Dec 25, 2023
Violence on screen is harder to catalog than sex, sensuality or eroticism.
There either is copulation or not.
There is writhing or there’s not.
Violence, not sex, is the bedrock of global mass culture.
Violent aggression as joyfully dispensed by the male body
Seathed (Spider Man)
Tuxedoed (James Bond)
Coolin black (Bourne)
Shirtless (Stallone)
Hairless (Vin Diesel)
Naked (Schwarzenegger)
Mohican (Daniel Day-Lewis)
half naked (stripped to waist), Fight Club (Brad Pitt)
rags and sandals, Troy (Brad Pitt)
But it’s hard to measure gradations of violence
John Wayne, hitting the beaches at Sands of Iwo Jima mowing down 2000 people. How do you equate that with a fellow being fellated? It’s pretty difficult.
(Jack Valenti in Svetky, 1994, p, 32)
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