Violence Articles

Lane Harmon

Quentin Tarantino on Violence

                Tarantino’s reaction to the question about violence puzzles me. He acts as if the interviewer just asked to have his first born child and his reasoning for not wanting to answer the question was that he had already explained it before. So he made a big deal about the fact that he was not going to “baited” into answering that question although it did not need to be that big of a deal. I also did not like the fact that he kept saying that the whole interview was just a commercial for his movie and that is why he did not want to answer the question. He kept telling the interviewer that if anyone wanted to know what he thought about the topic then they could Google it. My thought on this is that if they can Google it anyways then why not go ahead and answer the question about it. If he does not care for real violence and feels that movie violence does not have a connection then if he would have stated this he would have come off as a better person and maybe have gotten more fans.

Violent Media Poisoning Nation’s Soul

                I think what the writer talks about in this article are some very good points. I think that his main point about the critics being too timid to say what they really need to say about the movies and other Medias that they review is sad. I think that critics should be able to effectively review these and say exactly what they think is necessary, whether they think it will ruin their credibility or not. They should open up about some of the controversial issues that may be inside any media that they may be reviewing so that everyone is aware of what is in the video. I believe that he is correct in assuming that all critics respond to the movies and stuff the way that they do because everyone does not want to step on another person’s toes in order to say what they really think. That is the whole reason for the Right of Freedom of Speech. They all need to learn it effectively.

Marilyn Manson

                I think that Manson is spot on in his argument. I believe that it is not the movies, or games, or music, or anything like that that causes these things to happen. People have the right to have access to the tools of other peoples’ destruction and I do not mean guns or anything like that but I mean more or less the actual media that is reporting on these horrible atrocities. I think he is correct in saying that they make folk heroes out of these horrible individuals by plastering their faces all over television and papers and the internet. Although the other issue is the fact that the way that they plaster these individuals everywhere may cause other people in similar situations to want to react in the same way. If the media did not start to assume the motives of these people then maybe less people would want to follow in their footsteps, so-to-speak.