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Acting and incest
delalluvia:
Heh, while looking around for the info I read about on the Dave Cullen board, I ran across this essay on 'Donnie Darko' on the Roger Ebert website wherein the author pretty much says that Donnie Darko's sexual hangups are all about his sister.
Guess one director didn't have any problem assigning a vague incestuous type relationship to their characters. If you go for his POV, that is.
Here's the link, it's got spoilers for those who haven't seen 'Donnie Darko'. It was a bit long to post:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041102/EDITOR/41022001/1023
opinionista:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on June 20, 2006, 07:29:19 pm ---.
???? Jamie Lee Curtis isn't Jake's mother.
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I meant GodMother, sorry!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on June 20, 2006, 07:46:32 pm ---Guess one director didn't have any problem assigning a vague incestuous type relationship to their characters. If you go for his POV, that is.
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I didn't read Ebert's piece because I haven't seen Donnie Darko. But isn't what we're talking about relationships between the actual actors, not between characters? In other words, DD probably isn't the first with characters in vaguely incestuous relationships -- Gladiator is another, for example, and there are probably others. That wouldn't bother me. But knowing that the actors playing lovers (incestuous or otherwise) are members of the same family in real life, that would be too weird. Consequently, I doubt the actors, the director or any of the filmmakers would consider it a good casting choice -- talk about lack of chemistry! (Or is it too much shared chemistry?)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 20, 2006, 11:46:38 pm ---I didn't read Ebert's piece because I haven't seen Donnie Darko. But isn't what we're talking about relationships between the actual actors, not between characters? In other words, DD probably isn't the first with characters in vaguely incestuous relationships -- Gladiator is another, for example, and there are probably others. That wouldn't bother me. But knowing that the actors playing lovers (incestuous or otherwise) are members of the same family in real life, that would be too weird. Consequently, I doubt the actors, the director or any of the filmmakers would consider it a good casting choice -- talk about lack of chemistry! (Or is it too much shared chemistry?)
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Hiya kat,
Originally I was just wondering if Jake and Maggie would ever consider playing characters who are lovers, wherein in order to play the roles, they would have to act making out or having sex, possibly semi-nude with each other and whether they could do it. Directors would not have much of a say in the matter, it being inappropriate for them to suggest them for such roles, but whether or not THEY may choose to do it for a role or for a chance to BE in some director's production.
In the case of DD, the gist of the essay was that Donnie was lusting after his sister in a very primal, pubescent possessive kind of way and what you have is a movie in which brother Jake is 'acting' as if he wants his real sister Maggie. So he's already a step on the road toward 'warming up' to her in the acting world.
serious crayons:
Oh, I get it. Still, I think vaguely suggested lusting is probably as far as any filmmakers would care to go, don't you, Del? Whoever makes final casting decisions -- I gather it's some combination of actors wanting the parts and a director wanting to cast them, plus producers and whoever else weighing in -- everybody involved would probably realize it was a terrible idea, don't you think?
I wouldn't work if the siblings were supposed to be genuinely romantic onscreen -- the audience would be too turned off. I suppose I could stretch my mind to imagine a situation in which the characters were supposed to be icky ... but even then, IMO, that kind of stunt casting would be weird enough to distract viewers from the story.
So in any case, it seems unlikely to happen. (Which I suppose, judging from my track record of predictions, means in a few years it will.)
Speaking of taboos, I was pretty disappointed that in the movie "The English Patient" the fillmmakers chose to omit (or change) a scene that, in the book, is clearly suggestive of necrophilia. Truthfully, I wasn't that crazy about either the movie or the book, but I loved that aspect of the book. The scene was kind of vague, and I can't say it was all that sexy, but it sure was something I'd never seen in a love story before! In the movie, though, they chickened out.
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