Emma Frost would have to be R-rated
Saturday, December 4th, 2010If Emma Frost were in a movie, it would have to be R-rated, says io9.com.
From io9.com:
I don’t think there’s a chance that a movie about Emma Frost could be made without an R rating. Even with an R rating, I’d be reluctant to go see it, because I don’t think it would earn its R. There are a lot of stories about a bad girl gone good, and they’re mostly terrible. A sexy lady vamps here way around a villainous world, but never actually has sex with any villains. She talks about the bad things she’s done, but doesn’t do anything that bad. She gets an assignment she refuses — to blow up a bus full of nuns, or even better, to kill a kid. Instead she takes the kid under her wing, and by the end we can see she has a heart under her tough exterior.
That’s not Emma Frost. Emma Frost goes from evil to good, not bad to nice, and the R rating should reflect that. When she’s a villain, she needs to really be a villain. Her actions in that part of the movie alone should earn the R. When she’s a hero, she needs to still be the person she was before. What makes Emma admirable is her unsentimental pragmatism, especially when it comes to beauty and sexuality. She shouldn’t vamp around. If she wants someone, she should have them. If she doesn’t, she should use her sexuality to eviscerate them. Either one should be awful and uncomfortable to watch, not titillating, the way most movies do it. If it’s done right, there shouldn’t be a single nude scene, stripping scene, or sex scene in the film, and yet the movie should barely escape an NC-17 rating. This character should be scary.
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