Deb wrote: > Didn't the director Robert Altman just say >something very similar?
Yes, I seem to recall someone mentioning it. >Certainly it's not a complete answer, but >interesting to think about. It struck me out of left field at first, because there have been wars for centuries before the invention of film and the tranmission of music, but after I spent some time thinking about it, it just may be that Joni is thinking of one aspect that most everyone else may forget in the larger discussion. Here's another thought - in the past most violence in film was shown in a context of good vs. evil/good guy ultimately wins out over the bad guy so there was a moral to the story. However, for many years in the U.S. our films are either often filled with gratuitous violence or there is no good guy - just bad guys outblasting each other to no real purpose other than the "baddest" guy wins. I can imagine that the escalation of violence in music and films can desensitize some people to the point where they really can no longer concieve that the reality of violence is so much more horrifying than what they are seeing in the fantasy realm of a movie. Perhaps there is also an identification in people who are disturbed to begin with in achieving some kind of notoriety in being the "baddest" guy and going out with a bang. > I was really afraid she was gonna blame it on >Santeria, which would be just > too weird. Oh yeah, yeah ;-) No, nothing weird. Kakki
