Upon thinking of what to do for my genre switch layout pages, I remembered a movie that fit perfectly for what I plan on doing, yet I overlooked in my blog. I find Girl Next Door interesting simply because it is meant to be a regular teen-sex comedy, yet clearly borders on teen-porn attempted-comedy. Elisha Cuthbert (who I remember from Popular Mechanics for Kids) plays a porn star trying to get away from the life by moving into a small town, next door to a dorky teenage boy who instantly falls in love with her. In this movie, Elisha could not wear sexier or tighter clothes if she tried, and includes a sexy pool scene, a scene with her attempting to seduce the dork in a hotel room, and finally, the incredibly awkward sex scene at the end of the movie in the back seat of the limo (how romantic).
Most teen-sex comedies focus on teenagers in some embarrassing or impossible situation, with sexual gags,
innuendos or embarrassing circumstances. This movie doesn’t contain a scene that doesn’t have to do with sex, strippers, porn stars, date nights, making porn, lingerie shows, porn star parties or sex scenes. It’s as if the point of the movie was to show as much skin as possible, and the plot line had to try to keep up as best it could. If you’re looking for another “guilty pleasure” to stash with your new copy of Wild Things, this can be purchased at your local Wal-mart for 6.99 in one of those big bargain bins, if you’re not too embarrassed to purchase it.*Spoiler Warnings*
High points of the movie: main guy character (Emile Hirsch) has sexy pool scene with hottie Elisha and then gets her to ring his buddy’s doorbell (soaking wet) and say “I’m all wet, Can I come in?” Yes, trust me that’s a high point. Oh, and Elisha is at her annual porn-star convention in Vegas and Emile’s nerdy guy friends pretend they are porn directors, until they almost get the shit kicked out of them by a male porn star for groping his porn star girlfriend while “auditioning” her. The plot line is about as unrealistic as the main sex scene.At the end of the movie, resident Dork finally gets laid by the former porn-star after he helped her get her life back on track. It is supposed to be romantic and sweet sex (in the back of the limo…on prom night – can I get a Holy Cliché, Batman) but actually just looks like the porn pro is faking it while the virgin has a permi-holy-shit-this-is-awesome face happening. He looks so stunned the whole time and she has the standard porn face on, it doesn’t really come off as sweet sex, but awkward to watch and cheesy altogether. As funny as some parts are in this film, this scene is such a let down.
Obviously the movie is incredibly unrealistic (some would argue that’s what makes it funny, as well as a movie) but what kinds of unrealistic stereotypes does this film set up about porn stars?
Come to think of it, the entire porn industry is so commercialized, idealized, and romanticized in this movie that it glosses over any moral implications that comes along with the very important issue of pornography, and all that it entails.
From all we know regarding treatment of porn stars, abuse, rape and child pornography, does this film give a younger generation unrealistic ideals of the porn industry, and could this be a problem for porn in the future (in terms of how much more violent or destructive it may get)?
2 comments:
I always think of her as the PMK girl. It's really weird to see her all whored up. Kinda creepy. It's also ironic that she went from someone who was promoting knowledge and is now promoting her body.
Ugh.
So true. That is very interesting point.. Do all celebs eventually make this cross-over because their careers/images depend on it?
Does anyone remember when Lindsay Lohan was squeeky clean..because she was... cnce upon a time.
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