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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (20934)	8/8/2001 9:54:25 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't recall the public clamoring for Natural Born Killers But I don't recall them clamoring for La Traviata, either. I don't have any sense of what the public wants. I don't know whether the producers do or not. I watch movies almost exclusively on TV and it's my custom to either fast forward through the car chase and sex scenes or I take the opportunity for a bathroom or refrigerator break. I occasionally watch a fight scene if it's well choreographed, but mostly I skip them, too. It's not that I find any of that offensive, they're just boring and rarely have anything to do with plot development. I suppose that kids don't find them boring and the producers focus on that demographic because they're the ones who pay to see them in the theater rather than watching them on TV years later. OTOH, maybe most people are tuning out and the producers don't realize that they don't need that stuff to sell movies and that most people are tuning out just like me. I'm feeling a bit philosophic about this this morning because I watched Charade on TV last evening. I hadn't seen it since it first came out, when I was still going to the theater. It was even better than I remembered. It was suspenseful without any gratuitous violence, hardly any violence at all considering that several people died. And if the protagonists ever had sex after the camera faded out, you couldn't tell. now that we've been exposed to it, we're ready for the next level This slippery slope can't go on forever. There must be a natural limit or we will soon all be watching snuff flicks. Or taking a lot of refrigerator breaks. [Hey, maybe this explains why our people are getting so fat.] Karen

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (20934)	8/8/2001 9:56:56 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

the question is, is it demand driven? Some of it may be, but I think its mostly a top-down thing. I can't see any reasonable argument to support that contention. The people who make movies and TV shows have one agenda: selling their product. It's a business like any other. They give us sex and violence because sex and violence sell, now as in the days of the lurid penny novels of Victorian England. The only change is in the amount of sex and violence that can be slipped into the package; it is a competitive business, and those in it are always looking for ways to make the sex sexier and the violence gorier. If it were a top-down thing, what reason would there possibly be for pushing sex and violence?