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Jonathan Ross's wife Jane Goldman causes outrage with film featuring a foul-mouthed 11-year-old assassin
By Anny Shaw
Last updated at 1:20 PM on 28th February 2010Jonathan Ross's wife has caused outrage with a film she has written featuring a foul-mouthed 11-year-old assassin.
Critics are concerned Jane Goldman's film Kick-Ass, which will carry a 15 certificate, blurs the lines between adult and child entertainment.
One of the characters in the film is an 11-year-old girl called Hit-Girl who slices people's legs off and shoots bullets through a man's cheek.
Jane Goldman has caused outrage with a film she has written featuring a foul-mouthed 11-year-old assassin called Hit-Girl
Chloe Moretz, the 13-year-old American actress who plays the role of the young serial killer screams at her victims: 'Okay, you c****, let's see what you can do now.'
In another scene the character tells her vigilante father that she wants a puppy for her birthday.
Jonathan Ross and Jane Goldman: One of the characters is an 11-year-old girl who slices people's legs off
When he looks surprised she says: 'I%u2019m just f****** with you, Daddy,' and asks for a razor-sharp knife instead.
The film's extreme violence has earned it comparisons with the work of Quentin Tarrantino.
Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at Kent University, criticised the film industry for not distinguishing between what is suitable for children and adults.
'This promotes the idea that infantilising adulthood is okay and that we are no longer expected to draw lines between us and kids,' he told the Sunday Times.
Kick-Ass, which is out in April, has already sparked a number of complaints in the U.S. after children were allowed to access violent trailers of the film online.
'These particular trailers are even worse than normal because they depict a child and so are more interesting to a child,' Nell Minow, a lawyer and one of the complainants, told The New York Times last week.
'Isn%u2019t there a limit to what we can ask children to do on screen?'
The film is based on a comic book series that is advertised with the slogan 'sickening violence: just the way you like it'.
Outrage over the film comes as a Government report last week highlighted the unsuitable images to which children are routinely exposed.
Aaron Johnson stars as Kick-Ass, an ordinary American teenage boy who decides to turn himself into a superhero
The report condemned the exposure of children to pornography and violence, and called for stricter controls on the increased use of 'sexualised imagery' in advertising.
Jonathan Ross was widely criticised in October 2008 after he and the comedian Russell Brand made obscene calls to Andrew Sachs, the former Fawlty Towers actor.
Goldman met Ross when she was a young newspaper columnist and married him when she was just 18 before going on to forge a successful career as a television presenter, author and screenwriter.
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