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Movie Violence Done Right

submitted by oblio70

8 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

Examining violence in film, here he points to its use beyond the "spicy shot" to just re-excite the audience. Shane Black has used violence in storytelling to promote an alternate view of the main character, or a discomforting tool to get a viewer to re-align their point of view. Examples are given using Lethal Weapon and Nice Guys, as well as a few others.

Violence NOT for violence's sake...I'm talking to YOU, Age of Ultron.

4 Comments

ChaosEngine

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Nice Guys was a great movie!

*quality exploration of violence

siftbot

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ChaosEngine.

CrushBug

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Jason Bourne 1 through 3 - Good. (Shaky Cam - Bad)
Jason Bourne 4 - Bad.

JiggaJonson

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I feel like I've been saying this for years about a variety of different films, mostly super hero genre crap.

When Wolverine cuts off someone's arm, I don't need Tarantino blood, but nothing happening doesn't make sense either. It's demeaning and belittling to the audience when filmmakers pander to the PG13 crowd.