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Friday, August 21, 2009 at 2:33PM Portman, Kunis Get Freaky in 'Black Swan'
We'll see how it plays out on film, but at least on paper, there's a whole new reason for fanboys to love ballet. In the screenplay review for Black Swan, the new Darren Aronofsky film about a ballerina's struggle with a rival that may or may not exist, Script Shadow's Carson Reeves reveals that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis will have sex.
Reader Comments (26)
This is pathetic. I grow weary of lowest common denominator Idiocracy crap.
We should just openly admit pedophile worship. I mean come on, both these women are famous first and foremost for looking like children while being legally bedable. I mean come on, the uncut version of Leon could have easily turned into Lolita.
We are a nation of closet serial killers and pedophiles. Recent cases in point, Jennifer's body and Sorority Row, and look at the popularity of Hostel and Saw. Then there are movies like Hard Candy which is clearly torture porn closeted pedophile projection guilt.
We had a countdown to the olsen twins being legal, we have Hanna Montana doing nudes and pole dancing. We have mega adult hot Megan fox playing a highschool girl...three times.
Now if we can just get a film were bisexual teenagers played by barely legal super models torture nazi aliens in-between steamy cosplay erololi sex scenes, it'd be the next gone with the wind.
Crap like this doesn't deserve existence, much less coverage.
I feel bad for the actual film makers, the people that are actually interested in the art, this coupling is going to ruin the movie, it will utterly dominate for attention. funny how when two straight girls make out at a bar its clearly obnoxious but when its movie stars its suddenly art.
The whole county needs to go rub one out and grow up.
Lighten up.
The argument that we're a society off the rails because of tendencies in our popular culture is inconsistent with Jack the Ripper, the Bible, Caligula, the Holocaust, and any host of historical examples. Guess what: People have done crazy shit as long as there have been people. The logic is also inconsitent with literature of the past 2,000 years or more, counting Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, and the Kama Sutra, among others.
Natalie Portman, I would argue, is famous because as a child she displayed more maturity and depth than her age suggested. I'm sure there was some of that pedophilia instinct; it's not she suddenly developed those genetics once she turned 18. Now, I would say, she's widely regarded for her intelligence and acting ability, not because you think she looks like a teenager. Should she have waited until she graduated college to go into acting?
What kind of line are you trying to draw? Oh wait, that's right, it's the "Crap like this doesn't deserve existence" line that you just made up. How far does that extend, anyway? Megan Fox can't play a high school girl because she's 21 at the time of Transformers and preternaturally attractive? Only the doughy can play anyone around the age of 18? So Michael J. Fox shouldn't have played Alex Keaton on Family Ties? Or is he not hot enough to make the cut?
Natalie Portman's almost 30. She can do a lesbian scene if she wants to. Nobody's holding a gun to her head, and nobody's calling it art. It's titillation and there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
Colin, when you first posted this I joked that the characters should resolve their differences in a kiddie pool full of KY Jelly. I was joking, but looks like I may get my wish.
@Colin
"Guess what: People have done crazy shit as long as there have been people. "
So thats makes it ok to continue? Jack the ripper you say?
"Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that what he did was human nature" -A.A. Milne
"Natalie Portman, I would argue, is famous because as a child she displayed more maturity and depth than her age suggested. "
Yea and that maturity came across as her singing happy birthday like Monroe, like a virgin in lingerie, and trying to seduce a 40 year old hit man. Wake up man.
"Now, I would say, she's widely regarded for her intelligence and acting ability, not because you think she looks like a teenager."
Yea, Now. She got the foot in the door by being jail bait in a movie focused on an anti-hero.
"Should she have waited until she graduated college to go into acting?"
Frankly, yes. Child stars tend to be damaged goods, I don't think we should sacrifice children on the alter of our entertainment, but that would make a lot of movies impossible so I get thats its unrealistic.
And if you mean from a business perspective, of course not, but weather something is good business and ethical are different sometimes mutually exclusive points.
"What kind of line are you trying to draw?"
One the separates us from completely full of shit land. There is a reason our culture gives birth to serial killers and pedophiles by the dozen, and its not so simple as monkey see monkey do, its about a pervasive attitude that certain things are ok, things outside of the movies themselves, things like building a movie around a sex scene, telling eachother its art when what we really want is Damien's ky jelly fight.
I say we start being honest. I don't care that we're getting a film with them diving on eachother what I care about is the fact that we're pretending its not about that. Like you are. We are a whole society still acting like we get playboy for the articles.
"Megan Fox can't play a high school girl because she's 21 at the time of Transformers and preternaturally attractive?"
No she shouldn't, the reason they found a barely legal was so when they poured on the stripper they wouldn't get shit from parents groups when it came time to sell the toys. Pick one, if you want a highschool girl, fine hire one, if you want a stripper, fine, hire one. But what we really want as a society is to screw a cute school girl that can't even buy booze. We should own up, or try to fix it if we feel it needs fixing.
This white elephant crap has got to go.
"So Michael J. Fox shouldn't have played Alex Keaton on Family Ties?"
For one he still looks like he's 25, and he was playing his role completely, he looked like a kid and he was playing a kid. Megan on the other hand was a sex object and nothing else, she looked like a stripper and was playing a kid.
Did you know that can get you federal time as a sex offender if you do it in porn? It doesn't matter if the players are 60, or even if it's a cartoon. If you simulate underage anything, you're busted. But Michael Bay can do it because he's saying "oh it's not about jeans that should have been tattooed on, it's not about getting her to writhe on the hood of a car, it's just her character, its just art. Please.
Besides we both know its radically diffrent for men and boys.
"Natalie Portman's almost 30. She can do a lesbian scene if she wants to."
And thats fine, you fail to understand I'm not being a prude I'm being honest. It's the bullshit I can't stand. the guy is making a movie as an excuse to get two hotties to heavy pet. And we'll all buy a ticket proudly because we can all pretend its not about getting wood.
"Nobody's holding a gun to her head",
No but they'll paying her a shitload.
"and nobody's calling it art. "
Are you shitting me? it's a movie about BALLET! Nuff said.
"It's titillation and there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that."
Yes, there is, when it's sold as something it's not.
By your logic Saving Ryan's Privates is a WW2 movie.
Dammit i meant whether not weather.
as far as all of this goes... i have to say that i totally agree with brandon... you took the words right outta my mouth.
HEY BRANDON M SERGENT
WHAT FUCKING PLANET ARE YOU ON BUDDY
Your way off base with your whole diatribe, analysis, and bolshit you spewed all over this posting...
I mean are you that ignorant and innocent to such things occurring like this in Hollywood..
I mean please certain actress will play these certain roles because obviously something in the role attracts them to it... I thought I was cynnical of the world but you have taken it to a whole nother level ...Calling the people pedophiles and closeted serial killers I mean come on what are you smoking....
Your whole theory or ideology is way off base, so things like this cannot be art but it must be trash to your mind b/c it has sex or sexual images, you DONT EVEN KNOW HOW IT WILL BE FILMED LET ALONE LOOK LIKE!!!!
YOUR SAYING ONE OF THE GREATEST DIRECTORS WORKING TODAY IS MAKING A FILM JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS 2 HOT CHICKS TO HAVE SEX????
-your ridiculous and that whole statement is absurd
Oh and yeah when 2 girls do make out at a bar ITS PRETTY HOT not fucking obnoxious dude...
IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS MOVIE LOVING IT
I think there is either blatant hypocrisy or just sententiousness going on in this man's opinion. First you claim that we need to "start being honest" but you want to ignore subject like pedophilia, murder and any movies involving children because child actors have fucked up lives (guess what pal, lots of children lead fucked up lives and its important to tell these kinds of stories through film, which to me is art, not always, but sometimes). To attack this film based on the fact that two attractive (one being an amazingly intelligent and brilliant actress, the other perhaps trying to join that category) women are going to have passionate sex is absurd... guess what, lets "start being honest" there are attractive women out there who have passionate sex.
This is what I hate about American audiences ruined by American filmmaking tendencies. Yeah Michael Bay is a douche and films young women like objects but have you walked down a street lately? There are much younger girls than Megan Fox dressed much more revealing and to ignore this in a film about highschool would be a lie... at least even he had the decency to hire an older actress to play his scantily clad heroine.
I really don't get your argument at all... your claim that The Professional was almost Lolita is maybe the most ridiculous indictments of your entire argument, heaven forbid the film almost achieve a level of art close to one of the most celebrated novels (and films by Kubrick) of the last century. Expand your brain and come to terms with the reality... first sex sells so obviously they are going to use it and second sex sells for a reason, its part of this thing we call the human condition... why don't you start being honest with yourself and climb off your ridiculously high horse. Maybe read some philosophy and film theory, maybe watch a few foreign films, and discover what being honest about humanity entails.