Ethics- Surprise!
I just saw the movie Sin City. It was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen- nearly every single human taboo that you could possibly think of was exploited and occasionally celebrated. Still, it was less effective at being frightening than say, Saw. Horror movies try to exploit realism, and Sin City was quite obviously comic-book like in character, more so than Spiderman or X-Men, to the point where the dialogue might have come straight off a comic page. The special effects made no attempt towards realism. As a result, the disturbing images did not come across as being as blatantly disgusting as they might have been. I find it interesting that simply the context of taking place in a make believe world can desensitize our feelings.
posted by Emmett @ 16:44
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I've noticed that too. I mean, video games are pretty much one wad of morally reprehensible acts. Ooh, remember the last game of Risk we played? One example of fiction getting a different response because it's fiction rather than fact, one that I've found particularly interesting, is Jack Sparrow. Think about it. He's irresponsible. He's selfish. He's treacherous. He's amoral. He's all things non-hero. And yet girls swoon over him and everyone cheers at his appearnce, myself included (the cheering, not the swooning). The movie script can control his actions, luck, and success on-screen so we don't actually see him do anything that would make us hate him, even though he himself is not someone you'd want to have around in a crisis. As I put it to a friend, "So he's cute...as long as he doesn't get any."
Mmm... that was actually the biggest forms of structure when Terracino made Sin City was that it had to feel like a comic book the entire time you were watching the movie. *which of course it was based on a comic book. ahem* And was it actually put in the horror section? eww... I would have expected them to put it in the action type class. *shrugs* whatever. Maybe I'll post in blogger again... but I'm using my Deviantart account for the occassional writing I feel like doing. Anyway. Hi.
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