To: SMARTY
You can't divorce things like sex, violence and profanity from context. (The Passion of the Christ, Saving Private Ryan...) Shakespeare's plays are filled with sexual innunedo. There's actually less overt sex in movies these days then there was in the 70s and 80s because the advent of cable and then the intenet has made porn much easier to get without going to the movies.
113 posted on
12/02/2004 10:57:05 AM PST by
Borges
To: Borges
I grew up with a lot of really first rate films, none of which contained the kind of smut that is common now. Those are films that I did not have to cringe while watching with my parents. Some were based on stories from classic literature. I read a great deal and I am certain that if filmakers drew from the tons of positively gripping stuff available in any library, there would never be an end of excellent films. Somewhere along the line, they decided that I would dash to the theater to spend my hard earned money to see embarrassing and offensive behavior on the screen. At first these scenes were brief and sparse. Now, scenes of ANHTHING ELSE are limited and sparse.
114 posted on
12/02/2004 11:07:01 AM PST by
SMARTY
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