Prince of Swine’s creator responds to the controversy:

If you don’t get the joke it’s because you are the joke.  If anything we erred on the side of making it too obvious because we didn’t want to have it misunderstood.  Male or female, you really have to try to deliberately misunderstand the movie, you have to not want to understand it because of what it says about you.

Women have a dark side just like men, we’re perfectly balanced like that, not to believe that is sexist.  If you’re afraid to look at that dark side, that’s on you, that’s not respecting women, that’s just ignorance, cowardice and hypocrisy.  If you’re not wary of the part of women that can misbehave, you don’t know what it is.  If you think women are always victims, then you don’t really respect them or think they’re capable of power or morality, or respect it when they are moral and real feminists.  There’s a difference between being sensitive and being pussy whipped.  If you’re afraid to tell women when they’re in the wrong, that’s not respect, that’s just being a fork-tongued pussy.  I adore real feminists, I worship them.  The only thing that pisses me off is they’re so goddamn rare.

You don’t have to tell me this stance is going to cost me sex, but good God, at some point you just blurt out, in spite of yourself, enough is enough.  Amazingly, some women are self-critical enough to break out laughing when you point it out and admit the movement has gone astray.  Believe it or not all of the women I work with consider themselves feminists, I won’t work with anything but a real feminist.  They give the lie to the “humorless feminist” stereotype, but clichés are clichés for a reason – I can assure you the cliché of the humorless feminist is alive and well and most of them are puttin’ arrows in my back.  This older generation of feminists, man, they really don’t get it.  They are no friend to American men, and the victim act is getting a little old.

Half of the women in the country are saying the same thing, half of the feminists are saying the same thing, that half the women in this country are making a mockery out of feminism, but when I say it I’m a misogynist pig . . . I think we’re having a real failure to communicate between the sexes in this country, and it’s time for some real heated honesty, even if it gets a little ugly.

How can you caricature Hollywood?  It’s so utterly ridiculous, banal and w/o taste it’s beyond caricature.  My movie is not a caricature, it’s a documentary.  It’s supposed to look like a cross between 70’s porn and those decade under the influence 70’s movies, that retro look is intentional, it’s an homage to those movies, that neon gritty street look, that’s the real Hollywood, and that was the last time Hollywood had anything to say before it got taken over by the beancounters.  One of these beancounting morons ripped the look of it – he’s been raised on nothing but computer generated formulaic shit, wouldn’t recognize something original if it came up and bit ‘em in the ass.  They don’t want something original or thoughtful, they want a derivative knock-off of some other piece of crap that has sold. I make movies for adults, not kiddie porn for children, if they think that’s un-professional it’s because their profession is pimping teenagers.

Any man who’s going to have power in this country, part of his education should be that he be poor and powerless for a long period in his life.  You get a good long look in the difference that makes to 95% of women – you might forgive them when you get power, but you’ll never forget.  You’re like a fat girl who’s lost weight and suddenly she’s the belle of the ball, but she knows what’s in most men’s minds now.  Hopefully it won’t make her misanthropic, but she definitely takes appearances with a grain of salt now and has a real eye and contempt for phonies and hypocrites.

I’m not a stick up your ass, mealy-mouthed liberal, I’m a liberal with a pair of balls, a vanishing breed these days I might add.


  
 
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SYNOPSIS

Prince of Swine is a wild and revolutionary new comedy, a metaphor for the state of the country, and a rowdy send up of everything from the new feminism to Wall Street to the American religion of celebrity.

When Jiggle King Jerry Farber gropes a dimwitted B-movie starlet then fires her from his latest T & A extravaganza, an idealistic young attorney vows to bring him down and make him pay for the cruelty of swine everywhere. To do so she must make a deal with the Devil and get in bed with her new boss, another Prince of Swine who detests everything she stands for.

DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY
People ask me what the movie's about, I just say, "It's about 100 minutes." We were protested by the lunatic fringe on both the left (militant feminists) and right (the anti-gay marriage people) basically for having a healthy sex life. It was the happiest day of my life, figured, if we were p'ing them off, we must be doing something right. The middle 90% of Americans seem to enjoy it.

"Jerry Farber is a metaphor for the corruption on Wall Street right now, as Prince of Swine is a metaphor for the country as a whole. We're on the brink of revolutionary change, economically, militarily, every which way . . . "

The iconic French filmmaker Godard was hitting on my ex-girlfriend once and said to her, "With ceen-ema, when eet ees right . . . the entire universe ees reflected een eets arc. What do you say, baby? Let's go back to my place." Godard, as it turns out, was full of crap and a lousy lay to boot (I fell for that line too) but that's actually true of my film.
Katherine Bigelow won the Oscar because she understands the male mind and adores men, that's what all her movies are about. She draws power from that, it makes men love her, and it also makes her strong and a warrior and a real feminist, not this phony golddigging new breed. I mean, even if you consider men the enemy - you have to know your enemies better than your friends, and this new breed just doesn't, they don't have a clue. Do you think its women who went to see the Hurt Locker? Hell no, it's men! The women were all at Sex and the City 2 or some other drivel! That whole Mr. Big fantasy . . . someone really ought

to tell those women, "Mr. Big is never going to marry you. Mr. Big is hiring a hooker and beating her, because the hooker reminds him of you. It's as offensive to men, rich and poor, as the Playboy Bunny fantasy was to Steinem in the 60's. Feminist means the opposite of golddigger to me. That's what it's always meant and that's what it's supposed to mean. None of this having it both ways. You're either a feminist and have our respect, or you're not, and you don't.

  
 


         
                 (THE LONDON TIMES)    August 22, 2008
Sex and the Olympic City


" . . . Before we get to that, however, it is worth noting an intriguing dichotomy between the sexes in respect of all this coupling. The chaps who win gold medals - even those as geeky as Michael Phelps - are the principal objects of desire for many female athletes. There is something about sporting success that makes a certain type of woman go crazy - smiling, flirting and sometimes even grabbing at the chaps who have done the business in the pool or on the track. An Olympic gold medal is not merely a route to fame and fortune; it is also a surefire ticket to writhe.

But - and this is the thing - success does not work both ways. Gold-medal winning female athletes are not looked upon by male athletes with any more desire than those who flunked out in the first round. It is sometimes even considered a defect, as if there is something downright unfeminine about all that striving, fist pumping and incontinent sweating. Sport, in this respect, is a reflection of wider society, where male success is a universal desirable whereas female success is sexually ambiguous. I do not condone this phenomenon, merely note it."

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