Isn't it great, not to be judging one another by our own standards! To each his own. Glad to be free from all the judging in the organization where everyone was pretty much afraid to disagree with anyone else. Group think!!!
Little Bo Peep
Violence disguised as comedy
by Lady Lee 25 Replies latest jw friends
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yaddayadda
I agree by and large. Good post Lady Lee, although yes you probably are sensitized to it. I'm often dumbfounded (and annoyed as hell) at the way people start laughing at a movie theatre at just the slightest humorous nuance made during an otherwise totally serious and violent movie. People actually laugh out loud when it is obvious that the thing said or done wasn't actually intended to elicit humour at all! Actually when you look at some of the earliest comedies on film and tv, they are often even more 'violent' in a slapstick way than today.
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hambeak
Sir nose I liked it they deserved it they were breaking in I loved it I laughed the whole time through
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Frannie Banannie
I don't like it either, Lee. And it gives me the heeby-jeebies about kids watching this shtuff. Look at what's happening in the schools with the shootings!!!
My youngest was 4 yo when we were watching a simple murder mystery one time. I think it was that Jessica What's-her-name mystery series. Anyway, there was a killer with a knife behind a curtain who proceeded to wield a big knife to attack a victim. The next I knew my youngest was in the kitchen slashing the air with a butcher knife!!!
Also, as for the violent cartoons, my youngest gave me a lesson on that early on, too. He watched cartoons and I didn't realize how closely I needed to scrutinize their content where he was concerned (it was the late 70's). One day, when i scooped him up in my arms to carry him out to the car, he slapped the crap out of my face and just guffawed about it, thinking it was hilarious when I reacted with shock. I knew then that I couldn't let him watch that shtuff anymore. He was too susceptible.
Frannie
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yucca
The reason I liked Archie Bunker was I had inlaws like Archie. I hoped they would see their selves and be ashamed but alas No they never changed . They lived on the east coast and we had moved to Ca.. They were one of the reasons I wanted to move. But they came to visit and were very upset we were living in a Japanese neighborhood plus my kids had japanese friends, black friends,and mexican friends. We had a few arguments about it. I am so sorry for them they never changed. Archie was a better man he didnt beat his wife like my father in law would. Not around me tho. I would have called the police if he had.
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Rabbit
I am not sorry to say...I loved 'Slapstick' as a child Bugs Bunny was naturally my favorite.
and like Jim said:
grew up watching cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Popeye, etc. There is blatant violence in these cartoons... but I think that I knew that it wasn't 'real', and so didn't try to re-enact many of the stunts that Bugs or Wilie Coyote performed. (Unless it was play-acted out.)
Comedy is funny - if it is performed properly.
Most people understand the difference between make believe and real life. I have never been violent, although under the right circumstances I certainly could be if needed. I've never hit anyone with a cast iron pan, dropped and anvil on to someone's head (not even coyotes), nor have I bent shotgun barrels into a half-circle to shoot rabbit hunters that were trying to shoot me. It's a novel idea, tho'.
Lighten up indeed...
Rabbit (who misses that funny green Gumby guy that used to keep us laughing here, too ~ class)