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Watched someone shoot a cop in the head from the floor above...

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In Reply to: RE: Tarantino flicks brought that same criticism of escalated gore and violence. posted by free.ranger on May 05, 2019 at 07:33:41

by mistake in a nearly 100 YO short yesterday.

We all gasped. The cop was up and running around again a minute later.

The rest of any of the other violence was more slapstick and par for the comic course.

But that one scene was really and SURPRISINGLY disturbing, and much more violent than anything portrayed in John Ford's feature Hell Bent.

It happened at the SILENT film festival in this pairing:

Tarantino may have turned gore into a cartoon later, but the scenes in Reservoir Dogs are still squirmingly horrendous.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure

http://www.silentfilm.org/festivalevents/festival-2019 (Open in New Window)

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Slightly off-topic, since you mentioned the San Francisco Silent Film Festival... - Audiophilander 11:39:33 05/06/19 (0)
Haven't attended since around 2012, but can't recommend it enough. Absolutely wonderful film festival. It's a long trip from Ft. Worth to San Francisco by train (I don't like to fly), but loved the Festival both times we attended. Unfortunately, the Festival dates shifted around that time and stared clashing directly with San Diego ComicCon. We begrudgingly dropped SFSFF from our calendar due to the scheduling conflict.

Since the SFSFF organizers have moved the dates away from SDCC we may be able to work this back into our schedules next year.

Cheers,
AuPh

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