Image of the day, 7/31/11

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• James says:

  July 31, 2011 at 11:52 am

  Great movie, although the full-on cop­ro­phil­ia is a bit much.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  July 31, 2011 at 12:34 pm

  Oh, there now. The “full on cop­ro­phil­ia” is all in your head there, son. Or, rather, a res­ult of mont­age and sug­ges­tion. But this isn’t “Salo,” not by a long shot. Or are you mak­ing a Roger Kimball joke that’s too dry for me to get?

• Tom Russell says:

  July 31, 2011 at 12:46 pm

  If it’s too dry, fiber is usu­ally required.

• Oliver_C says:

  July 31, 2011 at 1:05 pm

  Forget ‘Salo’ and ‘L’Age d’or’ – these days even kids’ movies like ‘Alvin & The Chipmunks’ con­tain blatant cop­ro­phil­ia jokes.

• Lex says:

  July 31, 2011 at 2:23 pm

  Not try­ing to tell any­one what to do, but if I had my own blog, Image of the Day every day would be like Emma Watson, Kristen Stewart, Amber Heard, Teresa Palmer, Emma Roberts, Amanda Seyfried or Dakota Fanning.
  Just spitballin’.

• jbryant says:

  July 31, 2011 at 2:31 pm

  Oliver: And the trail­ers for such films invari­ably fea­ture those scenes. ‘Cause kids love doo-doo. Sometimes I also think the mar­keters assume it adds value for older auds as well. Like, “I liked ALVIN when I was a kid, but it’s too innoc­u­ous for me now – wait, was that a shit joke? I am so there!”

• James says:

  July 31, 2011 at 3:02 pm

  It was a Roger Kimball joke, sorry (although, you know, it shows I’ve been pay­ing atten­tion at the back here). It’s a great movie, full stop.

• haice says:

  July 31, 2011 at 4:59 pm

  For a split second I thought it was anoth­er Tarantino e‑mail.

• Jeff McMahon says:

  July 31, 2011 at 6:11 pm

  Dakota Fanning is 17. Stop being a per­vert, Lex.

• jbryant says:

  July 31, 2011 at 10:47 pm

  Yes, Lex, try to stifle that Fanning lust for just 7 more months, at which time your attrac­tion to her will magic­ally become appropriate.

• James R says:

  August 1, 2011 at 12:33 am

  Watching Alvin & the Chipmunks kind of *was* coprophilia…

• Tom Russell says:

  August 1, 2011 at 12:44 pm

  “Another Tarantino e‑mail”? Am I miss­ing something?
  I haven’t seen[*] the Chipmunks films, though a friend assures me that “David Cross saves” the first one, which “actu­ally isn’t that bad”. But the poop gag in the trail­er really turned me off– it’s not neces­sar­ily a fran­chise I have a lot of affec­tion for, not some­thing with a deep myth­os or any­thing, but it just seemed so dis­respect­ful and, well, shitty towards those who did like the thing, which just rubs me the wrong way.
  [*– I have *heard* some of it, though, because the theat­er where we saw THERE WILL BE BLOOD was right next to a theat­er play­ing CHIPMUNKS, and the walls were thin. This usu­ally isn’t too much of a prob­lem, but since the first twenty minutes of BLOOD are on the quiet side, all the zany dia­logue came through crys­tal clear. And yet, such was the strength of TWBB, even that did not pre­vent me from (even­tu­ally) being fully absorbed into its world.]

• I.B. says:

  August 1, 2011 at 12:52 pm

  “Yes, Lex, try to stifle that Fanning lust for just 7 more months, at which time your attrac­tion to her will magic­ally become appropriate.”
  It will also mis­ter­i­ously with­er. The “acces­ible” and real woman she will grow up into will invari­ably dis­s­a­point Lex in com­par­i­sion with the woman she’s already blos­somed into in his head, such woman being the girl she is just now but with a glow­ing neon sign on her T‑shirt read­ing ‘LEGAL’ and sur­roun­ded by all the intriguing con­nota­tions of such word applied in the present con­text. Such fant­ast­ic ima­gin­ings, a for­bid­den creature being allowed (allowed to some­thing, I guess); that is, keep­ing her awe­some for­bidde­ness and at the same time dis­play­ing an awe­some allowed­ness. Won’t do. Either desire and not have, or have and not desire. And you won’t have her any­way, so, desire! 7 months left to ima­gine, then noth­ing. More than noth­ing, but it will feel like less than noth­ing, you will be even. Enjoy, poor, poor Lex, while there is time, if indeed there is time at all, if time is all is there.
  Desist.

• Bilge says:

  August 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm

  ^ Like

• jbryant says:

  August 1, 2011 at 2:26 pm

  That’s lovely and poet­ic, I.B., but unfor­tu­nately belied by Lex’s ongo­ing infatu­ation with the per­fectly leg­al Kristin Stewart, Mila Kunis, Megan Fox, et al. (As a long­time read­er of MCN’s Hot Blog, I have been made privy to the full spec­trum of Lex’s lust.)

• Lex says:

  August 1, 2011 at 3:02 pm

  Yeah, I get what I.B. is going for, and that has happened with a couple lower-tier cheese­ball star­lets usu­ally of the Disney vari­ety, not just for me but man­kind in gen­er­al– think how there were all these queasy-taste shock-jock count­downs for the Olsens or Hilary Duff, and today NOBODY cares. In those spe­cif­ic cases, that for­bid­den but tempt­ingly hot factor was the main draw for girls that did­n’t really have “it” to back up the tee-hee factor.
  But Dakota is DEFINITELY in the K‑Stew, Emma Roberts, Kunis, Taylor Swift, Amanda Seyfried realm of OH MY GOOD LOOK AT HER where I’m entirely enchanted and will con­tin­ue to be until they a) have a kid or b) get married.
  With Kristen, I had seen her in some of her early stuff then one day saw a movie called “Speak” where I almost fell off my chair, was UTTERLY HYPNOTIZED, and knew I was see­ing THE most per­fect female avatar for EVERYTHING I find attract­ive I had EVER seen… I did­n’t even blink for one second in the entirely of the movie. Six years on, I still feel that way every second I am LOOKING AT HER.
  YEP.

• Asher says:

  August 1, 2011 at 8:23 pm

  To para­phrase what Godard said about John Wayne, how can Lex be so stu­pid and crass and yet, not really that stu­pid at all?