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<blockquote data-quote="Bill of Rights" data-source="post: 1302166" data-attributes="member: 9940">^hey man, I couldn&#039;t agree more that we shouldn&#039;t find a need to entertain ourselves with violence.&nbsp; There is way too much of that in reality already.However, I don&#039;t appreciate watered down depictions of violence in movies.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like the effect it has.&nbsp; I think it accustoms the viewer to the idea that violence is nice and clean and quick, easy.&nbsp; Not everyone is exposed to the reality.&nbsp; I think if we&#039;re going to entertain ourselves with a story about violence, we should be faced starkly with what we are enjoying.This is what I feel the Coens do well when they do &quot;violence&quot; in their movies.&nbsp; They usually shock the viewer and face them coldly with it, or don&#039;t show it at all.&nbsp; What I&#039;m looking forward to in the new True Grit is not more gore or darkness, but more character depth, and better integration of characters with the plot--ultimately casting some interesting light on the human experience.&nbsp; They&#039;re great at that.Incidentally, I pulled out my copy of the old True Grit too...&nbsp; cheers <img src="/images/smilies/thumb.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumb:" title="Thumb&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumb:" data-shortname=":thumb:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bill of Rights, post: 1302166, member: 9940"] ^hey man, I couldn't agree more that we shouldn't find a need to entertain ourselves with violence. There is way too much of that in reality already. However, I don't appreciate watered down depictions of violence in movies. I don't like the effect it has. I think it accustoms the viewer to the idea that violence is nice and clean and quick, easy. Not everyone is exposed to the reality. I think if we're going to entertain ourselves with a story about violence, we should be faced starkly with what we are enjoying. This is what I feel the Coens do well when they do "violence" in their movies. They usually shock the viewer and face them coldly with it, or don't show it at all. What I'm looking forward to in the new True Grit is not more gore or darkness, but more character depth, and better integration of characters with the plot--ultimately casting some interesting light on the human experience. They're great at that. Incidentally, I pulled out my copy of the old True Grit too... cheers :thumb: [/QUOTE]

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