I read the book about a year ago and in the trailer there was a rape scene. Was it in the book?
shareYes, the doctor's son tells Dewey Dell that if she has sex with him it will get rid of her baby.
"He gave me hope when hope was gone, He gave me strength to journey on!"
I'm absolutely horrified that they included such a brutal scene in the 'green' trailer for this film. I'm casually sitting at my desk at work eating my lunch, and suddenly I'm watching a rape? Are you freaking kidding me?
Those of us - and there are millions of us - who carry the scars of sexual trauma need to know in advance when we'll be subjected to images of sexual brutality so that we have the option of avoiding it. It's a massive trigger and there was asbolutely no need for it in the trailer.
Shame on the studio and their PR department. Shame on Franco. Any chance they had of getting my time & money are shot to hell and they can go right along with it.
Everyone's a coward about something.
- The Hurt Locker
I think you need to accept that your past is just that, the past. You shouldn't expect others to make a trailer that wouldn't accurately represent the content of the movie. The trailer was far from graphic.
For what it's worth, you may want to grow a thicker skin. If this is the worst thing to happen to you, you're not only lucky, you should be grateful to have not experienced worse.
Grow thicker skin?!?!?! You should be ashamed of yourself. Hopefully your mother, your daughter or any one you are close with never experiences one of the worst things that can happen to a person. Because if they do, they will need a compassionate person to help them through the hurt.
shareNo, I shouldn't be ashamed of myself. I've experienced this, and things far, far worse.
Speaking from personal experience, one should be so lucky as to have this the worst thing they ever experience.
Mother? She's dead. Daughter? I don't have one, but I do have a dead son.
Again, from personal experience, grow a thicker skin. It's a movie and a vague reminder of a bad experience. As bad as it was, there's worse things ut there. If this is the worst thing this person has been through, they should be grateful.
After all, they, too, could have had to pick up pieces of a dead loved one. .357s do amazing things to a head.
Make yourself necessary to somebody. -Emerson
"I think you need to accept that your past is just that, the past. You shouldn't expect others to make a trailer that wouldn't accurately represent the content of the movie. The trailer was far from graphic.
For what it's worth, you may want to grow a thicker skin. If this is the worst thing to happen to you, you're not only lucky, you should be grateful to have not experienced worse."
I think that's the most disgusting reply I've ever seen on IMDb, and I've been on here pretty regularly for the past 8 years, on boards about horrific subject matter.
The robot falls in love.
If that the most disgusting thing you've seen on here, you're lucky. Reality has far worse things to see than some rather bunt words.
Like the reverb of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Or the two months of finding unexpected little surprises like the ones form inside said head.
Really? A post about dealing with rape better is the worst thing you've seen? Wow
Make yourself necessary to somebody. -Emerson
No, the callousness of your reply made it the worst REPLY to someone I've seen on here, as I clearly said. I've seen people being idiots, but I can't recall ever seeing someone comment on another's trauma and tell them to get over it in quite this way. You don't know what I've been through or what I've seen, but you clearly think you've been through the worst life has to offer and everyone else should just shut up. A lack of empathy, to me, is disgusting.
The robot falls in love.
And, as I stated in my previous reply, if this is the worst you've seen ON HERE, you're lucky. I'm sure people could say far worse to one another, casting blame and insults.
Do I hold my self of as the epitome of suffering? Far from it. I'm grateful that I haven't experienced the far worse things out there. I think others sometimes need a dose of reality as to what bad is. To get riled up over a very tiny spot on a trailer seems like an overreaction to the intent of the trailer. I would be grateful for the warning that the movie would have worse, as I'm sure the trailer intended.
Make yourself necessary to somebody. -Emerson
Tonyast72-1, I've never been raped, but I found your response absolutely horrifying. You may want to educate yourself on what that sort of violence does to the victim's brain before you respond to them in such a callous manner. They never grow a thicker skin. The fight or flight response is forever thereafter wired in. In other words, for the rest of their lives they experience the original terror whenever they are exposed to reminders of their trauma. And responses like yours make them feel more isolated. I don't doubt you will abuse me for speaking up, but I don't like cruelty.
Geez.
I am educated on what happens. I was a victim, as I stated before. My advice has more to do with gratitude for the warning that the trailer gives concerning the content of the actual movie, as I also stated. And, advice on how to handle these little surprises dealt in life.
Will I abuse you? No. Not as you did to me by your lack of understanding.
I'm with Tony. Seems nowadays there are always people looking to find anything they can cry out as "Offensive" to them.
The world is a giant place, and sadly lots of bad things happen to people, always have. But, the world is too broad and chaotic a place that everyone can always be politically correct and not offensive to any number of the infinite things that might offend a particular person.
In this case, I don't think the production company, james franco, someone who is practicing their art, whoever, is knowingly and willfully trying to offend anyone by showing parts of the movie, their creation, whatever you want to call it, in a damn trailer.
I totally get what Tony is saying.
One can get past sexual trauma. It takes hard work but it IS possible if you are willing to put in the time and effort rather than hiding behind the pain.
shareagreed. Too many victims of sexual abuse (I am one) embrace their status of being victims of trauma rather than do the hard work of therapeutic recovery from trauma, expecting the whole world to enable them in the process. I blame the therapists who don't push their clients to get over it.
shareJames Franco doesn't personally edit the trailers, nor does he oversee the scenes or clips included in the trailer. Shame on him for what? Including a scene from the novel?
I agree with Tony. How long are you to carry that cross. What are you gaining from it other than the obvious attention you are getting.
And the responders mother,daughter, sister is not the issue here. You are the one that needs counseling.
Not untrue per se. It happened, he's just expanding on it. It's very common for adaptations to expand on things not shown in a book.
"He gave me hope when hope was gone, He gave me strength to journey on!"
People need to realize directors are usually not responsible for what a trailer looks like. Footage is sent somewhere, it's pieced together, and the studio advertises the final product. Just because a directors name is attached to a product, doesnt mean they are involved in every aspect of the production.
A director has about as much to do with a trailer as the set caterer has to do with the cinematography.
I'm going to disagree that there was a rape in the book.
Dewey Dell thinks she's talking to a doctor about getting an abortion but the doctor is really some sort of shop or pharmacy assistant. He says he will give her abortion pills (some now and some later) if she comes back when the shop is closed so they can work out an exchange.
Dewey Dell already has a suspicion about men in general and believes they are only after using her for sex. She's not the brightest bulb but there is some arguing between the shop's assistants that I think she gets that things aren't kosher with the agreement she's making.
She meets up with the assistant, as narrated by a different character, but also says to herself that she knows what he's going to give her are fake abortion pills. This conclusion cements her thinking that men are pigs and such is life.
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