[SarahM72]

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies...1120-29o33.html

Can't understand how people can go along to enjoy themselves at a screening of a movie where it is a well known fact that the star had a gun held to her head to force her to make it.

ETA: And whoever thought up the title for the SMH article is an idiot.

This post has been edited by SarahM72: 23/11/2012, 09:33 AM

[countrymel]

Oh thank heaven I thought this was going to be a "Should I take my 5 year old?" question....

[Burro]

I too thought the 'actress' had given interviews revealing the abuse she endured. I wonder if the management or promoters are aware or care? I couldnt watch someone being abused and wouldnt want to profit from it. Unfortunately im sure it will be a sell out crowd.

ETA: linda Boreman quotes
"Virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're watching me being raped." In the Toronto Sun on March 20, 1981 she said that, "It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time." source - wikipedia


This post has been edited by Burro: 23/11/2012, 10:15 AM

[RatbagBob]

Fully agree with you Sarah. I don't have a problem if people want to watch consensually made porn. I do have a problem with it being somehow cool, or hip or retro or whatever to watch something like Deep Throat, knowing what we now know about the making of it.

[squeekums]

WTF!
Ewww mass group of random watching porn together.
Thats just creepy and all kinds of wrong

[RatbagBob]

squeekums lol, that's how it used to happen in the good old days

[BetteBoop]

People seem to disconnect the movie from the behind the scenes reality.

Like when those 2 kids were killed on the set of the Twilight Zone movie, or Brandon Lee's death on The Crow.

Those events would be enough to turn me off ever watching that movie, but not everyone sees it that way.

Besides, I imagine the people who consume porn aren't bothered by the exploitation of women, given the industry relies on the abuse of women and children in impoverished countries.

[SarahM72]

I too thought the 'actress' had given interviews revealing the abuse she endured. I wonder if the management or promoters are aware or care? I couldnt watch someone being abused and wouldnt want to profit from it. Unfortunately im sure it will be a sell out crowd.

ETA: linda Boreman quotes
"Virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're watching me being raped." In the Toronto Sun on March 20, 1981 she said that, "It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time." source - wikipedia

Thank you Burro for those quotes, although thank you does seem the wrong words.

I am disgusted that anyone still thinks it is okay to profit from screening this movie. And I'm also pretty disgusted that the SMH sees fit to having a headline that jokes about people watching a woman being repeatedly raped at gunpoint.

This post has been edited by SarahM72: 23/11/2012, 10:31 AM

[RatbagBob]

Oh, but it's very cool and hip to go and see it dontcha know?

[archy's mehi...]

Yup, squeekums used to be about 3 cinemas in Swanston St that showed porn exclusively and continually. Dirty old men in raincoats going in was the stereotype.

Ah, memories of Skyhooks 'Smut'

I'm still ambivalent about porn/sex work. Some women genuinely want to do it. I saw a doco several years back about an Aussie woman who knits and does embroidery between takes, and her parents have seen the movies. Soft porn, though, not hard core. Then you have the misogynist men making porn today. There's one guy finfamous for insisting on head jobs and being far too rough in everything he does. Several of the women have complained he goes too far, forcing them down until they are gagging and choking, and hurting them. Linda Lovelace - well there's a scene in Deep Throat where you can see bruises on her upper thigh from being belted up.