Posted on 12/31/2013 11:42:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Not condoning, but profiting from.
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Similar with gun/weapons control. If guns/weapons were totally banned, how many TV programs and movies would have to be shelved?
Hollywood doesn’t mind profiting from these.
Happy New Year, Mrs. Tax. Hope you, Der Prinze and the assorted Chicklets had a great Christmas!
Francis Xavier Sheed, III
Why, Frank! What a pleasant surprise! I was just thinking of you recently, among folks we don’t see much around the Undead Thread these days.
We had a very nice Christmas, thanks. Gunner Anoreth was here, with her dog and her dragon, and no new tattoos. My father was going through a bad patch, with violent episodes, but he’s doing much better in the last week since a couple of abcessed teeth were removed.
Hope you are all well, too!
I don't see why conservatives would want the level of debauchery toned down in the telling of this story. That's what would make the behaviors more acceptable. And I wouldn't want the movie to do the moralizing. The story will bring most viewers to moral conclusions.
I welcome discussion. But please don't bother if you haven't seen the movie.
No, they are all pretty-much straightforward pump-and-dump penny stock swindlers. Life was simpler twenty years ago.
THREE hours!?
I’ll be asleep an hour before it ends.
Riiiiiight. Look at the black subculture’s glorification of Scarface and the subsequent behavior in that community and tell me the message received is different.
I may watch it when available at no extra charge...but I can trust established reviewers, can’t I?
Do I have to watch every Freddie Lincoln flick to determine if it is pornography?
Scorsese’s “King of Comedy” hero was Rupert Pupkin—who CLEARLY was mentally ill and engaged in criminal behavior....but he was still the hero of the story.
Friday the 13th celebrates chopping up devirginized campers
Battlestar Galactica celebrates blowing up spaceships
Captain Kirk celebrated inter-species kissing
It’s a movie!!!
Just because a group of people chose to deliberately take the wrong message from a movie doesn’t mean that’s the message. Some people are stupid, some deliberately confused. I’ll let you decide which group you and the gangstas are in.
Rupert’s an ANTI-hero. This is a very important, and rather old, concept that you seem to not grasp do some reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_hero
Heh. Literary-esque roles aside, the upshot is he IS the hero, as is Tony Montana in Scarface. I speak in a practical, applicable sense.
Go on with your illusions, but you’re ignoring the real life applications of the effect on the avid viewer.
No he’s the ANTIhero, and you’re speaking in a practical applicable sense, you’re making things up to support a false point. Out here in reality antiheroes are very different than heroes, they aren’t good people, they’re intended for the audience to be conflicted in their support of them. The only person with illusions here is the one that denies the core difference between a hero and antihero, YOU’RE ignoring the real life applications of basic dramatic tools.
It’s funny how dedicated you are to being EXACTLY the type of person you’re alluding to, the one who goes out of their way to grossly misinterpret stories to be inspired where they are supposed to be repulsed. With your behavior you prove my exact point: some in the audience are just morons, that’s not the creators’ fault.
:) I’ve been ‘round the block enough to see and know the real world, Miss. I am aware of “basic dramatic tools” when they are used in literature and film. None of that detracts or diminishes my powers of observation.
When you’ve had kids of your own (or been around friends or family’s children) and watched how they behave after being imbued with sexual and/or violent material, observed what passes for society up close and personal in both the city and the sticks, and look at what media (music, film, video games, etc.) is reflected in the behavior of those populations...your perspective may be awakened.
Reading Wikipedia or merely talking to a college prof in film won’t cut it IRL.
Good night.
It’s sad how proud you are about not knowing what you’re talking about.
Talk about absurd. He’s just an actor (and an overrated one at that).
Why are actors treated like they are so important and special? The money they make just for being in front of a camera is obscene.
I agree 100%!
And he is a sorry actor too, IMO.
Some of his fans go berserk when you say that. I’m not kidding.
He is not natural in front of the camera. You can tell he is acting. It’s as though he is trying to compensate for something.
Powers Boothe is an example of a talented and natural actor. Vic Morrow was another actor who was immensely talented. He did some directing as well.
It actually broke the ‘F’-bomb record.
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