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for bloodshed?
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by filmgeek83 on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 04:05:47 PM PDT
Yeah. Luis Buñuel set an early benchmark for artistic and memorable film violence in 1929 with Un Chien Andalou.
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by jhutson on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 04:15:28 PM PDT
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...that was actually a cow's eye.
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by Jay Elias on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 04:23:16 PM PDT
There is an image of a straight razor placed by the woman's eye. Then a cloud crosses in front of the moon. And then a cow's eye is slit open.
by jhutson on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 04:33:19 PM PDT
...the shot of the ants crawling out of the wounded hand is far more disturbing.
by Jay Elias on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 04:37:31 PM PDT
To each their own.
As for me, no violence on the screen. I can have my own nightmares at night, don't need to pay $10 or whatever to have somoene else give me more.
I haven't been to a movie in well over ten years for that reason and because of the movie studios' support for copyright fascism. But I'll gladly take the G and PG stuff any day, the "fluffier" the better. Give me Mr. Rogers, updated for equal rights for gay folks.
What I'd really like to see is someone start making films about the great scientific & engineering advances of the past 100 - 200 years or more. That would be cool. And include the math, at least enough to be able to teach the audience a few things about how it's done.
by G2geek on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 05:29:35 PM PDT
If I want to see horror and violence, I watch C-SPAN and the nightly news.
I watch movies for entertainment, not for blood and guts.
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by Ed in Montana on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 06:54:07 PM PDT
although Jaws was okay (just don't enjoy that part of it). I do like the movies such as Die Hard, which have lots of explosions but it isn't violence, as you delineate it. It is nice and sorta clean, and generally without people in bits. That I could see elsewhere, like on the news, as Ed points out.
The torture porn stuff that people go to see these days is just mind-boggling to me.
But a nice discussion in the diary, even if I have no desire to see these movies you discuss!
by annetteboardman on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:14:32 PM PDT
Know what? I think there's a correlation between the rise of torture porn and the rise of torture as per the Regime. Each is a reflection of the other.
Some people can watch that stuff and keep their perspective; others get caught up in it and it becomes part of their attitude, e.g. "if we have to turn a few ragheads inside-out, so be it."
Makes me wonder about other historic periods, such as the 1930s in Europe.
by G2geek on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:28:51 PM PDT
is a good example of what filmgeek is talking about: very effective use of the threat of violence. There's one scene in a gas station in the middle of nowhere where not a drop of blood is shed - but it's the most terrifying scene in the movie, IMO.
Very little gore in that movie, if any. Extremely violent, because it's about a guy who is a sociopathic killer.
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by occams hatchet on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:37:38 PM PDT
That that is a very interesting movie.
But on CSPAN the other day, there was this scene with Harry Reid and Jay Rockefeller over FISA, where not a drop of blood was shed, but you could hear the shredding of the Constitution in the background.
That's about as horrific as I can take!
by Ed in Montana on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 07:53:20 PM PDT
what you speak of is horrifying beyond comprehension.
by occams hatchet on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 09:15:46 PM PDT
wide narrow
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