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Offline BoyScoutKevin

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2015, 12:34:35 AM »
For all the abuse he is believed to have received from his father, who is also believed to have abused his wife, Ken's mother, and Ken's younger brother, only once in his theatrical films, in "Mahler," does he show a parent who is abusive.

Dead children

Besides . . .

Salome's Last Dance
Lair of the White Worm

Also . . .

Mahler
Tommy
Gothic

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2015, 07:32:07 PM »
Children
Boys: 9 (83%)
Girls: 2 (17%)
Total 11

Abused
Yes: 7 (64%)
No: 4 (36%)
Total: 11

Children abused
Boys: 6 (86%)
Girls: 1 (14%)
Total: 7

Abusers
Strangers: 2 (17%)
Stepparent: 1 (8%)
Someone known: 6 (50%)
Relation: 2 (17%)
Parent: 1 (8%)
Total: 12

Abusive acts
M/E: 6 (40%)
P: 5 (33%)
S: 4 (27%)
Total: 15

Children abused by more than 1 type of abuse
Yes: 5 (70%)
No: 2 (30%)
Total: 7

Children abused by more than 1 abuser
Yes: 4 (57%)
No: 3 (43%)
Total 7

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2015, 10:24:55 PM »
Continuing . . .

Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Kevin (Chris Pitt)
M/E: Sylvia
P: Sylvia
S: Sylvia

The Rainbow (1989)
Schoolboy (Paul Reynolds)
P: the teacher

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2015, 11:05:59 PM »
Continuing . . .

Altered States (1980)
Margaret Jessup (Drew Barrymore)
No

Salome's Last Dance (1988)
Pageboy (Russell Lee Nash)
M/E: the sexual hot house conditions under which he lives and works
S: Wilde

Salome/Rose (Imogen Millais-Scott)
M/E: the sexual hot house conditions under which she lives and works
P: the workers at the whorehouse

Unlike most of the children in the films, who are victims of sexual abuse, from what John the Baptist/Bosey says, she may have been a sexual abuser, who abused him.

To be continued . . .

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2015, 09:29:55 PM »
Continuing . . .

Mahler (1974)
Young Mahler (Gary Rich)
M/E: his peers
M/E: his father
P: his father

The boy in the sailor suit at the train station (Unknown)
No

One of the more interesting scenes in Ken's films, if only, because it does not seem to work, at least for me. Is that because it's . . .
a. Unoriginal. Copying a scene from "Death in Venice" (1971)
b. Less bold than that scene and many of Ken's other scenes.
c. Both of the above.
d. Neither of the above. Some other reason.

Tommy (1975)
Young Tommy (Barry Winch)
M/E: his stepfather
P: his cousin
S: his uncle

When did Tommy chronologically leave childhood and reach adulthood? Still, he seemingly remains a child, emotionally, through out the film.

To be continued . . .

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2015, 10:18:27 PM »
The Music Lovers
the Von Meck Twins (Dennis and John Myers)
No

The Devils
the king's pageboy/catamite (Unknown)
S: the king

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2015, 10:13:30 PM »
Extras
None
(or, at least I don't remember any child abuse occurring in the film.)

Women in Love
Savage Messiah

Some

M/E
the blindfolded boys and girls being led astray by Wagner who has arisen as Frankenstein's Monster.
And hindsight being 20/20, thus as Hitler would lead the boys and girls of Germany astray in the next century.

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Re: Ken and His Children
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2015, 07:21:30 PM »
Unseen
French Dressing
Crimes of Passion
Whore
Trapped Ashes

No (or, at least, I remember no children appearing in these films)
Billion Dollar Brain
The Boyfriend
Valentino
Gothic (no living child)
Aria

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Ken and His Children
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2015, 10:27:06 PM »
Not his own children with whom he seemed to have a good relationship--for the most part.
Nor the young actors and actresses he worked with in his theatrical films.
But . . .?! the characters that are children in his theatrical films.

Introduction and definitions

Abuse
While some of the incidents to be mentioned are clearly abusive, others might be questionable as abuse. I included them, because if they happened in real life, instead of a fictional film, they'd make me uncomfortable.

Abuse (types)
S=sexual
P=physical
E/M=emotional/mental

Children
A character that is 18 or under, or, at least I believe is 18 or under. Of course, some of the actors and actresses playing these characters are over 18.

Extras
While some of the child characters are seen as extras in the films, I have, for the most part, ignored these to concentrate on individual characters. Unless, I can remember no individual characters, then the extras are included.

No
No children in the film. At least, I do not remember any children appearing in the film.

None
No child abuse in the film. At least, I do not remember any children being abused in the film.

Unseen
Theatrical films of Ken, which I have yet to see.

Next time: unseen and no.