Legendary Director Peter Bogdanovich: What If Movies Are Part of the Problem? 9:00 AM PDT 7/25/2012 by THR Staff
Peter Bogdanovich is no stranger to violence -- either onscreen or off. In an eerie foreshadowing of the Colorado tragedy, his very first film, 1968's Targets, starring Boris Karloff, ends with a sniper, an angry Vietnam War vet, picking off teenagers at a drive-in movie theater. But while that movie reflected the rising discord of the late '60s, it wasn't until 1980 that Bogdanovich experienced, first-hand, the full impact of violence when his companion, Dorothy Stratten, the Playboy model and actress, was brutally murdered by her estranged husband. People go to a movie to have a good time, and they get killed. It's a horrible, horrible event. It makes me sick that I made a movie about it.
We made Targets 44 years ago. It was based on something that happened in Texas, when that guy Charles Whitman shot a bunch of people after killing his mother and his wife. Paramount bought it, but then was terrified by it when Martin Luther King was killed and Bobby Kennedy was killed. The studio didn't want to release the film at all. So they released it with a pro-gun-control campaign, but that made the picture seem like a documentary to people, and it didn't do too well.
It was meant to be a cautionary fable. It was a way of saying the Boris Karloff kind of violence, the Victorian violence of the past, wasn't as scary as the kind of random violence that we associate with a sniper -- or what happened last weekend. That's modern horror. At first, some of the people [at The Dark Knight Rises] thought it was part of the movie. That's very telling.
Violence on the screen has increased tenfold. It's almost pornographic. In fact, it is pornographic. Video games are violent, too. It's all out of control. I can see where it would drive somebody crazy..........................>>>>............................>>>>.......................http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dark-knight-rises-shooting-peter-bogdanovich-353774
Just like after Columbine they tried to blame video games and music, gimme a break
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
hahahhahahahahaha....we eat that sh*t with mustard....that is until we actually kill cattle/deer/turkey or chicken for our own personal consumption....
and NO ONE is going to sweat to survive....yeah, we can all talk about gardens and how nice they are, or how dry/wet the season is....but NO ONE is subsisting on their own sweat and blood at the mill.....
nah...we take the main road as industry and subsidize by our own sweat....
that means the system OWNS most of our sweat...we get defeated...that is,,,,until we have those f'en cumbaya meetings at our jobs...that call for 'catch me when I fall backward' or 'how do you feel your job validates you?'...
at $10 or $15/hour I'll pat your back and then off with you to sign up for DSS because your 'VALIDATED PAY' in Rome SUCKS....
as for "The Batman" .....WE PAY ACTORS/ACTRESSES TOO F'EN MUCH....AND GIVE THEM TOO MUCH CREDIT....
this guy was a nut case.....NO LAW WILL PROTECT US FROM NUTCASES....EVEN THE STATS PROVE IT......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Well.........I'd say no........but the kid did color his hair and did consider himself the joker........yes?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Well.........I'd say no........but the kid did color his hair and did consider himself the joker........yes?
The Joker had green hair...just saying
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
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