Posted on 02/20/2018 7:29:14 AM PST by rktman
Black Panther set box office records on its way to becoming “a watershed in cultural history of African Americans,” wrote The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts Jr. Yet, the movie was typical Hollywood – filled with violence, including 163 shootings, while Marvel stars call for gun control.
Lupita Nyong’o, who played Black Panther’s love interest Nakia, advocated for gun control in the wake of the Orlando shooting. The actress posted a long message on Instagram, saying “most importantly, we simply need to put down the guns!” Other Marvel Avengers have weighed in as well. Captain America’s Chris Evans has called for “common sense gun reform.” And the Hulk, played by Mark Ruffalo, has criticized conservatives for giving thoughts and prayers, and not actively pushing gun reform.
This hypocrisy is unusually blatant even for the film industry. It doesn’t matter whether the movie is Black Panther, Kingsman: Golden Circle or Gangster Squad. Hollywood promotes violence.
Yet, critics have been raving about how great Black Panther is and have touted it as a watershed moment in pop culture. Even former First Lady Michelle Obama argued, "It will inspire people of all backgrounds.”
The media agree that the movie sends a positive message. And it’s certainly fun with a decent moral message, but it is also off-the-charts violent. The Media Research Center tallied 373 instances of violence within the 2-hour runtime. 163 of those were instances of gun violence. This included the standard rifle and pistol attacks, and the use of high-tech Wakandian weapons, as well.
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LOL. My son was "talked to" by a teacher because he picked up a stick at recess and held it like a gun. I talked to the teacher about it.
But it doesn't end there. My kids have been shooting from a young age. They know where the guns are in the house (locked up). They are familiar and comfortable with these machines. My son also has a cash of Nerf Guns, Air Soft guns, compound bow and a bb-gun. Kids in the neighborhood routinely have nerfgun wars and airsoft wars (I have threatened that if I ever see anyone without eye protection participating, he is done. So he is the neighborhood safety enforcer).
I have had to ask parents of my son's friends their thoughts on the kids playing these games when they come to our house to play (because of one objectionable parent). My son has one friend that isn't allowed to play anything that has anything to do with guns. We comply, no problem. I have often wondered if the parents knew what real guns were locked away in our house if they would even let their snowflake come over to our house to play.
There have always been shoot ‘em up movies. We grew up watching western and cop shoes. We played cops and robbers. None of us ever thought about shooting up our schools.
The Breen Office?
Yep
Yes, cowboys and Indians.....cops and robbers. But you didn’t see all the blood and the violence was somewhat contained to just a portion of the story. Today violence IS the story, the more blood and guts the better.
We also had real families, and teachers that taught right from wrong. We started the first class of the day with the Pledge and a prayer.
I don't think I'm trying to "say anything" in particular, but I do think the style of entertainment has changed over the years.
John Wayne would occasionally face off against a bad guy. He shot the bad guy that deserved getting shot.
TV westerns were like that too. Lucas McCain shot a lot of people on "The Rifleman", but they all clearly deserved it, and it was generally 1-on-1, or 1-on-3 confrontations.
Today, our heroes often have to face a platoon or a battalion of guys who are working for the wrong team. Our hero tends to burst into a room and kill 20 or 50 "bad guys" and then move on to a new location and do the same thing again.
That's an interesting change in mind-set. It's not realistic. And it's not healthy. I would be happier if Hollywood went back to having Gary Cooper go up against someone in a nail-biter of a confrontation. Maybe that's not truly realistic either, but at least it shows that this stuff is gritty and scary. There is value in that.
Remember 1968, when Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant. The news media went berserk placing blame on everything they could find.
The fault, they said, was “Glorified violence” on TV shows, comic books, cartoons, pulp fiction covers, NRA, movies.
So, TV shows for adults but still safe for kids dumbed down to kiddie shows, comic books went mild, pulp novel covers were cleaned up. Gun laws were passed.
The movie industry said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system so they got a pass.
Scenes were reshot ADDING blood and sex, and more blood and guts became the method of obtaining the coveted “R” rating.
Now what will Hollywood do as so many TV shows are far worse than the 1960s and violence is beyond their wildest dreams back then.
Fall back on the oldest excuse! BLAME THE GUN!
What I’ve failed to understand is why for all of these years, ownership of fully automatic firearms has basically been prohibited (through grandfathering) in the United States since 1986 and 1978 in Canada, but people have been allowed to watch Arnold and Sylvester and other Hollywood actors cut people up using those types of firearms in movies. It would be interesting to have severe restrictions on such movies that depict violent uses of those types of firearms, but allow persons of good character to be able to go to approved shooting ranges to make use of these sorts of rifles.
Agreed. They have glorified violence forever.
Nice pipe dream, but AIN'T GONNA' HAPPEN.
I’m saying that we need to get that demand out there, equally loud as the ‘ban guns’ voices. Foment some cognitive dissonance in the proggies.
And car control more people die in Ca by a car than a gun.
If that did happen we know limo’s would be exempt.
Everyone in the movie agreed that the King won his position fair and square. Yet the peaceful elite of Utopian Wakanda went violent to overthrow their King. And the sole reason?
He was not one of them.
A direct parallel to the real world as Trump is not one of them and that is the only reason why liberals in the media-political-academic-entertainment establishment want to overthrow him ... because he is not one of them.
I knew the Black Panthers of Chicago, I lived only a couple blocks north of their headquarters in Sammy Rayner’s old Funeral Home.
The real Black Panthers were not out of touch with reality like the Utopian movie is.
Ya, But the NRA is bad. I’ll bet they force Hollywood to put all that gun stuff in the movies. /s
It’s all about the money and we are the enemy because we buy the product filled with the very poison that gives kids the idea to shoot up the school.
These violent movies should be treated just like cigarettes.
Someone brought that up the other day when those kids were going on TV demanding President Trump do something. They suggested the kids be told how many kids are killed via cars and then tell them in response to their demands driving age will be raised to 18
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