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avalondeb
Registered User
(2/3/06 1:27 pm)
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When is a modern re-telling going too far?
This April a movie called "Hard Candy" will have a limited release in the USA. If you look at the poster
www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/
it is obvious that the idea for the movie is taken from Little Red Riding Hood. But all early reviews of the movie talk about ultra-violence, even involving torture, both psychological and physical.
There have been some amazing movies retooling fairytales (The Bloody Chamber, etc.), and while I understand that the basic themes behind many fairy tales are very violent, but at what point does it become gratuitous and unnecessary violence?
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(2/3/06 5:12 pm)
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Re: misc
I don't know about "going too far." There are certainly revisions that I don't like or enjoy, and revisions that I think are doing nothing interesting, but that rarely has to do with the amount of sex and/or violence in the piece. I liked <i>Freeway</i>, for example.
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princessterribel
Registered User
(2/3/06 5:47 pm)
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I think the main issue today is that things just don't scare us anymore. We are exposed to so many horrors on a daily basis so a film would really have to twist the subject and challange taboos to have much of an effect. I have not seen the film although it seems to have something to do with the disturbing subject of paedophilia, if it takes that to sell films I wonder what's next.
I do not know if any of you are aware of the fantasy art site 'Elfwood'. It is a source for artists and writers, young and old, to display their work (me included). However, if you do a search for something like 'Alice in wonderland' on the site you usually end up with some rather disturbing images and cleverly twisted versions of the story.
I think that as times change our notions of acceptable and unacceptable changes.
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