freakin' hard and it sucks and sometimes you just can't push on anymore.

So, you realize that suddenly if you start changing your titles and adding a sex scene in your film every body turns their heads. So, you decide, why not come up with some exploitative titles, since that's apparently what the world wants (unless you can get Brad Pitt in your film) and then have a hidden message in your film, or in the case of Amateur Porn Star Killer, the second people put the DVD in they realize, "wow, this is way more serious than I thought it would be". You make a couple more of those and then you try to tell the story of when you were 5 years old and you were in that terrible car accident where you had to explain to your blind mother that her head was ripped open and her own mother was hanging from the windshield. You go to the hospital and then a few weeks later draw pictures of it. Suddenly people think you're being molested based on these pictures and you get put in foster homes for 2 years and your 1 year old brother, your only sibling, lives in a foster home the rest of his 17 childhood years and doesn't finally come to terms with it until, get this, A WEEK AGO! You're isolated in school, get beat so bad by other kids you still suffer injuries from it. I wanted to kill kids at my school if they hurt me one more time but I couldn't even accept the thought of imagining, let alone doing, harm to a human being, an animal, even an insect. That's been my life, and I could go on with worse. Not as bad as what happened to Jaycee, but I can relate. I TRIED TO GET THAT MADE INTO A MOVIE. After years I gave up, nobody responded. (This would be Romance Road Killers. I took my life and my favorite movies, and a real killer from the 50's and molded into something I thought worked).

I make some more films, a few acting parts for work that I wasn’t really proud of, but most actors go through that. I then make a meaningful film, if you were to actually watch it, Warning!!! Pedophile Released. After that I decide I want to make a movie about human trafficking, I’ve wanted to for awhile. I announce it, to no response hardly at all, of course, and start working on the idea. Then Jaycee Dugard is found, so I say, wow, I’ve never heard anything like that. If our sex slave movie could be something meaningful like that which actually has a happy ending, and really explore the mentality behind a situation like that, now that’s a really important story, let’s do something LIKE THAT. I’m sure anybody doing a movie about sex slaves, or human trafficking, and there’s been a ton lately, heard about this story and got ideas. So, I think, I can relate to isolation, I can relate to feeling kidnapped, I have a girlfriend who was abused severely, attacked and almost killed, while several months pregnant and living homeless under a bridge. Why don’t we work on this story together, bring the pain and suffering we’ve been through, and somehow make a film out of this but about a victim and her captor. It IS NOT A PORN FILM, it IS NOT ABOUT JAYCEE DUGARD, but the media gets one interview wrong and next thing you know everybody publishing one press release all over the net, talk about lazy. What qualifies for reporting nowadays? (although I will hand it to you Peter Hall, for at least taking the time to write your own story, though of course bashing me without knowing me, I still don’t get how people can do that). So, reporters should get their facts straight before they make somebody the most hated person for 40 hours (it really was 40 hours and then suddenly the death threats stopped, that’s how short attention span we have).

And get this, a major talk show wanted to interview me today but when I told them this wasn’t a movie about Jaycee, that I merely had some inspirations but it was not her story at all, and that is surely was not porn, they changed their minds. The producer even admitted they probably wouldn’t cover it if they couldn’t bash me. That’s the world we live it. That’s the media. Just thought I’d say something coming from the actual source and not a trail of bullshit.

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I've heard that the Amateur Porn Star Killer movies are actually very good. I've been meaning to see them for years now but my local rental store doesn't have any of them :(

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What just transpired above was some of the craziest shit that I have seen in some time. I'm speechless.

Anyway, it is deplorable to exploit a story such as this, regardless of the director's life experiences (as I suppose I just learned of above), and I hope that the family succeeds in halting production.

Seriously, crazy shit up there.

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This is such a delicate issue, that if a movie made about such a story seems to be about Jaycee, or if in any way seems pornographic, the family should sue.

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"Peter Hall said...

Shane, I do appreciate you coming here to defend yourself and your film. If Abducted Girl is indeed not about Jaycee Dugard, then I apologize, but every search I did only returned the same original story.

As for seeing your trailers, I indeed have. I've also seen Amateur Porn Star Killer as, and you probably don't remember, you used to email me regularly about it asking me to write about it. I never did as I found it, and the trailers for its subsequent sequels, not at all my bag. Though I will admit that I've not seen any of your other films, so if (names aside) they're of a different breed than APSK then I will try to track them down.

If you'd care to elaborate further how this apparent mix up came to be, I'd be glad to update the story, because, honestly, I do hope that Abducted Girl is not exploiting the story of Jaycee Dugard, or any other person for that matter. I'm sorry you've had a rough life, and I get that making harsh films is your own personal therapy, but unfortunately that doesn't come across in the stories I've read or the limited amount of your work that I've seen."



Understandable. While I stand behind the APSK films (at least the first 2) I know they're very easily unlikable and won't argue that other than that they were basically made out of desperation by a filmmaker who felt he had nothing left in him after years of trying to start a career, and funny enough, those films started a somewhat career (at least going from selling copies 1 at a time at swap meets to thousands at a time in major stores, though I'm still broke, so some things haven't changed).

I do believe that the Pedophile Released film though paints a much better picture of what I'm like as a filmmaker (though it was still made on literally no budget with no crew and will still easily be a love it or hate it film, it's nothing like the APSK films). If people who originally wrote the story on Abducted Girl had seen that movie, I doubt I would have become the hated man of the hour. I'll send you a copy if you'd like to watch or review it, email me where to send if interested alteregocinema@yahoo.com

As far as the Abducted Girl movie, let me get back to you on that with an actual story (or PR). Things, basically, got way out of hand with that story. I never expected more than the people who already know me to hear about it, and was only inspired after hearing Jaycee's story on what to make my film about (which was already being planned before her discovery), but in the first interview the reporter translated it as me making Jaycee's story the movie, and then next thing, a Jaycee porn movie was being made, etc. Not having a PR person and being shy and not used to being attacked by reporters you can see how everything became a bad game of telephone in which at the end of the line, people were saying Fuck You Shane Ryan.

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I believe that no matter what good intentions there are by Shane Ryan about the movie, it will still end up as Jaycee's story. And right now, as a human being, all I have for Jaycee is compassion, love and understanding. Knowing what she went through from age 11 to 29, anyone would just want to shield her from any more harm. To me, what happened to her is so delicate a matter that making a movie out of her experience is so hurtful and and so unkind. Not only will it hurt Jaycee but to all those who had gone through the same experience. Let's give Jaycee and her family a chance to heal!!!

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Shane ~ While I get that you have had a difficult life, as well as a life long dream to make movies, I think you are being a hypocrite. I agree the the media is all about sensationalism for monetary gain, but how are you any different? The first movies you made weren't successful, so you decided to add "exploitative titles" to hopefully cater to an audience that craves sensationalism. Now you've found a limited audience for these films, and for your own self interest you intend to keep making more of the same type.

Perhaps your movies have seen little success because of their subject matter, and also because your "hidden meanings" are just a little too hidden. Maybe if instead of trying another film that will undoubtedly inspire another "loveit/hate it" response with us viewers, you should try something with considerably more "love it" potential. Your films may have some personal, theraputic meaning to you, but are highly offensive and insensitive to a vast majority of people and that is why you aren't finding an audience. When you blame the perception of your work on the media, or on the misunderstanding of the audience, you are setting yourself up for more failure because you are refusing to see that your choice of subject matter and/or your approach to said subject matter is really the problem.

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At the end of the day, you can't judge shane's motivations for making this film and how exploitative it is of Jaycee until it comes out. You people seem to be crucifying this man, based on nothing more than what the media tells you.

Your calling a film you have never seen a sleazy adaptation, if it comes out watch it and then make up your own mind about it, until then just back off and let him do his job.

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