Are You A Sponge??

That's got to be the main question asked in hundreds of debates on the levels of screen violence. Are human beings sponges when it comes to viewing violent behaviour, do we simply absorb what we see and emulate it in the real world. Of course we bloody don't! But there is always a few that do therefore we have censorship. Screen violence was the topic of conversation in Bill's latest lecture. It did make me laugh as some people had complained about the graphic violence in the clips from 'Alien' 1979 and 'The Thing' 1982 in the last lecture which if I'm being honest is really not that bad, its monsters committing violence against humans not humans committing violence against other humans. Scenes from say 'Saving Private Ryan' 1998 were much more traumatic!


Here have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOC-E3qIsUQ Now that's screen violence, don't god damn complain next time, if you don't have what it takes to be on the course then leave and stop wasting time for the rest of us. Rant over!

Back when i started doing this blog i read on Sean's blog about 'A Serbian Film' 2010 http://babysfirstcoffin.tumblr.com/post/1341189800/first-blog-post-for-media-histories-cultures-a
I also heard about and watched the trailer to 'The Human Centiped' 2009 when i see these kind of films being advertised i do realise that people are being desensitised to violence in the media it is being glorified and dramatised. As Danny said in our seminar, its like its taking violence and blood shed and making it sexy. This is pretty much true people don't die in real life like they do in films, the fight seen at the end of 'Kill Bill Vol 1' 2003 is so over dramatic it actual take away from the actual horror of the actions that are being perpetrated.

Is screen violence a bad thing? No it isn't but there is a boundary between screen violence that  is an integral part of the plot and screen violence for that sake of violence. Blood shed for the sake of blood just doesn't really work on an entertainment level for many viewers.