Let's get back to the fundamentals of the world as we know it. Sex. More specifically pornography. Call it porn, porno, naked lady films, nudie films, etcetera.
This weekend is a landmark of sorts for the American film industry. Friday is the release date of Director Kevin Smith's raunchiest film to date, Zack & Miri Make a Porno.
I know that given Smith's history and the casting of Seth Rogen as the lead character Zack that the movie will be funny. The dialog will be filthy. The movie will be huge as far as comedies go.
What really has my undies in a bunch is the mainstream advertising for this film.
At some times on various big television networks, the film's title appears in full, other times -- sometimes on the same network (most notably NBC) -- the title is simply displayed as Zack & Miri. What has me puzzled the most is that in early evening hours (7 PM) I saw the film's full title displayed in the commercial touting its upcoming opening and the abridged version was seen past 11 PM during an episode of Saturday Night Live.
Is it just me or it this backwards? The movie isn't a porn flick nor is it any more sexually graphic than anything else released in the past few years. We can view television shows on the major networks during prime time that depict sexual acts and feature phrases which lie just outside of George Carlin's Seven Words such as penis, vagina, nipple, camel toe, slut, whore and a whole host of phrases which wouldn't have been acceptable in the relatively tight-laced 80s but we can't see the word porno typed out in a damn commercial? Where is this supposed secular culture that the ultra-religious feverishly bitch about? I just want to see porno typed out on my hi-def tv.
Alas, there is no porn at MinnPics but there is a wealth of stunning photography from across Minnesota.
6 comments:
Now I am dying to see commercial.
What I do not understand is that nudity is forbidden, but people do not blink an eye at the extreme violence in TV shows today. I'd rather seem a show with naked people than a show with lots of dead people.
The whole time I was reading this, I was thinking man, he's going to get some keyword traffic today...
Good questions considering that they now have infomercials for womens' vibrators and penis pumps. And mainstream network channels show commercials for KY lubricant now....It's a very mixed message.
Well, I think you just bought yourself some comments from new and leather-clad people...
All good points about what does appear to be a very mixed message. You can advertise boner pills but when it comes to spelling out the word "porno" it's off limits. Fact vs. fiction is what confuses and offends people. Fiction = bad, fact = good. Fact is, plenty of old white guys (maybe the same ones running the TV networks) have limp penis syndrome and will gladly accept ad dollars from companies that promise a remedy but when it's a movie about young, virile folks that can make with the sexy time, it's offensive because the old white guy in a suit doesn't have that luxury.
Dammit, i want some more input, this whole theory has me intrigued!
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