Dakota Fanning has spoken out about the controversy over Hounddog. She and the head of Sundance defend the film from protesters who call it child porn. Ok, I want you to imagine these quotes being said in an annoyed and frustrated Dakota Fanning voice. The kind of voice a kid would use if you tease them too much about something you know isn’t true.

“It’s not a rape movie. That’s not even the point of the film. When it gets to the point of attacking my mother, my agent … my teacher, who were all on the set that day, that started to make me mad.”

People, people. It’s not kiddie rape porn, “it’s called acting.” Sadly, I was bored enough to listen to the video they had on the site and it sounds like she’s hitting puberty. I can’t seem to hear the full nails on chalkboard effect of her high-pitched voice anymore. Now what makes her unique? Oh right, the kiddie rape porn thing.

Dakota Fanning’s controversial Hounddog debuted at Sundance today. The movie is most widely known as the film where Dakota Fanning is raped. The Catholic League called for a federal probe this month to determine whether the film breaks child pornography laws.

In the rape scene, only Fanning’s face, neck, shoulders, hand and foot appear onscreen. Much of the rape is depicted in darkness with flashes of lightning and the sound of Lewellen screaming “stop it, stop it.”

Kampmeier told Reuters that the scene onscreen is exactly how the film was shot on a closed set with a limited crew.

“It’s important for people to remember that when you are crafting a film, you are putting images next to each other. It’s not like we had Dakota acting out the rape, we didn’t,” she said. “Dakota and I were there together.”

Fanning said the scene was blown out of proportion and preparing for it wasn’t different from anything else she’s done. What does this mean for viewers? The god awful Dakota Fanning scream will make its return. Please make it stop! AICN has a more detailed review of it if you’d like to read.

Back in July, it was reported that Dakota Fanning would go for Oscar gold in her upcoming movie Hounddog where she plays a motherless Elvis loving child of the 50′s. In an article published by Premiere magazine, more details of the movie have come out. There is still a rape scene, she promises to kiss a boy if he drops his pants, sleeps next to a naked man and forces two kids to strip and hug at gunpoint while she wraps a snake around them. But the scene causing the biggest uproar is the rape of Dakota Fanning by an older boy who tempts her with Elvis tickets. The director had this to say about it,

Exactly how I was going to film the rape scene was articulated quite specifically in the script, and her mother, her agent, and her teacher/child welfare worker were all present for the filming of the scene, which was carried out exactly as we discussed it. There was so much I had to hide [during filming]. I had to hid the fact that this girl is not naked. I had to hide the fact that there is not a boy on top of this girl having sex. One of the choices I made as a director is, I shot her face. I didn’t shoot flesh against flesh, his leg touching her leg; I shot her face because I wanted to capture a soul going through this experience, not a body. The assumption that [Dakota] was violated in order to give this performance denies her talent.

The protesters make it sound like she’s going to be raped live on camera. God it’s only pretend rape. I’d be more offended if she WASN’T raped. I think that came out wrong. No, no it didn’t. I bet Roman Polanski wishes he thought of this first.