Action Films. Good or Bad ??
Essay by review • February 16, 2011 • Essay • 455 Words (2 Pages) • 1,300 Views
What place does violence have in the movies? Well, I
believe that violence has a place in movies depending
on the particular film and what the director of the
film is trying to portray. If the director uses
violence in his/her film and there isn't any reason
behind it, then I would disagree and say that violence
shouldn't be in THAT particular film. But in a movie
like "Saving Private Ryan", Steven Spielburg
replicates the actual events of D-Day on to the big
screen by creating a violent-like scene to get the
viewer of an understanding of what U.S. troops had to
go through. In other films, we see violence used to
test the human soul and to see if he/she/they could
overcome trials and tribulations. In the film
"Independence Day", Earth was attacked "violently" by
aliens; therefore, leaving behind a planet that was
almost completely destroyed. The humans, after
surviving the attack, joined forces with others around
the world and destroyed the alien invasion to regain
Earth. In those two cases, I would agree and say that
violence should be in the movies. The role of violence
in films has been a big one. In some of today's
movies, its seems like the films portrays violence,
but don't back it up with some reasoning or
explanation as to why the character is doing what
he/she is doing. "Shootfighter" is movie that comes to
mind when I talk about movies with violence without
reasoning or explanation. The movie is about two
karate instructors and their master going down to
Mexico to fight in an illegal shootfighting
tournament. During the course of the movie, you
witness people getting sliced up and their heads cut
off with ninja swords, a fighter raping a girl because
she wouldn't do what she was told by the rapist, and
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