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Sex vs Violence Mar 16, 2017 17:11:41 GMT

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Post by marlonbrawndo on Mar 16, 2017 17:11:41 GMT

Mar 10, 2017 2:03:24 GMT @crypticanomaly said:

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.

I avoided GoT for quite a while because of the talk of the sex and violence it portrays. I watched on the recommendation of a friend whose education and literacy well exceeded mine, a retired library director. In addition to classical literature, he is a devotee of science fiction and fantasy.

As I watched, I realized that the series was really a roman à clef of world history, rife with brutality, oppression, and exploitation, laid bare as it existed in past times, not sanitized as the same horrors are today, with drones delivering death indiscriminately, controlled by video game players thousands of miles away.

If you can't abide GoT because of its rawness, you probably can't face the history of mankind, and the inhumanity that still exists.

One thing that GoT does that really shocks is that it will snuff out or brutalize characters which would be off limits in killing-spree action movies. As in real life, when someone's time comes, it doesn't matter who they are, how much you like them, or how "the series just won't be the same without them."

We're a nation which has watched a president's head exploded by a bullet on a sunny Dallas day, and towers filled with fellow citizens collapse into rubble on live TV. Deal with it. At least in GoT, there is wit, eloquent dialogue, and intricate plotting to balance the carnage.