I have not yet seen 'Black Swan', or else this would be perfect for my newsflash, but I was reading articles about the SAG awards and speeches when I ran across an interesting article. The article was about Natalie Portman's acceptance speech for her prominent role in the film and how she had to be bleeped out by TNT for discussing her "mature" actions. There was a segment of the speech attached and then comments below. This one comment seems especially intriguing as my first thought was how perfectly the context could be incorporated into our class discussions:
"These days in order to win any awards in the movie or tv industry, a girl has to do nudity and at least one sex scene. The raunchier the better, extra points for lesbianism. The younger the better.
Same goes for males who do gay love scenes. It's not good acting. It's not good writing. It's porn. But these days, that's Hollywood."
SOURCE: http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/the-prim-natalie-portman-gets-bleeped-during-her-sag-acceptance-speech--2211
Just some food for thought!
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