Disappointed in Christina Ricci Lately #2: She’s Still Pissed About “Black Snake Moan”

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008
Author: Susan
Tags: Christina Ricci

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I don’t know who asked her, but apparently Christina Ricci is still “bitter over the promotional images her 2007 film Black Snake Moan...saying that it ‘exploited’ women,” according to a celebrity news wire that nobody picked up. So, I shall do the honors.  The wire continues to report:

“The 28-year-old actress says that although she enjoyed making the film, the movie poster, in which she appears scantily-clad at the end of a chain held by co-star Samuel L. Jackson, is one of the most ‘disappointing and upsetting things’ that has happened to her showbiz career.”

Ricci snapped, "The whole reason I made that movie was to say, 'Oh yeah, that girl you called a slut probably went through this, so you might not want to use her and throw her away or judge her.  [But] all they [marketing bosses] cared about was college-age boys going to see it.”

Yeah, well?  Here’s the story: ex-blues musician Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) finds Rae (Ricci), a young nymphomaniac, badly beaten on the road; he brings her inside his house and chains her to his radiator, and spends the rest of the movie watching her writhe in pain in order to cure her of her loose ways through his own brand of twisted spiritual cleansing. 

Give me a break – Christina Ricci had to have known, scene after scene, as they shot the movie that a gang-load of horny college boys were going to build a bunch of dungeons under their dorm rooms because she sure looked good half-naked and all beaten-up in chains and stuff.

If this movie doesn’t sound like torture porn, call me crazy. Or better yet, just pour blood over my face, push me down a fight of stairs, and laugh.