I haven't done much acting but on Monday I starred as the Prude in the theater watching the Transformers sequel. Some players on the varsity girls team that I coach warned that the movie was long. They didn't tell me it contained some of the most riveting special effects laced with over-sexualized inuendos and soft-pornographic references.
So there. I'm the prude but I submit that if you see the movie and were a Transformers fan growing up you know that your love for Optimus Prime, Bumble Bee and the Dinobots had nothing to do with profanity and coed dorm scenes promoting guilt-free sexual mythology. That's kind of a weird term but it is mythology...to think that cool movies are vehicles for an industry that creates slaves to the tune of billions. I'm facetious in saying that I'm a prude and here's why the sarcasm.
In "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" the main character (Sam) is the nucleus of a battle for human survival as Deceptigons consort to bring all of humanity to its knees. In the meantime, however, Sam goes off to college, lives in a coed dorm and encounters droves of model-type women who pose a threat to his relationship with the cutie back home. Inordinant amounts of time are spent displaying fictitious images of college students as sex-crazed junkies who are too sexy for their shirts and hair. It's the myth of youth being out-of-control from the blog yesterday. I'm the prude because I'm talking about it and people my whole life has asked me to relax. But I have one contention and it's directed toward men. Here it is: "Relaxing hasn't done men much good." Like Kanye West once wrote, "Have you seen the test? You got Ds...Ds..." Try Fs when it comes to self-control. Men are failing as fathers even when they are at home because so many young people tell their teachers that fathers are emotionally unavailable. Furthermore, porn is making slaves of many men...even Christian men.
So sticks and stones break bones but you can die crossing the street so I'm okay with the title "Prude." I just want to see Optimus Prime vanquish Megatron. I don't need a sideorder of cleavage to advance to plot. It's non-sequitir and yet we fall for it time and time again. I'm a nobody with a teacher's salary but if Michael Bay was listeing or anyone else from his camp I'd say, "dude make your money but don't forget that you play a role in this society. Men distract easily and do some pretty heinous things when they're not focused. Help the brothas out" Strength to love one's family is not formed in a vaccuum. Men everywhere are trying not to fail, trying not to give in to temptation, and trying to establish a commendable heritage once they've checked out. Is it prudish to ask movie makers of a PG-13 film to keep the creativity and ditch the kryptonite?
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Not the only Prude.....
I too went to see the sequel to this blockbuster. Man does Mr. Bay not know that this is a movie based on a childrens toy. Hollywood still doesn't get it, you can do just as good if the story is solid and the characters are well developed(The Sixth Sense,T2, I Am Legend), just to name a few. Maybe none of these movies excited you, but go back and look at the money that was made. You can even see it in the animated movies these days, or how about the animated shows, Family Guy or Simpsons. This is the times we live in, where women are portrayed as objects of our(men) desires. They have no value we can treat them as sex toys and lust over them. The saddest thing is that the young ladies of this world have bought into it. They think the only value they have is how much can I turn these men on. For the men out there who have maybe never thought about it....These girls are someones daughter and future wife, my question to you is...Would you want your daughter or wife to be the object of some mans sick perverted thoughts? As a husband and father of four daughters, I would die to protect them and love for nothing more but on their wedding day to give away a bride in a white gown(purity) to the man of her dreams.
Anyways big tangent from a blog about a movie. I just think we need more wholesome movies that give our children something better for them to aspire for. Girls don't sell yourself short you are more than a piece of meat and boys treat women like they are worth more, then they will follow and aspire to be more.
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