Yeah, the producers and GRRM have been gushing that they found the needle in the haystack with her. They auditioned hundreds of kids in person and probably had to screen thousands of recorded auditions. It doesn’t hurt that the casting director is Nina Gold. She’s the Queen Bee of British casting, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard her name dropped multiple times by Oscar winning directors in their acceptance speeches over the years, including this year’s winner, The King’s Speech.
Someone better tell the people who made this movie that they’re all about to be arrested, then. Poor Dakota. She won’t do well in prison.[/QUOTE]
From the wikipedia article:
Though the scene only showed Fanning’s face and her character’s reaction to the trauma of the act,[2][3] it became known as the “Dakota Fanning rape movie” at the Sundance Film Festival.
They didn’t show the actual act.
Tyjenks
1623
My wording was not good anyway. I had not read what her age was supposed to be so by “young girl”, I was attempting to cover a range of ages. Being an old guy, 19 would have still qualified as young and some would say the sex scene, if considered a rape, was worse than a cutaway of killing an animal no matter what the age. Maybe a goofy thread comparing the two can be started in EE.
They changed it for the show. Ned Stark (I think) even says during the hunt for Arya “I’d best get back to the Inn” when it’s revealed that she’s been found by the Lannisters.
Was it just me, or when Doreah was telling Dany about the courtesan who could “finish a man with only her eyes” did anyone else have a Mortal Kombat flashback?
Here is the US legal code reference:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/718/usc_sec_18_00002256----000-.html
…such visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct…
the term “indistinguishable” used with respect to a depiction, means virtually indistinguishable, in that the depiction is such that an ordinary person viewing the depiction would conclude that the depiction is of an actual minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
I was just curious about what you were saying in your original statement, which appeared to be a much broader prohibition than the one in the actual law. So in that same vein, I’m assuming “it’s not and it can’t be” was a reference to her age, which makes more sense than what I thought it meant initially.
All I was saying is that if you are going to show sex stuff like they are with her, you can’t say she is younger than 18. If you do an an ordinary person believes she is actually 16, then that is considered child pornography.
You can certainly do things just short of showing it, but not what they have done on the show.
Well crud, the next time I play Mortal Kombat and it says “FINISH HIM!” it will mean something completely different.
Athryn
1629
Well the Borgias are certainly in trouble, then!
I also enjoyed the scene added with Ned speaking with Jon about his mother. That’s setting up a little heartache. And while they managed to get Robert going on about Wylla in there, it’s too bad they couldn’t figure out how to fit in Lady Ashara Dane. Though I’m not sure how they’d do that here, since all of that part took place in Catelin’s thoughts in the book.
Fair enough. How about this one? Or this show?
I believe the law was clarified recently with the virtual porn thing where the child porn thing had previously only existed under the general (and difficult to enforce) obscenity rubric. That is, with respect to Kids. No idea on the other thing, since I’ve never seen it.
Honest question here, then. Does that mean they decided Kids was okay? Or does that mean it would now be illegal to make a movie like Kids? Kids 2, to address all those burning questions Kids left unanswered.
(I know we’re going off track here, but I find it interesting that the king of HBO could be arrested if someone on the show actually said that Dany was 16. And since last night’s episode had Catelin specify that Robb was 17, further extrapolation on the timeline could certainly yield more definite numbers for any censors willing to do the math.)
Edit: To be on subject with this post, I’ll add that I kind of wonder if they’re planning on doing something with the scene involving Cersei telling the story of her firstborn. I honestly hope they’re not saying that the kid managed to break free of her womb and she decided to kill it. Cersei is loathesome, but that’s an extra step. It makes me think that maybe she was willing to have a go at it, but the child died naturally and that really made her decide not to bother with Robert any more after that. Admittedly, this would stand at odds with something readers don’t even find out until the fourth book as to why Cersei hates Robert.
Mordrak
1634
They should have cut together all the different slaps, one right after another. Maybe it looks weird (perhaps because of changes to the Hound in the background), but in my mind it’d be funnier.
Edit: And I have to say, I wasn’t sold on who they cast as Joffery, but he really nailed it this episode imo. The guy they cast as the Hound is a bit too expressive. I figured he’d have a drier wit.
roBurky
1635
Someone posted this one on another forum.
It does make me giggle.
I could watch that all damn day.
Blips
1637
I hate that kids face. Something about it creeps me out.
Mordrak
1638
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Very funny. :) A great addition to the internet’s animated gif arsenal for forum smackdowns.
There’s this one I saw at GAF
bluemax
1640
I felt the same way reading her chapters. They were kind of meh until she starts to accept the Dothraki and embrace her new life and push away from her asshole brother. Then she became more interesting. Hopefully the show does the same.
