Talk:Kids (film)

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"Harvey Weinstein of Miramax, wary of (or perhaps even pressured by) parent company Disney's opinion of the risky screenplay, passed on funding the production of the film. After Cary Woods showed him the final cut, however, Harvey and his brother Bob bought the distribution rights to the film on their own, without Miramax/Disney money (much like they did for Fahrenheit 9/11)."

This is slightly wrong, and somebody, not me, should correct it if they feel like it. The film was originally purchased by Miramax, by then a Disney company, at Sundance. When it was submitted to the MPAA they gave it an NC-17, which director Larry Clark rejected, opting instead to release it unrated because he wanted younger people to see it. Miramax, as part of Disney, is unable to release films unrated because of some agreement with the MPAA. Clark was offered money to cut the film to get a lower rating but refused. In the end the Weinsteins, the heads of Miramax, bought Kids back from Miramax and released it through their own new company called "Excalibur," which was created specifically to distribute the movie. Gus Van Sant is also credited as Executive Producer on the film when this article says he "fell off the project" after Cary Woods came along. Both in fact have producer credits.

Contents 1 YouTube 2 Jenny & HIV 2.1 Assumption about Jenny's sexual past 3 Vandalism 4 Sex scene with Telly and Darcy 5 Mad Props

[edit] YouTube

on youtube.com they have the whole movie in ten part segments, where is part 1?

try to write "kids clark"- that should help alought two parts of the movie weer deleted

It is better if you sign your posts, and date them. Also wikipeadia does not support copyright infringement, I think. --Jackaranga 22:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jenny & HIV

I think Jenny's drugged-out date rape near the end pretty much tells us that we can't trust her belief that Telly was the only sexual contact she'd had. I've chaned the plot description in the article to more accurately reflect what we saw in the film. Furthermore, since we are in fact dealing with a piece of fiction, it's hard to assess the "facts" of things that happened off-screen and were only discussed by unreliable characters in the story. --Wclark 01:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

In addtion "asper then rapes her in her sleep, therefore getting HIV." is incorrect. The fact is that there's a pretty low risk of female to male transmission of HIV. While clearly that's what the movie years to imply, it's a faulty assumed to assume Casper just infected himself.

[edit] Assumption about Jenny's sexual past

The fact that Jenny is raped while *unconscious* does not divulge ANY information about her past sexual experience, this is a very ignorant thing to assume. Drugs like "rufees" actually work to make the victim docile and easily lead. The victim will actually REMEMBER what happened, though the details of which remain foggy and therefore it is hard to process crimes that involve drugs. As an aside, I believe this film is grossly sensational, portraying rape as morbidly desirable for men. 69.250.217.217

How does this pertain to the article? Also, please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of them. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 06:54, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

There are random acts of hidden silly vandalism in the article. Also the discussion page promotes illegal activity. --Jackaranga 22:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sex scene with Telly and Darcy

A few times I noticed in the plot description that Telly was described as "raping" Darcy. I truly believe the sex act between Telly and Darcy to be consentual; I can only guess one of the editors said it was rape because she was crying. You need to take into consideration that Darcy was losing her virginity and was no doubt in a lot of pain as Telly was, due to lack of a better word, pounding her aggressively and not taking her feelings into consideration.

[edit] Mad Props

Whoever came up with "Using sweet-talk and adulation, Telly convinces the virginal girl to have sex with him." should get some kind of medal. Honestly it's the greatest sentence in the whole of Wikipedia. 213.202.134.184 (talk) 04:52, 2 March 2008 (UTC)