Tragedy Porn: Why Fake Misery When You Can Get The Real Stuff?
November 19, 2009 No Comments
Kidnapped at age 11 and missing for 18 years, the story of Jaycee Dugard is one that terrified parents across the world.
During her time in captivity she was repeatedly raped by her captors and bore them two children.
To some this sounds like a tragedy but to Shane Ryan it sounds like the plot of a porno.
He wants to make a movie about her life called Abducted Girl: An American Sex Slave. It will sit alongside his other films: Warning!!! Pedophile Released, Amateur Porn Star Killer, Caged Lesbos A-Go-Go and Vaginal Holocaust.
“We want to capture how sad this story is, but also how interesting,” he said.
“We’re trying to figure out a way to do that so it’s not exploitative.”
The spokeswoman for the family called the plan “exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind.”
Shane knows his audience. If people like to fantasize about a child being kidnapped and repeated raped while being made a sex-slave to a religious nut, then the idea of the real thing must be that much more titillating.
The problem with the line between fantasy and fiction is that the audience generally wants it blurred, if not erased.
