Boy, you are not kidding. Here's a sample of a typical Hollywood airhead and some who recognizes the problem.
Renny Harlin: "The power of the NRA is absurd," says the action director (director of Deep Blue Sea and bloody hits like Die Hard 2: Die Harder). "We are not riding across the prairie anymore and trying to survive in a very harsh world. The fact that anybody, practically, can get a machine gun or a handgun that they can hide in their pants--it's absurd. Some politicians take on Hollywood as their platform, and it's a very showy, very easy way to try to gain points. That way, you can bypass things like education, health care and gun control."
Mace Neufeld: "Motion pictures and television are an extremely powerful medium," says the producer of The General's Daughter and such films as Patriot Games and The Omen. "We have an obligation to use it responsibly. We have certainly contributed to the normalizing of violence with kids. When it comes to a point where we're pandering to what you think the younger people think, you'd better stop and think. Films have come a long way from the days when the good guys won, the bad guys lost and the police always followed the rules. That changed the day Clint Eastwood said, 'Make my day,' in Dirty Harry. The studies I've read have indicated there is a substantial influence and a desensitizing process that's been taking place with younger children."
There's no message board there, just a chat room, so you can't vent on the likes of Harlin.
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