It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Is Anything Ever New? Or will Hollywood keep playing out these same fantasies until I go mad?



A 21 year old and a 63 year old making out. Realistic? No way. Moviemaking bullshit. You bet.

Who are these films being made for? Whose fantasies are being lived out? I have loved so many of Kingley's films...but today Im just fucking annoyed.

See the yahoo news excerpt below.

NEW YORK - Brace yourself: In her upcoming movie, Mary-Kate Olsen locks lips with Ben Kingsley. Yes, the one-time adorable tyke turned teenage titan, and Gandhi. Not surprisingly, the film's a comedy. Olsen is now 21. Kingsley is 63. Their film, "The Wackness," is slated for release next year.

"There is a very passionate scene in the film, which we filmed last week," Kingsley, who won the best-actor Oscar for 1982's "Gandhi," tells the syndicated TV show "Access Hollywood" in an interview scheduled to air Wednesday.

"It went extremely well and she was very focused. She was very good, very professional. She was quite wonderful."

When asked if he thinks the scene will stir up controversy, Kingsley says: "I'm sure it will. (Her character) is this great free spirit, you know, she is equally seducing so it is a level playing field."

1 Comments:

At 9:59 PM, Blogger Devin said...

Wow, and I thought Kingsley's romance with Tea Leoni in "You Kill Me" was far-fetched.

 

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