[lit-ideas] Re: Movies without Guns
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:52:47 -0400
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> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 8/26/2005 8:31:11 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Movies without Guns
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> >Fictional violence, like Clockwork Orange, I avoid at all costs.
>
> But that's the POINT Andy: the whole point of that movie! NO OTHER movie
> had such a point.
It taught me nothing about violence that I didn't already know. Those who
enjoy violence no doubt enjoyed it. I did not.
What are you avoiding?
> Did you avoid Goodfellas for the same reason? Scarface? How many others?
> Are you afraid of the backwoods of your town? Do you believe in the
> unsconscious?
>
I saw the Godfather and it was a jerky movie. I learned that the lowlifes
in the mob kill each other. Yawn. For that I need an unconscious?
What's an unconscious got to do with it anyway?
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