If they'd somehow depicted The Little Mermaid with bloody feet or killing herself and becoming sea foam, you might have a point. But those things wouldn't be sexy, would they? These photos have nothing to do with the original stories, thus your point is moot.
It's disturbing because rather than taking on the content of the actual fairy tales, they just took a woman dressed as each princess, made her lie face down on the floor, and pulled up her skirt. They all look like rape victims, and it's clear that it was done to be titillating. THAT'S what's gross about it. There are plenty of interesting things you could do with the roots of fairy tales, but this is not one of them.
It's true that the originals were gory and disturbing, but I've read many of them. Cinderella and The Little Mermaid, for example, are plenty violent but not sexual in nature. If the point of the photoshoot was to do modern takes on the original fairy tales, that would be one thing, but that's clearly not the intention here.
I thought of that ANTM shoot immediately, too. If ANTM has done it, it's officially not edgy or clever.
Exactly. The skirts being hiked up around every single girl's waist really bothers me.
I'm glad images of women who have apparently been raped and murdered are "fun" for you.
Yeah, that is not okay. Especially the way nearly all of them are positioned with their skirts hiked up around their legs. Some of the original fairy tales (like Red Riding Hood and Beauty and the Beast) have sexual overtones to them to begin with, but this is just disturbing.
If you liked Winter's Bone, you'll like The Hunger Games. Different situation but Katniss is basically the same character.
The exception being Rue, who looks her age (12). But most of the other kids look much older.
Movie ratings =/= book categorizations. I've seen everything from Stephen King to V.C. Andrews to Shakespeare shelved under YA. Lots of that material would not be considered PG-13 when made into a movie. Also consider that "young adult" includes books for 12-year-olds and books for 18-year-olds. The Hunger Games definitely fall towards the older end of that spectrum. Many younger teens have read and enjoyed the books, but I usually recommend them to older teens because of the level of violence.
What??? You mean The Hunger Games is not the first book or movie in history to feature teens fighting to the death?!
I'm kind of hoping that after the first one they'll change their minds and go for the R, if only so that by the time Finnick and Johanna are introduced they can be in all their naked glory.
BUTTERCUUUUP!
NO THANK YOU.
I remember watching the first movie on VHS and I was absolutely terrified. I don't need a reason to be even more scared by that movie series.
Oh, Maisie Williams is fantastic. Love her!
I'm not missing it at all. I take issue with the implication that because she's openly sexual (as opposed to the idea in Westeros that women should be maidens or mothers or crones), that she's a slut or needs to dress "slutty". Melisandre's sexuality is certainly a big part of her character, but that doesn't mean she has to wear revealing clothing, and it's also not a bad thing.
Yes, exactly. She has a definite sexuality to her but as I recall she's physically pretty covered up most of the time.
I can't WAIT to see Ygritte and Asha. (She will always be Asha in my head.)
I can't wait to see her next to Renly. She's going to make him look like a little boy. I think she's going to be fantastic!
That's a fair point, especially since many people seem to avoid her because she's so obviously different. But I think the way she looks in this photo is mysterious and sultry and definitely very different than the other women in Westeros. I also think that as the series progresses, her appearance will change as she becomes more powerful.
Judging by the comments here, it seems like a lot of people just expect her to be eye candy, and that bothers me. It's not like she's even described wearing particularly revealing clothes in the books, but apparently people have decided that she should dress that way just because she has obvious sex appeal.
