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Re: Re: How about sueing filmmakers for glorifying guns and car chases?
The questions is whether behaviors and attitudes which have no positive aspect other than tittilating our jaded senses (mine too, I just watched "Running Scared" again and loved it) should have unchallenged domination of the media. I think a suit (versus a law) is one person or group's wasy of expressing their dissatisfaction with misuse of mass media.I beleive it can be demonstrated that for most people that ideas presented on mass media, and especially if hardwired to our adrenal glands and utilizing with characters we covet or identify with, are taken at much higher value by more people at a faster rate of propagation than anything else.
Unsafe prop use and stunts on the set are symptoms of the filmakers' stripmining attitude towards media. Like teenagers with their daddy's semihauler.
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majroj
on August 26, 2007 at 6:57 PM
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Re: How about sueing filmmakers for glorifying guns and car chases?
Maj, there are issues about freedom of expression here which trumps the dangerous potential of the content of movies, but there are laws on the books that can be enforced when film producers endanger their actors or create situations that are harmful or abusive to animals, whether they involve guns, cars, or any other types of depictions of violence.
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Cynthia
on August 24, 2007 at 7:14 AM
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How about sueing filmmakers for glorifying guns and car chases?
I corrsponded briefly with a fellow who manages firearms on movies. He does not disagree that popular culture glamorizes guns and teaches people every wrong way to think about or use them. He said he has bailed on a few projects because the makers started wanting to cut corners and sacrifice safety and realism.
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majroj
on August 17, 2007 at 12:25 PM
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