No, I'm not going to produce a research paper for you or otherwise be bothered with your yammering. I will cite a couple of obvious examples from among the central products of Hollywood, movies: The Day of the Jackal (1973) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Paper Moon (1973) Taxi Driver (1976) The Professional (1994) Take them as you like because I'm not particularly interested in trying to convince you of anything. I thought of those in about 90 seconds. Those are the oldest examples I could think of in that time span. To be honest I have not seen Brokeback Mountain but saw a review or something that discussed its content. The rest I've seen. Hollywood has promoted homosexuality and pedophilia for decades and is actively promoting them today.
I thought you were just griefing him. I don't recall any of those movies promoting either pedo or homo stuff. I haven't seen Brokeback either, so can't say for that one, but The Professional... I liked that movie, when did it promote either??
Do you know the difference between portraying something and promoting something? Maybe you're dyslexic. I won't argue the homosexual stuff, even though I hardly think the depiction of homosexuality in Day of the Jackal or Midnight Cowboy was a promotion of it. Should Hollywood not depict something simply because it is or was largely regarded as a negative? You'd have to get rid of every movie with murder, assault, thievery, fraud or any other victimization or crime. Is the mere depiction of something a "promotion" of it? You don't make sense. Like you, I have never seen Brokeback Mountain and I never will see it. I don't even like most heterosexual romance movies, can't imagine why I'd sit through a gay one. So yeah, that may be one Hollywood movie promoting homosexuality, but I have no direct evidence to that. As far as pedophilia, you've struck out. Nowhere is pedophilia positively portrayed (i.e., promoted) in the movies you named. Again, the mere depiction of something in a story is not the same as advocating it, or are you simple minded enough to believe Hollywood is promoting murder every time somebody gets killed onscreen?
If you've seen the movie but cannot make the connection I can't really be more explicit in good taste. No offense intended but it is either clear to you or it isn't. I would say that using a child in any scene that attempts to setup an inappropriate sexual tension between that child and an adult is a soft promotion of pedophilia, an attempt to gradually remove the discomfort we experience culturally towards such material. I'm not talking about some overt display of child sexual abuse but rather my perception of a persistent force that seeks to break down barriers in order to increase acceptance. Its been going on for years. I liked the movie too. Oldman is great.
I am dyslexic. Just fyi it is about a few individual characters not whole words or phrases. My difficulty was with "S" or "5" (lol) and also I couldn't discern "b" from "d" in the absence of sufficient context. I overcame it as a kid and read approximately 1400 words per minute in the 7th grade with high comprehension, about the same speed as Evelyn Wood. I read whole sentences at a time and my brain fills in the ambiguous characters or so they tell me. To me promotion means a persistent and organized effort to reduce our cultural inhibitions towards both topics by omitting any negativity that are associated with those behaviors in real-life. Murder is actually a pretty good example. If murders are depicted as casual acts with no consequences and no recognition of destructive secondary effects (devasted family, orphaned children etc) eventually the cultural barriers that inhibit the occurrence of murder are lowered. That is exactly what experts are saying has happened. Now video games are contributing. They say that kids are far less inhibited from committing murder now than 50 years ago. I think post-war Hollywood did that gradually and deliberately. It was promotion. The only difference from homosexuality and pedophilia is that with murder they wanted to sell more tickets and with homosexuality they want to actually increase acceptance of the lifestyle.
Add Pretty Baby (1978) and The Blue Lagoon (1980). Pretty Baby was the posterchild of pedophilia at the time. Heck even in the "swingin seventies" people were aghast at having Brooke Shields appear nude as a 10 year old. It really is tedious arguing with these idiots who continue to defend the indefensible.
You are missing the mother of them all...Lolita!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119558/ And to top it off, the actress in the movie is only 15 years old and Jeremy Irons is 50 plus.
Couldn't agree more. Hollywood has long been the source for all types of social/cultural "modification". I think it's even become something of a running joke that each actor that want's a good shot at being nominated for an Oscar OR for gaining real acceptance amongst the "gay mafia" has to do a "fag flick". I saw an interview a few weeks back with Mickey Rourke and he's going to do some film about a gay rugby player and he was kidding around about Sean Penn's role in Milk, saying that Sean was the most homophobic guy he knew. Really, all the top actors seem to be obligated to "pay their dues" celebrating gay culture.
And let's not forget the very controversial film "Kids". This film is very graphic. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/