------- from A History of Narrative Film, Chapter 20 Hollywood 1965-present, by David A. Cook
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Joey 2022-03-22 09:01:09
"...for the first time in American cinema that the human body is made of real flesh and blood; that arterial blood spurts rather than drips demurely; that bullet wounds leave not trim little pinpricks but big, gaping holes; and , in general, that violence has painful, unpretty, humanly destructive consequences. By bringing the American film closer to reality in its depiction of what high-powered modern weaponry can do to the human body...... overturned decades of polite filmic convention that the body has the resilience of rubber and that death is simply a state of terminal sleep. This was important new knowledge for the citizens of a nation whose government was waging a savage war of annihilation in Southeast Asia by remote control."
------- from A History of Narrative Film, Chapter 20 Hollywood 1965-present, by David A. Cook
------- from A History of Narrative Film, Chapter 20 Hollywood 1965-present, by David A. Cook
Extended Reading
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Doc: This is bad, man. I got bad vibes here.
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Chris Taylor: It's the way the whole thing works. People like Elias get wasted. People like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry shit, King.
King: Whoever said we did, man? All you got to do is make it out of here, and it's all gravy. Every day, the rest of your life, gravy.