Bruce in West Oz
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From today's West Australian newspaper (28 September 1999. People Today section, page 3):
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>In the new George Clooney movie Three Kings, film-maker David Russell used a cadaver to show in graphic detail how a bullet penetrates a body.
Warner Bros was so concerned about the effects of the scene that the studio considered removing it.
But, Russell told newsweek magazine, preview audiences were fascinated.
The movie is about four soldiers who set off at the end of the Gulf war to find a cache of gold.
Co-star Mark Wahlberg said that when he saw the scene with the cadaver he was disgusted.
'I don't even want to pick up a gun again,' he said.
'I see violence on TV and I don't look at it the way I did before.'[/quote]
This is so transparent it riles me:
1. "Warner Bros was so concerned ....." BS!! I'll bet they rubbed their hands in glee.
2. "... preview audiences were fascinated" .... well, there's the shallow "justification" for leaving it in ("We wanted to take it out, but the people demanded it.")
3. Wahlberg's "disgust" .... if he was disgusted when he saw the scene, why wasn't he so disgusted when making it?? Oh, sorry .... disgust is fine after you have your pay cheque, right, Mark??
4. "I don't even want to pick up a gun again," he said. .... Oh, right --- the gun somehow, magically, "caused" the violence, did it? Jerk!!
None of this rates even a close second to my moral qualms about using a real human body to shoot bullets into for "entertainment" -- that is sick.
Did this get reported over there, 'cause I didn't see anything about it on TFL?
B
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>In the new George Clooney movie Three Kings, film-maker David Russell used a cadaver to show in graphic detail how a bullet penetrates a body.
Warner Bros was so concerned about the effects of the scene that the studio considered removing it.
But, Russell told newsweek magazine, preview audiences were fascinated.
The movie is about four soldiers who set off at the end of the Gulf war to find a cache of gold.
Co-star Mark Wahlberg said that when he saw the scene with the cadaver he was disgusted.
'I don't even want to pick up a gun again,' he said.
'I see violence on TV and I don't look at it the way I did before.'[/quote]
This is so transparent it riles me:
1. "Warner Bros was so concerned ....." BS!! I'll bet they rubbed their hands in glee.
2. "... preview audiences were fascinated" .... well, there's the shallow "justification" for leaving it in ("We wanted to take it out, but the people demanded it.")
3. Wahlberg's "disgust" .... if he was disgusted when he saw the scene, why wasn't he so disgusted when making it?? Oh, sorry .... disgust is fine after you have your pay cheque, right, Mark??
4. "I don't even want to pick up a gun again," he said. .... Oh, right --- the gun somehow, magically, "caused" the violence, did it? Jerk!!
None of this rates even a close second to my moral qualms about using a real human body to shoot bullets into for "entertainment" -- that is sick.
Did this get reported over there, 'cause I didn't see anything about it on TFL?
B