Where were her PARENTS?
There's an article at MSNBC.com about a brouhaha over a love scene shot with a 14 year old girl for the upcoming flick, "The New World."
Colin Farrell stars as American colonist John Smith in “The New World,” and
14-year-old Q’Orianka Kilcher plays Pocahontas. The flick is said to be slavish
to period detail and the love scene between the two was “in good taste,”
according to a defender, but when studio lawyers for the film saw an early cut,
according to a report, “they nearly had a heart attack.”
“Farrell was told to get romantic and sensual but knew
there was a certain amount of kissing involved,” a source told the British mag
The People. “He played the scene brilliantly and he really put Q’Orianka at her
ease. But when the lawyers saw the finished product with Colin and Q’Orianka
rolling around on the ground kissing they just flipped out.” The lawyers were
concerned about child-pornography laws, and a tamer version of the scene was
reportedly re-shot.
This is one of those situations when I don't
know who to kick first . . . the actor, a man old enough to know
better; the director, also doubtless old enough to know better; or the
girl's parents, who DEFINITELY should have known better.
It is a constant source of dismayed
astonishment to me, how frequently people presumably think all bets are
off so long as cameras are clicking or rolling, based upon the
frightful ads and films in which children will appear. Every time
I marvel, "Where are their parents?" Did they read the script at all? Didn't they make being on the set a condition of said child's participation?
One of the most morally damaging points of
view, for both individuals and society as a whole, is that so long as
entertainment is the goal, the LORD's moral standards do not
apply. IOW, the mindset that insists "Ohforcryingoutloud,
it's just a movie!" Or a play. Or a TV show. Or a novel. Or a song.
Piffle. They apply across the board, on a 24/7 basis.
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