To: steve-b
In the vast majority of Hollyweird products, sex, violence, and fowl language serves no purpose in plot.
I hear you. They do things in movies just because they can. I understand why Saving Private Ryan was a violent movie; you couldn't tell the story accurately without it (and it is definitely a story worth telling). But other movies they have sex and violence just to revel in it.
I am an aspiring writer and I deal with the issue a bit myself. The badguys in my book are really, really evil. I have to balance between being too gratuitous and being too sanitary. Truly evil characters can't be nice; otherwise they wouldn't be evil.
50 posted on
07/10/2006 8:33:04 AM PDT by
JamesP81
("Never let your schooling interfere with your education" --Mark Twain)
To: JamesP81
> Truly evil characters can't be nice; otherwise they wouldn't be evil.
Oh, I dunno. Slavering death machines are useful, but for *true* evil, you have to have the "looks friendly, smiles a lot and is darned polite" type of evil.
122 posted on
07/10/2006 9:05:57 AM PDT by
orionblamblam
(I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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