tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post1039742538437265580..comments2023-05-09T04:27:27.901-07:00Comments on The Girl Who Was Saturday: Film Violence, Take the Manyeth but Probably Not the LastTGWWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13727516543273059122noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-25457177587072497832020-06-28T18:58:43.191-07:002020-06-28T18:58:43.191-07:00Interesting ... I suspect there are a multiple rea...Interesting ... I suspect there are a multiple reasons involved for disliking violence. Off the top of my head:<br /><br />1. Personal experience--see your comment; I don't like watching burning buildings, for similar reasons.<br />2. Moral judgment--if violence on screen contributes to violence in real life, then one may judge certain things to be too encouraging of violence.<br />3. Ick TGWWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17726338684638598684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-52947113841144336222020-05-25T14:59:04.566-07:002020-05-25T14:59:04.566-07:00Oddly enough, I cringe more when I see a film char...Oddly enough, I cringe more when I see a film character bludgeoned than when I see one stabbed or dismembered, probably because I have actual experience of blunt impacts (e.g. fistfights with my brother, bumping my head, crashing into another player during a soccer game) and no experience of deep cuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-85278761847558022712017-05-14T13:08:03.894-07:002017-05-14T13:08:03.894-07:00Mm, yes, I should have thought about the (possibly...Mm, yes, I should have thought about the (possibly relevant) distinction between blood-and-guts violence and violence which has more to do with smacking people upside the head.<br /><br />As for your college English professors' point on stage matters: I had never heard this before, but it makes perfect sense! I want to go flip through my Renaissance drama textbook now and look for similar TGWWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17726338684638598684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-82999453676301608882017-05-13T13:09:32.197-07:002017-05-13T13:09:32.197-07:00You say "violence", yet you describe &qu...You say "violence", yet you describe "gore", whereas Gameofthr. threatens violence to its audience in more ways than merely butchering everyone's favourites... but we needn't look at that.<br /><br />I find myself rather of the Hitchcock school, that the Audience are perfectly capable of <i>imagining</i> anything sufficient to frighten them. As it happens, for Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com