Anybody touches Lupita I kick his ass & twelve other asses that look like his! "What do I wish? I wish . . . you had . . . more time."

To me, scenes like that can happen without needing to be explicit on the screne.

They're exploiting this girl for a sensational moment to help sell the film, either financially or critically. And her parents must think it will make her career or something. Her life and how people will look at her will likely not be the same for years.

I mean just the fact that this will become source material for pedophiles is distrubing in itself.

"The two taboos in Hollywood are child abuse and the killing of animals," a source close to the situation told me. "In this movie, both things happen."

It'll get an Oscar... if they do it.

Putting something in a movie that's shocking and makes you squirm (mainly just for the sake of doing it) is the surefire shortcut to Oscar winners (Brokeback Mountain anyone?)

The sad part, is that my cynical response is probably closer to the truth than I care to think about.

whats disturbing is not dakotas rape scene but that little girls get raped everyday. if there was as much an uproar about that, maybe it would stop.

1st Brokeback Mountain now this sht... Hollywood is going too far! Why do they feel it needed to be so graphic with the subject visually/physically? For example, in A Time To Kill there were no nude/physical rape scenes in that movie, but you knew the little girl got raped. What's next? This scene is unnecessary and just disturbing!

True this does happen around the world and needs to stop but it doesnt need to be shown on film. I am pretty sure that if the movie is good it doesnt need the rape or nudity, and if it is bad then it shouldnt be made. Also as far as I know showing anyone under the age of 18 naked let alone raped is illegal. I dont understand how they can get by that law. Finally the natural instinct of a mother should be to keep her child from being raped at all costs not film it and try to make a quick buck. There must be somthing seriously wrong with her mother if she is ok with this. The whole situation as far as I know is extremely disturbing.

cant believe her mom is making her do a film like this! shes only concerned about herself, not the welfare of her daughter,

gd luck dakota, hope it doesnt tarnnish your reputation or career......or yourself ;)

Ally: If showing graphic crimes of murder, rape and child molestation in films could stop this things, they would have gone away a long time ago. Instead, since pornography and graphic violence has been legalized in films, those crimes have compounded dramatically. You can't cure depravity with more depravity.

John Doe: There ARE laws that cover these things. First, however, you have to find a prosecutor with enough guts to take on Hollywood in what would probably become a landmark case.

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I think that it's great that Dakota is taking her acting to the next level but these graphic scenes may be a bit much for such a young girl, not for a 15-year-old actress but for her yes. She is mature and acts older than her age but i think she has been robbed of her childhood by doing acting. Acting is great as she says but she hasn't had a normal childhood at all! Her agent needs to get a grip and save the rape scenes for when Dakota is much older! I love Dakota alot and don't want her getting hurt by what the media has to say about this film. Stick to film's like Dreamer Dakota until you're older! -ANTHEA #1 fan

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What about the Sean Penn starring, Clint Eastwood directed Mystic River which depicts the violent rape and brutalization of a young boy. Where were the detractors then?

If you don't like the subject matter of the movie, don't go see it. I believe that our first amendment permits people to have a freedom of speech and expression and in no place at all does it say that everyone has to agree with that particular expression. If you don't like watching stories on the news of abused dogs and cats, don't watch those stories... I don't. If you don't care for Jerry Springer, don't watch the show... I don't. If depicting something on screen that happens every day in the real world that we live in is considered "wrong"... then we need to seriously look at our own actions and not complain so much about some hollywood movie that will probably clean up come award season.