“WILD THINGS” 1998 | M/16 | 1h48’ [US] | NASTY TEEN MOVIES Cinema Screenings
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### Ciclo NASTY TEEN MOVIES
[NASTY TEEN MOVIES Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Aluísio Leite)
“WILD THINGS” 1998 | M/16 | 1h48’ [US] (Ligações Selvagens - PT)
De John McNaughton
Sexta Dia 20/02 às 19h30 [Friday 02/20 at 7:30pm]
Um detetive da polícia descobre uma conspiração por detrás de um caso que envolve um orientador escolar, quando duas alunas o acusam de violação.
A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.
Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese
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American teen movies became very popular with the success of several John Hughes titles in the 80s (such as "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"), and maintained their popularity throughout the 1990s (with a renewed focus on the horror genre after the success of Wes Craven's "Scream" in 1996). If not horror, most of these teen movies were raunchy sex comedies ("American Pie", etc.) or vanilla romantic comedies ("She's All That," etc.). But very few were actually "nasty" and realistic in their depiction of high school and adolescence. The two movies in this cycle - John McNaughton's "Wild Things" (1998) and Roger Kumble's "Cruel Intentions" (1999) - are far from your standard teen movies from that period.
WILD THINGS is part of the "erotic thriller" subgenre that was also very popular in the 80s and 90s ("Body Heat," "Fatal Attraction," "Basic Instinct," "Disclosure," "The Last Seduction," etc). It stood out for its setting - a sex scandal in a Florida high school, where two 18-year-old girls (Neve Campbell and Denise Richards) accuse their guidance counselor (Matt Dillon) of rape. Of course, nothing is what it seems, and the twists are as clever as they're outrageous.
CRUEL INTENTIONS is a terrific update on Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," which had been adapted by Roger Vadim, Stephen Frears and Milos Forman before (Frears' 1988 "Dangerous Liaisons" remains the most acclaimed adaptation, and deservingly so). Transfering the action from 18th century France to the world of extremely wealthy and privileged teens in contemporary New York City, the film retains the bite and pathos of the source novel, and is much more emotionally complex and honest than most teen movies of that, or any, time.
These are movies that would likely not get made by a major studio today, given their total disregard for political correctness, but they beg me to ask: MAKE TEEN MOVIES NASTY AGAIN!
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
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