European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse So what a wrong with violence in movies a. Tri Star Sylvester Stallone leads flows on an escape in the 1985 thriller rambo first blood part ii. By Jack Mathews new Day aying you done to like violence in movies is like saying you done to like slapstick comedy in movies. Violence is just one of Many cinematic things you can do. Some people done to like it and that a Fine. I get a kick out of it that fresh Breeze of political incorrectness came from american filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after the world premiere of his pulp fiction at the Cannes film festival a few of weeks ago. Tarantino went on to say that having to defend the violence in pulp fiction which is about drug dealers and professional killers is like Stanley Donn having to defend the dance sequences in singing in the rain which is about professional hoofers. Not everyone will buy that analogy. If movies inspire imitative behaviour As so Many believe an outbreak of dancing in the streets Isnit quite As fearsome a Prospect As an outbreak of killing. But the analogy works for me. When violence is used Well whether in serious drama or in a Black comedy like pulp fiction which went on to win the Golden Palm award i get a kick out of it too. While we re at it. Ill confess to appreciating mov is whose use of nudity and sex mesh with my own tastes and there is nothing like a few Well chosen earnestly screamed profanities to articulate a mood. Jack Nicholson a obscenity riddled barroom Tantrum in the last detail is one of the most stirring scenes in modern film. Why do these things suddenly feel like guilty pleasures in be enjoyed violence in movies since i was a kid and Haven to acted out yet though i occasionally fantasize about smacking Rush Limbaugh around and no one welcomed the relaxing of the sexual and language standards in mainstream movies in the late 60s More than i did. When that decade began Henry Millers Tropic of cancer a one of my favourites a was Stilt banned from . Bookstores and by the time it ended an a rated movie version was in production. In some ways that explicit Ness now seems As much a relic of the 60s and �?T70s As photos of stoned kids by Joe Murray Lufkin Texas daily news Cading to myself thinking out loud. A Day was t necessary if Only we d known. In a year and two months America had the atomic bomb. Then the invasion of Europe could have been accomplished with no More american causalities than it took to take Over Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki a Zero. As it was the United states Britain and Canada suffered some 10,000 troops killed or wounded in just one Day at Normandy and the Battle across France and into Germany had Only begun. Dancing naked at Woodstock. Filmmakers have misused their Freedom in such escalating doses of poor taste and bad Art that they have turned proponents of free speech into the Wear est of allies. Hollywood spent much of the �?T80s turning out teen lust movies think Porky s that had More in common with the Quot Nudie cuties of �?T50s grind houses than life among american youth. The rambo series inspired by a Post Vietnam War novel on the psychological fallout from agent Orange became such a ceaseless Bloodbath that it turned the military term Quot body county into a movie critics catch phrase. The excesses have had two damaging effects on movies. Exploiting sex violence and profanity for their own Sake trivializes the characters involved and saps the strength of the stories being told even skillful filmmakers these Days seem compelled to oversell their racier goods. And it bolsters the arguments of anti intellectuals who blame cultural Raissez Faire for every sort of social ill. So when someone like Tarantino says he likes violence in movies and has no intention of toning Down his own use of it he becomes the target of both the far right where the concept of free expression is held in some contempt and the far left where Vio history would have been the same except that wed have one less Victory to celebrate but a lot More veterans. A every War that Ever was or Ever will be was. About real estate. A Jackie Kennedy Onassis treasured her privacy almost above All else. Press accounts after her death made it seem As if it were a Noble Quality. Even her will demands that her children Quot respect my wish for privacy and a take whatever action is warranted to prevent the display publication or distribution in whole or in part of these papers letters and you almost have to wonder what she had to hide. Its hard to remember but people once were proud to say a my life is an open a All the news out of Houston is about the Success of the rockets in the playoffs. I liked what a fellow at the truck Stop said the other morning about How pro basketball could be improved a first of All raise the goal to 12 feet. And secondly limit the game to just the last two a the newspaper quotes this census Bureau statistic that Only 39 percent of the children born in 198s will live with both parents until they turn is a which is to say there a a 61 percent Chance that things will get worse not better. Lenic As entertainment oversteps the Ever expanding Bounds of political correctness. He likes violence what Tarantino said is that he likes violence in movies and that he has no trouble reconciling that vicarious pleasure with the revulsion he feels for violence in real life. He docs live in los Angeles. Critics tempted to write favourably of violent films Are caught in the same crossfire As the filmmaker. To people with a fever about the subject violence has Only two functions in a movie to make a statement against it or to glorify it. The truth is that violence does no to always fit one of those categories. Sometimes its just there like slapstick comedy or a musical number one of the Many choices at the filmmakers disposal. Tarantino says he will not censor the behaviour of his characters and As Long As he a making movies about thieves and killers their behaviour is going to be ugly. If pulp fiction was t the Best movie at Cannes my Choice was Krzysztof Nieslowski s three colors Redit was the Best movie movie 2vi hours of hilarious mayhem. Miramar films will release it in August. Any movie that would please both extremes would be extremely Boring. Family tics it turns out Are the ones that Best bind us together in All things Good a happiness Prosperity and Well being. Morality respect Faith Charity Courtesy obedience Industry education health dignity patriotism kindness love of our fellow Man a most everything of consequence in character and the Quality of life goes Back to family values. Otherwise most everything goes out the window. A on that much i agree with Dan Quayle who i read in the newspaper was in Houston to sign autographs of his Book standing firm. I intended in fact to drive the two hours to Houston for a personal autograph myself a though not made out to me. What i was going to do was Tell the former vice president i was buying the Book As a gift for an old Uncle Over in Lafayette la., a Good cajun Republican by the name of Joe Potat Eaux. And if he asked me How to spell it i was going to say Quot of the regular Way to to at what do you bet head have written it just so sad to say Well never know. I Don t have a Republican unde but i do have a Republican wife. When she heard what i was planning she hid my car keys. That s what i get i guess for thinking out loud. Cox Kyas Sorvick atomic bomb would be been easier than a Day 20 sunday june 12, 193-1
