#Violence in Movies

[nightthewing]

My friend and I were having a conversation about horror movies, during which they mentioned that Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween all had deaths that are commonly misremembered as being more gruesome than they actually are on screen, and it made me wonder if that has something to do with the way we process violence- would the same be true of war movies, or other hyperviolent ones (looking at you, Tarantino, Rodriguez)? And I'd love to do a controlled for all factors twenty year study on how people remember violent scenes depending on the age they first see the movie and how long it's been between viewings and so forth, but I don't have funding for that so I'm gonna settle for a tumblr poll. Please reblog for reach! I'd love to get as large a pool as possible.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"BLOODY SAM" ON THE GRIM REALITY OF KILLING -- A WARNING TO THE REST OF US.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted film stills from the bloody conclusion of the American epic revisionist Western "The Wild Bunch" (1969), directed and co-written by Sam Peckinpah. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

“… killing a man isn’t clean and quick and simple. It’s bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn’t just fun and games, maybe we’ll get somewhere.”

— SAM PECKINPAH (American film director/screenwriter/cinema iconoclast)

Sources: Britannica, Film Comment, Newsweek, Pinterest, Alchetron, Slash Film, various, etc...

[allthebestscreennamesaregone63]

"I don't remember movies in my day being this violent" "i didn't remember how scary this movie was" "childrens movies aren't scary!" 💀💀💀Bro, you slept through the whole goshdanged movie 💀💀💀

[prokopetz]

Referencing obscure Internet memes in mainstream media almost invariably falls flat, but if movie!Deadpool walked into the aftermath of a scene of gratuitous carnage and quipped "wow, it looks like a children's hospital in here" it would totally work. To those who don't catch the reference it would come off as generic edgy bullshit, and to those in the know, Deadpool having a Tumblr account is completely believable.

[hellspawnmotel]

intimacy between an evil spiteful building-sized supercomputer and the lone scientist left behind after everyone else ditched and forgot about her (in which computer wants to kill scientist really bad but her programming wont let her so she just attempts to make her as miserable as possible instead, which also doesn't work because scientist is a freak)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[anthonysperkins]

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby and Into the pit Oswald have similar “friends”..

[yuukirita]

B-127 is filled with cuteness and blood lust.

He's a cute killing machine! He gets that from his other dad. And Orion Pax is very proud, but also concerned.

Megatron is just proud. Elita too but she'd never admit it.

They are found family I will die on that hill.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Stacy’s mom from the hit song Stacy’s mom is Jigsaw from hit movie series Saw. My gym teacher and I were stuck in the first Saw trap. I beat her up with a radiator and then chased Stacy’s mom in a high stakes chase scene.

Good dream.

[mintaikk]

I know in my heart that Wolvie and Deadpool fucked in that car

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"WE WANTED TO SHOW VIOLENCE IN REAL TERMS. DYING IS NOT FUN AND GAMES."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted visceral film stills from one of the greatest films ever made -- the American epic revisionist Western, "The Wild Bunch" (1969), directed and co-written by Sam Peckinpah. Warner Bros-Seven Arts.

"We wanted to show violence in real terms. Dying is not fun and games. Movies make it look so detached. With "The Wild Bunch," people get involved whether they like it or not. They do not have the mild reactions to it."

— SAM PECKINPAH on depicting violence onscreen in his classic revisionist Western (American filmmaker/cinema legend)

Sources: https://twitter.com/bja_samuel/status/1325047548084629504, https://medium.com/applaudience/if-they-move-kill-em-2cb9ccb60579, various, etc...

[archdevilsupreme]

starring in Ice Nine Kills' "A Work Of Art"

[mushroomflood]

CW! implied violence, references to injury/death!

I’ve been thinking a lot about Movie Knuckles and his past. Picturing that poor baby growing up in a fighting arena. So I made a little comic about it!

[deputyrook]

"oh no, that's hot" - sexual awakening through horror - a gifset for every person who ever watched a scene in a horror movie that made them feel something they'd never felt before, knowing it wasn't the 'right' thing to feel.

[anthonysperkins]

Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee The Living End (1992) dir. Gregg Araki Dry Wind (2020) dir. Daniel Nolasco Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger The Sergeant (1968) dir. Dennis Murphy Tom at the Farm (2013) dir. Xavier Dolan God's Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee Lonesome (2022) dir. Craig Boreham Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins Wandering Heart (2021) dir. Leonardo Brzezicki