Director Peter Bogdanovich: What If Movies Are Part of the Problem?

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69. Did you see Harry potter?

Cause there's a war, torture, a huge battle, plenty of death. Just because its a kids show doesnt mean violence isnt depicted. Kung Fu Panda was a beautifully animated film about abandonment and battling a despotic ruthless dictator. It still had lots of fight scenes and explosions. I personally know the people who worked on both Panda films and that the studio was very nervous about how all those fight scenes would go over with parents. (similar to the concerns held by CN when they produced Samurai Jack) Turns out it was fine. Our culture and movie rating system accepts violence while repressing sexuality. Know how you get death, violence, torture in PG rated films passed the board? All you have to do is not show blood. That's how you get a pass and how children see more than 200,000 deaths depicted in media. And that's not including video games.

Now I'm not saying movies cause violence in our culture, but they do desensitize people. Even the movies marketed to children when you strip away the colorful images are dark and full of violence. Look at the Twilight series. Look at every superhero/comic book story. They are dark tales as were the fairy tales of old.

You want to make money in movies? The key in that list above isn't violence or cartoons or even story. It's VFX. Yknow the workers most treated like shite by the industry. Without thousands of 3D animators, compositors, lighters all those films wouldn't have made a splash.