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Dakota Fanning Appreciation #3 - Hollywood Loves Her and So Do We
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Facts Name: Hannah Dakota Fanning Birthday: February 23, 1994 Hometown: Conyers, Georgia, USA Height: 4' 9œ" (1.46 m) Parents: Joy and Steve Fanning Sibling: Younger sister, actress Elle Fanning Filmography Charlotte's Web (2006) .... Fern Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) (completed) .... Cale Crane Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) (V) .... Lilo War of the Worlds (2005) .... Rachel Hide and Seek (2005) .... Emily Callaway Nine Lives (2005) .... Maria Man on Fire (2004) .... Pita Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003) (TV) (voice) .... Preschool Kim The Cat in the Hat (2003) .... Sally Uptown Girls (2003) .... Lorraine "Ray" Schleine Hansel & Gretel (2002) .... Katie "Taken" (2002) (mini) TV Series .... Allison 'Allie' Clarke/Keys Sweet Home Alabama (2002) .... Young Melanie Trapped (2002) .... Abigail Jennings I Am Sam (2001) .... Lucy Diamond Dawson Tomcats (2001) .... Little Girl in Park Father Xmas (2001) .... Clairee Tonari no Totoro (1988) (voice: English version) .... Satsuki (2005 Disney version) Latest Pictures Links Lovely Dakota Precious Dakota Pure Talent - Dakota Fanlisting Simply Dakota Nine Lives Official Site Dreamer Official Site Last Thread Dakota Supporters ScRaPbOoKlOvEr98 patricia84 PiCkLeS4dAwSoN -Kelly- Sweet_Honeycomb Josephine Leery buffyandspike4ever xXxCaycexXx Ella_Ocean evielost lyndell75 eleonor zxeyn baelfire24 atwoodsmariano PM the thread starter or just ask to be added! __________________
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I have liked Dakota since i saw her in I am Sam
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Furor Over 12-Year-Old Fanning's Rape Scene
The New York Times LOS ANGELES (Jan. 22) â Dakota Fanning will turn 13 next month, and she has a short answer for anyone who questions her decision to play a 1950s girl who gyrates in her underwear, wakes up as her naked father climbs into her bed, demands that a prepubescent boy expose himself to her in exchange for a kiss and, finally, is raped by a teenager who lures her with tickets to an Elvis concert: Scandal at Sundance Sheâs growing up. Get used to it. Ms. Fanning, best known for leading roles in childrenâs movies like âDreamerâ and âCharlotteâs Web,â thrillers like âMan on Fireâ and âWar of the Worlds,â and the horror film âHide and Seek,â now is starring in âHounddog,â an independent film that is to have its premiere on Monday at the Sundance Film Festival. It has already won attention far out of proportion to its budget of less than $4 million. When âHounddogâ was still shooting last summer near Wilmington, N.C., rumors about the rape scene kicked up a storm on the socially conservative end of the Web spectrum. Some suggested that Ms. Fanning was being exploited by the filmmakers, her parents and her agent. Hundreds signed a petition to persuade a local district attorney to prosecute the filmmakers under a law banning simulated sex with a minor. The furor hampered the production, and it continues on Fox News and on Web sites like A Minor Consideration (minorcon.org), run by Paul Petersen, an advocate for child actors. Mr. Petersen, himself a former child actor who played Donna Reedâs son on her 1960s sitcom, said in an interview that Ms. Fanning should never have been allowed to play the victim in a rape scene, no matter how much she wanted to or how sensitively it was filmed, and that her doing so violated the letter of federal child-pornography law. âNothing excuses it,â he said. âThe plain cold fact is this is illegal, the statutes are what they are, and Hollywood chose to ignore it. If theyâd made the character 15, and hired a 19-year-old, they wouldnât have heard a peep out of me.â But the Wilmington district attorney, who was shown a cut of the movie, said no crime was committed, and the filmâs writer and director, Deborah Kampmeier, said Ms. Fanning was treated more than appropriately: Though her character, Lewellen, disrobes under duress, for example, she is not seen nude, and Ms. Fanning was always clothed during the production. Ms. Fanning, for her part, says she is mystified by the outcry. Anyone who sees the film, she said on Monday in her first interview on the subject, would understand that the rape scene wasnât the point of the movie. âThatâs not who Lewellen is,â she said, sitting in her agentâs office in Universal City, braces on her teeth and a small crucifix over her sweater. âBecause that has happened to her, that doesnât define her. Because of this thing that has happened â that she did not ask for â she is labeled that, and itâs her story to overcome that and to be a whole person again.â âThere are so many children that this happens to, every second,â she added. âThatâs the sad part. If anyoneâs talking about anything, thatâs what they should be talking about.â Her mother, Joy Fanning, waited outside, and her agent, Cindy Osbrink, sat in, but it was Ms. Fanning who fielded the questions, and who made clear that her choices were, well, just that. âYou know, Iâm an actress,â she said. âItâs what I want to do, itâs what Iâve been so lucky to have done for almost seven years now. And I am getting older. February 23 is my birthday, Iâll be 13 years old. And I will be playing different kinds of roles. I wonât be able to do the things I did when I was 6 years old when Iâm 14. And thatâs what I look forward to â getting to play new roles that arenât too old for me and arenât too young for me, that are just at the right time.â She added: âLewellen is still very innocent, sheâs still a child, but sheâs also a little bit wise beyond her years because of the things sheâs seen and been through. So I think that I should be able to do what I feel is at the right time for me.â The story of âHounddogâ is about not just rape but also about the cycle of violence: nearly every major character in it is motherless, wounded, repressed and destructive. Lewellenâs grandmother (Piper Laurie) violates her too, if only with her eyes; her father (David Morse ) has been abusing her more directly, and it appears likely that, if nothing changes, Lewellen will become an abuser too. Get the Latest Festival Buzz at AOL's Sundance HQMs. Kampmeier said in a telephone interview that she had originally written the character as a 9-year-old, and first signed the actors Robin Wright Penn and Mr. Morse for the project in the late 1990s. But a succession of financial backers withdrew four times in four years, and she set the script aside in 2002 to make âVirgin,â her first feature, about a pregnant girl who believes that she is carrying Godâs child; Ms. Wright Penn played the girlâs mother in the film, which received mixed reviews. When Ms. Kampmeier sent Ms. Fanning the script for âHounddogâ in July 2005, Ms. Fanning said: âThe bottom line was, I couldnât not do it. Itâs all I could think about. I knew I was at the perfect age.â She had to wait nine months as Ms. Kampmeier hunted for investors; the subject matter remained objectionable to most, even with a proven star in the central role, the director said. (Making the most of that delay, Ms. Fanning said, the director sent her an e-mail message with a new question about Lewellen each morning: Favorite color? Favorite food? âThatâs why I was so comfortable in Lewellenâs skin,â Ms. Fanning said, âbecause I knew so much about her.â) Ms. Kampmeier said investors kept balking at the rape scene, demanding that it be shunted off-screen, merely implied or removed from the plot altogether. About the online petitions to have her arrested, she said that the district attorneyâs office in Wilmington was busy prosecuting real sex crimes, like one in which a 10-year-old girl was impregnated by her father. âAll these cases are reported in the newspaper, and nobody ever calls them about that,â she said. âBut they get 10 to 20 calls a day from people insisting that my movie be prosecuted.â Ms. Fanning said the most taxing scene for her was one in which her sleeping character is covered by snakes that slither in through the open window of her tumbledown shack. But it may be an earlier pivotal scene that draws more critical attention, should âHounddogâ find a distributor. In it Lewellen sings and dances her best Elvis impression â horizontally, on her bed â upon learning that the singer is coming to town. While she does, however, a teenage milkman is in the room, looking on a little too hungrily. Overly sexual behavior in minors is often a telltale sign of prior abuse, and provocation is, unfortunately, in the eye of the provoked. But to Ms. Kampmeierâs mind, and more important, to Ms. Fanningâs, Lewellenâs dancing in this scene is as innocent as her already corrupted life can get. âSheâs 12 years old,â Ms. Fanning said. âSheâs doing that because thatâs fun. Sheâs not going so far as to think, âOh, am I doing something wrong?â or âIs this going to look in a weird way?â Heâs just her milkman. Heâs coming to pick up the empties.â __________________
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Yeah, I heard about that I don't know if I'll see the movie
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I hope she doesn't get any Awards for this movie
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You know Jodie Foster, who was around the same age as Dakota (i think), hanged around in short clothes for her role in the Taxi Driver with Robert Di Niro
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I like Dakota. It must be hard growing up in the spotlight, but she seems to take it well.
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Dakota is a great actress. By taking on a controversial role, she's trying to prove she's not a one dimensional actress.
But also keep in mind that there are security precautions taken because she is so young, playing a mature role. Another point I'd like to make is, she's acting in the role of being 'raped'. It happens everyday to real girls her age and younger, if anything, she's a role model for stepping up and taking on such heavy material. |
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I'm proud of her for taking risks.
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Yes, she's a great actress and I can't wait to see her grow.
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Her CSI episode aired last week, and it deals with that subject of molestation, and in the episode the CSI's find evidence of inappropriate touching going on from the father.
My point is, she's somewhat dealt with the issue before (CSI) so even though she's going to be filming or has filmed the controversial 'rape' role, I expect that she's been well informed of what it is she's portraying. |
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Oh, I didn't know she was on a CSI ep.
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