She once told an interviewer: "Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus moved me hugely when I was 14, with its themes of exploitation, courageous revolt and the heroism of the slave uprising".
Another type of film-maker in the Anglo-Saxon journalist tradition might have decided at this point to discuss the darker themes of exploitation, maybe bringing in the Bulger case (itself partly triggered by a horror movie called Child's Play 3).
Why do sites with graphic rape simulations and themes of exploitation seem to thrive online, and what, if anything, do they say about gay culture?
Not to be ignored was the underlying theme of child exploitation -- Lili is constantly referred to as a child by her male predators -- with a subtle but present sexual subtext.
A couple of the movies have lingered a little on the sultry, Creole ancestry of Rochester's first wife, Bertha Mason, and on a theme of colonial exploitation, but so far the one truly ground-breaking version is John Duigan's 1993 film of "Wide Sargasso Sea," the Jean Rhys novel that tells the story from the point of view of Bertha, the madwoman locked in the attic.
The film, which uses a largely Tibetan cast to drive home the Party's themes of class exploitation and ethnic solidarity, opened with a "Star Wars -style rolling title screen that says: "This is a heart-rending story of serfs and also a denunciation by a million Tibetan serfs of a bygone system.
Even rollicking genre fare like "Orphan Black," when it's not literally losing the plot, attacks similar themes of autonomy, exploitation and oppression with verve and justified anger.
In other words, Art Whore was hardly the first time that the internet outrage machine has circled around themes of sexism, exploitation, privilege, and race.
This tinkering inadvertently fortifies the theme of third-world exploitation but does little to distract from the pleasure of watching Mr. Jaa hurl himself willy nilly at an onslaught of randomly generated foes (the swordsman, the Capoeira dude, the bodybuilder, the in-line skater wielding a fluorescent light bulb).
