This article talks about how the violence in movies and media is contributing to the violent nature of our culture. It covers the incidents in Newtown, Connecticut, with the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, and the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and how the media and violent films such as The Dark Knight Rises contributed to the violent nature of our society. The author, Mick LaSalle, mentions how in the movie theater, people didn't think the shooter was real at first; he says they thought it was part of the movie promotion. He goes on to blame the cinema for the fact that no one took the gunman seriously at first. He claims that the media has made us so desensitized to violence that we don't register the imminent danger of a gunman, but try to look for alternatives for him being there. However this is just human nature. Even LaSalle shows his thought process to minimize the portrayal of violence in his movie critiques. This is because not only is a movie theater not the place you would expect to see a gunman because you have never heard of that before, but also the human mind is going to think the positive first. No one is going to assume they are going to die in a movie theater at that instant and take cover, their minds are immediately going to think of something safer, like a movie promotion. So to accuse the cinema and like things for that assumption is misplaced.
Article 2- Everything Quentin Tarantino Really Thinks About Violence and the Movies
In this interview/article. Tarantino vividly expresses his dislike for the interviewers questions. The interviewer, Guru-Murthy, asks Tarantino how the violence in his films relates, and contributes to the violence in real life. Tarantino refuses to answer the question and simply states that he has answered this question over many years and refuses to talk about it anymore. This in fact is true. There are many articles to find where Tarantino discusses the relation between the violence in his movies to the violence in real life. Tarantino states that the violence in movies is just in the movies, and he is not responsible for what people do with those images and thoughts after the movie is over. He states that violence in movies is cool, but he feels that the violence in America is one of the worst traits this nation has. What people do with the images they see is their own deal. Movies aren't brain washing people into doing violent acts, it is their own choices and feelings that lead to their violent actions. Most people won't go see Winnie the Pooh and come out feeling like they need to love everyone and eat honey, just like people won't leave a violent, R rated film, wanting to kill everyone they see.
Article 3- Marilyn Manson "Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?"
The Marilyn Manson article points out that our society has not become more violent, but the violence is more available. Manson talks about how TV shows violence non-stop; however this did not originate from TV. Violence has been around for ever and as Manson says "The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Violence is in our blood. It doesn't matter if we see it or not, we as humans are still going to be violent. It is who we are. It only seems that the news and television has made our culture more violent because television and media make it so easily accessible to find out the latest on the war, or a shooting that happened. If you take away TV, it's not like the violence is going to magically disappear and we suddenly have a peaceful, happy world. No, if you take away the TV and news, violence is still going to happen, just less people will be informed and know the facts. Manson just points out the fact that if media and television would have been around during the civil war, that would be the only thing you could find to watch. The media would so heavily broadcast the war, that no one would be able to fill their heads with anything different. But that wouldn't make everyone crazy or a psychotic killer, it would just make everyone aware.
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