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Isn't it a tad ironic that Dakota Johnson is involved with "Fifty Shades..."


given the way that Alfred Hitchcock treated her grandmother, Tippi Hedren:
https://lebeauleblog.com/2013/01/05/what-the-hell-happened-to-melanie-griffith/#comment-279608

Now Dakota’s grandmother has gone all out, especially in her autobiography released back in November, about how Hitchcock had her under contract at Universal and used his power to control her and grow his freaky obsession on her. He proceeded to rape and molest her during “Marnie” and then because she refused anything to do with him he kept her under contract but refused to let her act in anything, ruining the strongest part of her career.

I read recently that Melanie Griffith refuses to watch her daughter in the 50 shades films because it’s weird for her, but she loves the books. Tippi has never seen the films but has the DVD and intends to watch it with Dakota sometime. Interviewers of course ask how they feel about the baby of the family and the youngest of this dynasty being in these films. Now, Melanie sounds like she doesn’t give what she says full thought anyways, but she almost makes it sounds like she approves of taking risks to improve your career by exploiting yourself in an erotic film from the back of the video store labeled “adults only.”

One would think that Melanie would remember some scary incidents from when she was five or six where her mother would come home from filming “The Birds” and “Marnie” where Hitchcock would torture her mentally and even physically (final scene in ‘The Birds’), when he would stalk her and try to control her life, that her mother would fall into deep sleeps and then Melanie would go to check on her and Tippi being so startled, due to exhaustion and shock, that she would wake up and scream “stop, stop, stop” thinking she was still on set having live birds hurled at her. You think this would traumatize Melanie, and she would associate it with “contract related sexual abuse” as she learned from her mother that more of an intervention would have been staged on Dakota before she submitted to a film like this. Let alone film(s).

I’m sure when Tippi watches the movies with Dakota, if she has not already, that some form of talk about women being exploited, stalked, and followed would presume. Heck, Dakota might be avoiding this because she knows what’s coming. If you don’t know the story of “the girl” that of Hitchcock and Hedren, you live under a rock of some sort.

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