Too Much Violence, Not Enough Sex!
September 28th 2007 12:00
There’s too much pointless violence in movies, too much of it I say! Why can't hardcore porn movies enjoy the same mainstream run as obsessively violent 'horror' movies (I'm looking at you, SAW).
Why is it that people are so easily offended by something as normal as sex yet don’t seem to mind the dismemberment of a human? There are heaps of stuff in the gory ‘horror’ genre (that has become nothing but gore) that is a thousand times more scarring than sex, potentially nightmare inducing and then some.
Way back in 1968 a movie was made in Sweden by the name of ‘I Am Curious (Yellow) which explored politics in a rather odd manner (it would take too long to explain here). I was so interested in it that I ‘acquired’ a copy of the black and white movie. It was interesting and strange and kind of strange at the same time, not something you would be expecting.
I didn’t understand any of it, don’t know why, it was just so different to typical Hollywood fair yet very fresh and in many ways a very entertaining watch. But there was sex, naked sex, full force blatant naked sex (yay?). THough the sex wasn't much, it actually annoyed me that the subtitles stopped working during one of those scenes, I was more interested in understanding what they were saying than what they were doing. Of course the movie was banned in the US when released, only being ‘unbanned’ after a law about obscenity in movies was over turned by the Supreme Court?
Is it fair that the movie went through such hell? Is it fair that such a movie will never go mainstream because of a few instances of nudity and sex when other completely gross and ‘indecent’ movies rise to the top of the box office? At least in ‘I am Curious (Yellow)’ there is politics and actual depth, the sex when put from end to end would probably add up to a grand total of ten minutes in the two hour long movie. Why is it that it’s shunned while the latest incarnation of ‘SAW’ makes it to the top of the US box office?
Compare a scene from each movie and keep in mind that 'I am Curious (Yellow)' only had like 10 minutes of sex while SAW was built on top of gruesome horror,
Why is it that people are so easily offended by something as normal as sex yet don’t seem to mind the dismemberment of a human? There are heaps of stuff in the gory ‘horror’ genre (that has become nothing but gore) that is a thousand times more scarring than sex, potentially nightmare inducing and then some.
Way back in 1968 a movie was made in Sweden by the name of ‘I Am Curious (Yellow) which explored politics in a rather odd manner (it would take too long to explain here). I was so interested in it that I ‘acquired’ a copy of the black and white movie. It was interesting and strange and kind of strange at the same time, not something you would be expecting.
I didn’t understand any of it, don’t know why, it was just so different to typical Hollywood fair yet very fresh and in many ways a very entertaining watch. But there was sex, naked sex, full force blatant naked sex (yay?). THough the sex wasn't much, it actually annoyed me that the subtitles stopped working during one of those scenes, I was more interested in understanding what they were saying than what they were doing. Of course the movie was banned in the US when released, only being ‘unbanned’ after a law about obscenity in movies was over turned by the Supreme Court?
Is it fair that the movie went through such hell? Is it fair that such a movie will never go mainstream because of a few instances of nudity and sex when other completely gross and ‘indecent’ movies rise to the top of the box office? At least in ‘I am Curious (Yellow)’ there is politics and actual depth, the sex when put from end to end would probably add up to a grand total of ten minutes in the two hour long movie. Why is it that it’s shunned while the latest incarnation of ‘SAW’ makes it to the top of the US box office?
Compare a scene from each movie and keep in mind that 'I am Curious (Yellow)' only had like 10 minutes of sex while SAW was built on top of gruesome horror,
I Am Curious (Yellow)
SAW
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