Okay, maybe not. More like, Move over Redford and let Rover take over. Either that, or maybe Sundance breeds new life into the Electric Horseman franchise. What was it Bob Redford was just saying about the Right quashing freedom and Bush needing to apologize for Iraq?
Today, our newly-favorite wily Hollywood conservative, Danny Bonaduce, gave his take on Robert Redford’s screed against President Bush and the war at the Sundance Film Festival.
Must be a bummer being in Sundance and feeling so oppressed and all. Next thing you know the Attorney General will try and confiscate Redford's bestiality film. So much for Gay Marriage, the Left has moved on.
It's winning raves among the Hollywood crowd for capturing the mood and spirit of situations - and the dialog - woof! woof! So much for Man Bites Dog as a descriptor for a news worthy item. Something tells me there will have to be a little more to it than that in the future.
PARK CITY, Utah -- "Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted.
"Zoo," premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director (the little-seen "Police Beat") and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic in the least, this strange and strangely beautiful film combines audio interviews (two of the three men involved did not want to appear on camera) with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations. The director himself puts it best: "I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it."
"I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it."
Gosh - why would he need to do that?
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:05 AM
Danny Bonaduce? Now THERE'S a intellectual giant. He's probably one of the players who didn't show his face and now he's trying to increase the movie's 'buzz.'
Posted by: Bill Adkins | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 08:30 AM
exactamundo, PA. ya nailed it: asked the question they *cannot* allow themselves to hear.
way back when, william f. buckley wrote an article blasting playboy for their girlie pictures: he said uncomplimetary things about the lovelies posed in awkward position to better expose their "parted pudenda".
playboy was hurt. they wrote back: "we don't show no parted pudenda!"
buckley answered, "why not?"
they never answered back. why not indeed? we've come a long way sice then. the love that once dared not whisper its name is now grown hoarse from shouting it; LPGA tournaments are now like a melissa etheridge concert only with sand traps; and now - to further break down the boundaries, to bring us closer to god - now they're doing beastiality movies.
safe bet we'll be seeing snuff films win critical awards within 20 years.
Posted by: larry | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Larry, honey,........... you ruined my lunch. Not because of thinking about parted pudendas or boinking Muffy, but because you mentioned The Plenipotentiary of Logorrhea, WFB. oh gawd I hate that man.
I don't know what all the fuss is about the Zoo Boys. It's been a happenin' thing since the beginning of "I have a headache, dear.", and now everyone is all shocked that sex is fun when you don't have to talk or buy dinner? Just throw them down in the hay and feed 'em some after.
I think I have some libertine leanings.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 01:04 PM
I don't know what all the fuss is about.
What fun is it when there's nothing left that's taboo? Answer - for many, not much.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 02:28 PM
phoenix, you have a point about the "hey, look how many big words *I* know!" wfb.
that's why the only wfb quote i'll ever use is "why not?". bright guy....a little *too* bright, if you know what i mean. i'm for good vocabularyness as much as the next guy, but....
Posted by: larry | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 03:32 PM
Danny Bonaduce? The notorious former child star who had a well publicized altercation with a transvestite? The perpetual guest on Trash TV talk shows? This is your beacon of light in Hollywood? Man, I feel sorry for you all.
Posted by: The Decider | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 04:59 PM
You got a problem with tranny's Decider?
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 05:36 PM
Not to make hay and add to the fodder of this great artsy movie, but it will marginalize the left even more when this movie starts getting raves. Taboos keep mystery intact, and as the left insists on wiping out all taboos and the deliciousness of mystery, they'll just show themselves for the sybarites they are. "What?! Sacrifice this sheep?? You are kidding, right?"
(Larry - that word was for you. :) "Sybarite" - one devoted to pleasure.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 06:05 PM
"What fun is it when there's nothing left that's taboo? Answer - for many, not much."
We will never run out of 'someone else's wife'.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 06:08 PM
Actually, Phoenix, the movie is a documentary about right wing sex practices. Nothing to with the left. Next, a Dickless Morris Toe Sucking instructional video.
Posted by: Bill Adkins | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 07:54 PM
Bill,
Really? You mean like "Deliverance"? eeu. So, the documentary part is to inform the liberals that the righties do it with animals and like it? It was nice of the director to make it artsy and to take the sleaze out of it for the righties. That was thoughtful.
The only thing I don't understand is why he had to make a movie to inform the liberals about this. I always thought they knew everything already.
Have to agree with you about Mr. Morris. He is a bit too gleeful for my tastes.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 09:19 PM
"The only thing I don't understand is why he had to make a movie to inform the liberals about this. I always thought they knew everything already."
Inform? Naah - it is to laugh.
Posted by: Bill Adkins | Monday, January 22, 2007 at 09:29 PM
whaaat, no snide comments from the lefty swine about dickless barney fwank videos? is the deal that "the left only mocks homos when they're republican?"
is that it?
Posted by: larry | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 12:42 AM
"More hay, Trigger?"
"No thanks, Roy. I'm stuffed."
Posted by: Phoenix | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 12:45 AM
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."
Romans 1:22-25 (KJV)
"Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants."
Leviticus 18:23-25 (KJV)
Yup. This country is doomed, if we really get to thinking that bestiality is the cat's meow.
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 12:34 PM