Hounddog blows
I too sat through yesterday afternoon's press screening of Hounddog, and I agree with everyone else that it's nothing. Nothing to see, nothing to release, nothing to rent, nothing to get shocked or stirred about...just another neo-Faulknerian Southern gothic wallow with a tasteful, non-inflammatory Dakota Fanning rape scene. I'll say this: Fanning is a very skilled, super-readable scene inhabitor. That may have been obvious to others previously, but this is the first film she's had to "carry" as the star. Here's an excellent rip-job review by Screengrab's Mike D'Angelo, and another negative review by N.Y. Post critic Lou Lumenick.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 24, 2007 at 3:21 PM
comment #1
Doug
says ...
For those concerned about Dakota Fanning going from a film where she talks to a piglet to one where she is raped, it is not just about how the scene appears in the final film. It's about how long was the scene originally, how many takes did she have to do, how was the scene explained to her? I completely understand people being upset with the filmmakers and Dakota's mother. I hate to think that a child may have lost her innocence for the sake of an apparently bad indie film.
Posted by Doug
at January 24, 2007 7:23 PM
comment #2
LYTrules
says ...
Someone's gonna have fun intersplicing the two on Youtube.
Posted by LYTrules
at January 25, 2007 12:32 AM