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In Reply to: I beg to differ posted by Daryl Zero on September 29, 2005 at 11:26:54:
Category 6 is the kind of gratuitous violence where it's over-the-top and often without consequence; usually, it's impossible to tell whether this kind of violence is intended as being funny or serious. Furthermore, as "black comedy" goes, if it can be called that, these films usually push the envelope along with teen-aged male viewer's buttons in some capacity, often to the point of acting out in some manner or even direct emulation.The key elements of these films are the actors are usually young & hip, the focus of the violence is typically revenge or justified rage and the settings are contemporary with real-world trappings.
Examples:
*Natural Born Killers (caricatured incestuous rape foreshadowing real violence & media acceptance of celebrity status)
*Basketball Diaries (daydream school murder scenes)
*Fight Club (a study in misogynistic corporate world behavior through clandestine boxing matches held for fun and profit to extoll the "virtue" of male violence in a more chaotic albeit civilized world)
*8 Mile (dysfunctal families, rape, vulgarity, violence and the idealization of gansta rap as a means of getting out of poverty)
...includes gangsta rap related films, school shooting films, deadly serious symbolism like A River Runs Through It (just kidding -grin), etc.!
AuPh
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Follow Ups
- Generally true, but category 6 is far worse than Cat. 5 on the "hurricane of violence" scale. - Audiophilander 12:45:53 09/29/05 (9)
- Explain how Category 6 is Different from 1? - Daryl Zero 13:26:16 09/29/05 (8)
- Re: Explain how Category 6 is Different from 1? - Audiophilander 01:00:53 09/30/05 (7)
- Re: Explain how Category 6 is Different from 1? - Daryl Zero 14:50:45 09/30/05 (0)
- Re: I thought Fight Club... - Jeff Starrs 02:43:11 09/30/05 (5)
- "...showed the cold, impotent & dehumanizing effects of violence." - That was not my impression; like PdL, I was bored. - Audiophilander 09:15:56 09/30/05 (0)
- Re: I thought Fight Club... - PdL 06:36:05 09/30/05 (1)
- IMO, Pitt, Like Cruise & Costner, Is Far Overrated. nt - AudioHead 08:31:22 09/30/05 (0)
- Well done. nt - tinear 04:46:41 09/30/05 (1)
- Re: Thanks... - Jeff Starrs 10:48:45 09/30/05 (0)
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