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Ex-FLDS bride's book to be made into a movie
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former flds | 10:02 a.m. May 29, 2008
wow i had no idea hollywood was in such desperate times for new ideas
Gal50 | 10:05 a.m. May 29, 2008
Congratulations to Elissa Wall. It's wonderful when a crime victim can turn
her experience into something positive.
Bruce | 10:15 a.m. May 29, 2008
Lets see: She didn't even know how a marriage was consumated but in her
depression, she went out and got pregnant by another man that was older than her
husband. Hmmm.
Yep, sounds like a morally upright person to me.
For all that believe her, please call...I've got a bridge for sale.
Yep, sounds like a morally upright person to me.
For all that believe her, please call...I've got a bridge for sale.
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Oh, great! | 11:52 a.m. May 29, 2008
This is all we need--another Hollywood version of life. It will be about as
accurate as any other of their productions.
Good for Elissa | 12:06 p.m. May 29, 2008
You people who bash her for finding someone she actually loves and wants to be
with appall me. Who cares if he was older than her first husband. What her
arranged husband did to her is disgusting.
Michigander | 12:06 p.m. May 29, 2008
Sure, after she got raped by her unwanted, assigned husband she knew where
babies came from.
Be glad she has a normal life now.
Be glad she has a normal life now.
Anonymous | 12:28 p.m. May 29, 2008
That's just what movie-goers want to see. A young girl being raped by an
older man. What will this movie prove, and who, besides perverts, will want to
watch it?? Hollywood is disgusting.
7 brides for 7 brothers? | 12:39 p.m. May 29, 2008
Maybe we could call it "7 Brides for 7 Brothers"?
Sounds like it would be a cool movie! Watch out Indiana Jones!
Sounds like it would be a cool movie! Watch out Indiana Jones!
Hateful FLDS - Bruce | 1:15 p.m. May 29, 2008
"Lets see: She didn't even know how a marriage was consumated but in
her depression, she went out and got pregnant by another man that was older than
her husband... Yep, sounds like a morally upright person to me."
It's difficult to fathom the depravity in the mind of someone who condones the forced marriage and rape of a 14-year-old girl and the practice of fathering dozens of children with multiple women that you're not legally married to (polygamy), and then having the utter hypocrisy to question the morality of the raped girl for having an out-of-wedlock child.
Maybe after being raped and abused by her "husband", she had a spiritual awakening and decided to have a relationship with someone that she really cared about.
It's difficult to fathom the depravity in the mind of someone who condones the forced marriage and rape of a 14-year-old girl and the practice of fathering dozens of children with multiple women that you're not legally married to (polygamy), and then having the utter hypocrisy to question the morality of the raped girl for having an out-of-wedlock child.
Maybe after being raped and abused by her "husband", she had a spiritual awakening and decided to have a relationship with someone that she really cared about.
Stranger Than Fiction | 1:22 p.m. May 29, 2008
Like it or not, Elissa's story is a compelling one--so why wouldn't
they want to make a movie about it? Maybe all this attention will shed some
light into the FLDS closets and the skeletons will finally be exposed. Elissa
is a brave survivor and anyone that says any differently needs to have their
brain un-washed!
Re: Bruce | 2:07 p.m. May 29, 2008
hmmm, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the ultimate immoral act for
an FLDS man would be for an FLDS woman to have more than one man.
A certain serial pedophile masquerading as a prophet would never approve a such an immoral arrangement.
A certain serial pedophile masquerading as a prophet would never approve a such an immoral arrangement.
Old Geezer in Vegas | 2:36 p.m. May 29, 2008
The phone call that started this mess was made to an anti-polygamy activist
Flora Jessop supposedly on a telephone line that didn�t
have caller ID. The call looks like a hoax even though the Texas CPS
hasn�t admitted it yet. Now it seems that about that time,
Flora Jessop�s sister, Carolyn Jessop was getting her
paperback edition of her book, Escape, into print. Flora is reported to be the
inside informant for the sheriff that was intent on getting something on the
FLDS, even though she�d never been to the ranch.
Elissa Wall writes a supposedly �tell all� book about the FLDS and then gets a movie deal on the book. It just turns out that this is happening at the same time as the raid.
Flora and Carolyn, along with Elissa Wall are now raking in big bucks for their interviews on TV.
Somehow it still doesn�t pass the smell test with me!!
Elissa Wall writes a supposedly �tell all� book about the FLDS and then gets a movie deal on the book. It just turns out that this is happening at the same time as the raid.
Flora and Carolyn, along with Elissa Wall are now raking in big bucks for their interviews on TV.
Somehow it still doesn�t pass the smell test with me!!
Smell test | 2:56 p.m. May 29, 2008
What doesn't pass the smell test is that 14-year-old girls want to be
married to old geezers.
Old Geezer in Vegas | 3:58 p.m. May 29, 2008
Elissa Wall who wrote the book just out and is going to make a movie about it,
didn�t marry �an old
geezer� when she was 14, she married a 19 year old guy!!!
Catherine Jefferson | 5:45 p.m. May 29, 2008
| Bruce said:
| Lets see: She didn't even know how a marriage was
| consumated but in her depression, she went out and
| got pregnant by another man that was older than her
| husband. Hmmm.
At 14 years of age, Wall said she didn't know how a marriage was consummated. Three or four years later, after the reported rapes and a lot else, she said she got involved with the man she's currently married to.
I don't see any contradiction in that. Were you unaware of the timeline, perhaps?
| Lets see: She didn't even know how a marriage was
| consumated but in her depression, she went out and
| got pregnant by another man that was older than her
| husband. Hmmm.
At 14 years of age, Wall said she didn't know how a marriage was consummated. Three or four years later, after the reported rapes and a lot else, she said she got involved with the man she's currently married to.
I don't see any contradiction in that. Were you unaware of the timeline, perhaps?
John Lambert | 7:52 p.m. May 29, 2008
Either you take issue with teenagers having sex with men significantly older
then them or you don't. It appears her relations with the other man were
more clearly a case of statutory rape than her marriage to her 19-year-old
cousin. Statutory rape is based on the notion that girls her age can not
consent to sex. Some of the people around here clearly either do not understnad
the law or feel the law should only be applied in limited cases.
John Lambert | 7:55 p.m. May 29, 2008
I for one do not want to see a movie about sexual attacks on innocent
children. It is bad enough it goes on, there is no reason to make it into a
movie.
Anonymous | 8:58 p.m. May 29, 2008
I am glad this is becoming a movie.
I for one will love to see it because it is about someones who was born into a life of depravity and abuse who survives because of her own inner strength and the help of a few good souls around her.
I hope we can all have positive experiences after difficult life situations like this.
I for one will love to see it because it is about someones who was born into a life of depravity and abuse who survives because of her own inner strength and the help of a few good souls around her.
I hope we can all have positive experiences after difficult life situations like this.
MaidInCalifornia | 9:33 a.m. June 4, 2008
Although her book is well-written (by a ghost writer!) the sympathy Elissa Wall
seems to be hoping for just falls flat when studied carefully. She appears to
be blaming the religion for her (and her family's) ignorance and lack of
guts to just leave the whole mess behind! If someone proclaimed that I was to
be separated forever from my family, it would be an immediate departure for me.
Many children all over the world and in many different circumstances suffer from
oppression & abuse from their parents, teachers, preachers etc., but still
find the courage to pull themselves up and stand on their own. The "Pity
Party" described in this book just doesn't cut it with me.
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