Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 2:03:24 GMT
I think like anything these "devices" become boring and cliched. They then try and up the ante because what was titillating and shocking at first no longer is.
"The Walking Dead" is a great example of this, it at times takes the violence to such an extreme it is comedic or cartoon like.
In GOT the sexual violence can get a bit much at times and given that people really are raped brutally in real life it makes me wonder if that is something which should be used for entertainment value. And yes, I know people are killed brutally in real life as well and that also makes me wonder about using it as entertainment value.
I am not meaning this in an extreme way, murder, death, sex will always be a part of storytelling. I am referring more to making it so graphic and extreme. As a lover of classic films, they often manage to convey the horror of what has happened without even showing a dead body let alone how it was done.
"The Walking Dead" is a great example of this, it at times takes the violence to such an extreme it is comedic or cartoon like.
In GOT the sexual violence can get a bit much at times and given that people really are raped brutally in real life it makes me wonder if that is something which should be used for entertainment value. And yes, I know people are killed brutally in real life as well and that also makes me wonder about using it as entertainment value.
I am not meaning this in an extreme way, murder, death, sex will always be a part of storytelling. I am referring more to making it so graphic and extreme. As a lover of classic films, they often manage to convey the horror of what has happened without even showing a dead body let alone how it was done.