Thursday, June 7, 2007

Hounddog

Twelve year old actress Dakota Fanning recently filmed an independent movie called Hounddog last July. In this movie, which was set in the 1950's, there is a scene were Dakota Fanning who plays a nine year old, takes off her clothes and dances for a man after being lured by her best friend in order to get tickets to an Elvis concert. In the movie the man then rapes Dakota's character. I am sooooooooooo disgusted by this. Now this isn't just like you know the character was raped, there was an actual rape scene filmed. The director of the movie insists that much care would be taken to pportray this rape in a delicate manner. Others on the set said they had to leave the set because the scene was way too graphic. They also said that Dakota's mother Joy sat and watched as her daughter pretended to be raped. There were also many other scenes in the script that were unbelievably disturbing, some filmed some not. Some of these scenes include her father and a nine year old boy. I don't care if there is no nudity in this movie, this is child pornography. I am so disturbed. It's so sad that a mother would put her child through all of that in order to what make some money? Joy and Dakota's agent thought that the movie would land her an Oscar nomination. I'm not sure what kind of sick world we live in. I know it's bad, but like she would ever get an Oscar nomination for this. If anything, this could destroy her career. Dakota was seen wearing only her underpants in several scenes while filming. There were also scene where animals were killed, which apparently wasn't fake. The movie production shut down after potential investors were turned off by the shocking material and did not want to be involved with the movie, which had a budget of under $5 million. I don't know what has happened since then, but hopefully it will stay that way.

2 comments:

MzQbit said...

oh - I agree with you, this is disgusting. Who cares about an Oscar nod, this could have very serious psychological damage on Dakota - I mean, I'm sure she had to get into a pretty scary headspace for that - ugh - how could you be the actor in that role?

Traycee06 said...

OMG, this is absolutely disturbing. I heard about this movie before, but haven't heard much about it lately. If what you are saying is true, I think charges should be brought up for everyone involved...including her mother. I'm at a loss for words. Any mother that I know wouldn't dare put their child in that type of situation...money or not. UGH!!!