Can violence be something fun? Does it have a limit? Tarantino has said several times that his movies are pure fiction for the viewers to enjoy. Instead of questioning whether his violence is moral or not, we should just enjoy it. These filmmakers use violence as a cathartic method to portray liberty and purification through images. Moreover, Aristotle made a few references to violence in his work Poetics. There, he analyzed the Greek tragedies and all that they entailed.
Why did the Greeks enjoy seeing violent or incestual scenes? Precisely because they were taboo topics. Violent shows were cathartic for the Greeks, which is why they enjoyed attending them. Lee, of course, is the kung fu star who remains a legend today.
One of the only men living with the hippie women, Clem, stands nearby, proud to have done the deed. Booth asks Clem to change his car tire, and when Clem refuses, Booth whales on him—hard, fast, drawing blood. Most of the women of the ranch watch the beating with silent concern. But by the time Tex arrives on the scene, Booth is driving away. A nastier confrontation has been narrowly missed. Most of the rest of the movie concerns itself with scenes of Hollywood professionals pondering their craft and eating at Mexican restaurants.
But there is violence to be seen—in the movies-and-TV-shows-within-a-movie that Tarantino splices in. So much for a simpler, more peaceful time in pop culture. That question has long annoyed him. In movies, violence is cool.
Blonde Michael Madsen saws off the ear of a bound and gagged cop. Even though you don't see the actual severance on screen — a pan serves to do the work of covering your eyes for you — critics were stunned. Variety warned that "a needlessly sadistic sequence Twenty-seven years on, Tarantino is still dancing gleefully across that line, poised as he is to upset audiences' stomachs on Friday with his already-controversial Manson murder extravaganza, Once Upon a Time in Despite the nearly three decades that have passed since "the ear" hullabaloo, though, Tarantino's excessive use of gore remains the emotional crescendo of his filmmaking — and isolates the unique, affecting abilities that filmmaking has over all other arts.
Unfortunately, nothing brings out America's moral banshees quite like the endless, ongoing debate about violence in film.
By the time Tarantino was working on Kill Bill in the early s, the wailing over his enthusiastic use of gore was already growing stale. But while Tarantino's critics have long sought to link his on-screen gore to the violence prevalent in everyday life, the two examples could not be further from each other.
Gore in Tarantino's films is used as yet another tool to emphasize the artifice — and, contained within that, the possibility — of filmmaking as a medium. Violence in Tarantino's films is virtually never reflective of what violence looks like in real life: It is unnatural, unrealistically bloody, and heavily stylized. Severed bodies magically contain more than the standard 5. There are also certain personality traits associated liking violent media. Extroverted people, who seek excitement, and people who are more open to aesthetic experiences, like watching violent movies more.
Conversely, people high in agreeableness - characterised by humility and sympathy for others - tend to like violent media less. One theory is that watching violence is cathartic, draining out our excess aggression. However, this idea is not well supported by evidence. When angry people watch violent content, they tend to get angrier. More recent research, derived from studies of horror films, suggests there may be three categories of people who enjoy watching violence, each with their own reasons.
These sensation seekers want new and intense experiences, and are more likely to get a rush from watching violence. Part of this group may be people who like seeing others suffer. Read more: From psychopaths to 'everyday sadists': why do humans harm the harmless? Another group enjoys watching violence because they feel they learn something from it. Like adrenaline junkies, they feel intense emotions from watching horror.
But they dislike these emotions. They tolerate it because they feel it helps them learn something about how to survive.
This is a bit like benign masochism , the enjoyment of aversive, painful experiences in a safe context.
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