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Sex vs Violence Feb 28, 2017 13:23:19 GMT

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Post by THawk on Feb 28, 2017 13:23:19 GMT

Feb 28, 2017 12:53:04 GMT @graham said:

Feb 27, 2017 22:06:37 GMT marlonbrawndo said:

My question: Are you bothered by depictions of sex, violence, both, or neither?

Neither, if they're appropriate. GoT uses sex and violence for viewer titillation, but they also use them for establishing things about the GoT world. The ease with which people resort to violence to solve their problems and the casual manner in which many treat sexuality in that world tells us about the kind of world it is.

Disagree strongly with that. Every single fictional world in movies or tv shows has sex and violence as part of the seen or unseen story - the question is should you, and how do you, depict that.

The Lion King could have shown us 20 minutes of lions raping each other and blasting into females from behind, and 20 minutes of Mufasa's organs being destroyed in the stampede, and guess what - it still would have been the same story, as that's how lions are born and that's what happens when you are crushed to death. It would have been "part of its world." But thankfully they did not show us that, because the primary audience was not lion cubs looking to masturbate.

So no, GoT's decisions can not be excused with "world building."