Is all the gun violence and sleek guns being assembled in so many movies with the idea that the hero or anti-hero, is the savior of the day because he knows all about the weapon and what it can do...Kind of a conflicting message for the industry to send..
shareIf you could legitimately lump them all together the way you are attempting, then yeah, it would be a conflicting message. In reality, you can't legitimately make the claims you are making. There are liberals, conservatives, moderates, communists, totalitarians and much more in Hollywood, including those who couldn't reasonably be considered to have a label of that sort. Not even everyone in the same group will always agree. Trying to morph them all into having the exact same opinions on the gun issue is simply beyond preposterous.
shareYou are quite correct, and when I wrote my comment I think I was just comparing ideologies in the most simple terms.
And yet...my goodness, Hollywood loves its guns.
And why shouldn't it? Any machinery made with craftsmanship and an eye to endurance is remarkable. Though it could be argued that most machines could be made to work again with the correct parts recreated and replaced, there is something fascinating about an instrument with so many purposes that if properly maintained, it will work as well as the day it was made.
And there's the rub. Guns don't kill people. People kill people, and will, if they want to badly enough, with whatever works, comes first to hand.
It's just that guns make it easier.
There's a marvelous poem by Phyllis McGinley.
She wrote it after Dr. Oppenheimer, weary of another reporters' query about killing people with the power of the atom bomb, turned and snapped,
"Well, we could always have just picked up rocks and beaten each other to death."
(paraphrased)
I think the name is "With what they had to go on."
The point is this; I believe in the right to arm oneself, to be able to put food on the table, yes, to resist a government even if that time comes...
And yet...
We have come to feel such a release upon seeing violence unleashed in film.
Why is that?
I know why. Just wish things would evolve so we did not have so much repressed rage