Comments on: AWFJ Women On Film - The Week in Women, July 24, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson http://awfj.org/2009/07/24/awfj-women-on-film-the-week-in-women-july-24-2009-maryann-johanson/ Thu, 17 May 2012 07:43:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Funny People: Douthat and Apatow Break Our Kettle and Want us to Buy it Back « zunguzungu http://awfj.org/2009/07/24/awfj-women-on-film-the-week-in-women-july-24-2009-maryann-johanson/#comment-7585 Funny People: Douthat and Apatow Break Our Kettle and Want us to Buy it Back « zunguzungu Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:43:30 +0000 http://awfj.org/?p=3591#comment-7585 [...] have enough trees. Which is why I’m glad Millicent wrote what she did; as many people have pointed out, rightly, the movie exemplifies the worst of Apatow’s knee-jerk misogyny, but [...] [...] have enough trees. Which is why I’m glad Millicent wrote what she did; as many people have pointed out, rightly, the movie exemplifies the worst of Apatow’s knee-jerk misogyny, but [...]

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]]> By: Newbs http://awfj.org/2009/07/24/awfj-women-on-film-the-week-in-women-july-24-2009-maryann-johanson/#comment-7549 Newbs Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:53:20 +0000 http://awfj.org/?p=3591#comment-7549 <blockquote cite="MaryAnn">But if Heigl thinks all it takes for a movie to be “grownup” is a few swear words… well, I see now how she could have agreed to go along with this.</blockquote>Well, hey... it's not necessarily Heigl that thinks this about movies. It's the MPAA. When a film can get an "R" for saying "fuck" more than once (regardless of the amount of violence on screen, for example (see: <i>The Dark Knight</i>)) there's a cog missing from the Hollywood machine. It's not language that makes a film grown up, sure, but you can't fault an actor for using the concept as shorthand for grown up films, since it often seems to be the only criteria for a "grown up" rating.

But if Heigl thinks all it takes for a movie to be “grownup” is a few swear words… well, I see now how she could have agreed to go along with this.

Well, hey… it’s not necessarily Heigl that thinks this about movies. It’s the MPAA. When a film can get an “R” for saying “fuck” more than once (regardless of the amount of violence on screen, for example (see: The Dark Knight)) there’s a cog missing from the Hollywood machine. It’s not language that makes a film grown up, sure, but you can’t fault an actor for using the concept as shorthand for grown up films, since it often seems to be the only criteria for a “grown up” rating.

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