MOVIE DEATH COUNT
Die Hard 2 264
Rambo 3 106
The Wild Bunch89
Robocop 2 74
Total Recall 74
The story in the movie Natural Born Killers, by , is about a young couple named Mickey and Mallory who fall in love, but come together as a pair due to their abusive past. Being carefree and fearless, as young lovers are, they terrify the country by killing people as it comes naturally to them. Mickey ends up in jail, but it does not stop him and he ends up killing more people, in order to return with Mallory. There is extreme graphic violence throughout the entire movie even though it portrays violence and murder as a . But it also shows how they became natural born killers. Mallory has a sad past as she is sexually abused by her father as a child and as Mickey was the one to save her it gave both characters a reason to hate the world and become fearless.
The columbine massacre
of Columbine High school were both known to be fans of the film. They used the movie's title, "NBK," as a code for their crime: "God I can’t wait till they die. I can taste the blood now – NBK". Furthermore, in an journal entry, Dylan Klebold wrote about his alternatives. "I'm stuck in humanity. Maybe going 'NBK' is the way to break free," he wrote, referring to the scheduled rampage. Both Harris and Klebold went out to shoot and murder everyone in the school. They were armed with two 20 pound (9 kg) propane bombs and guns they murdered and injured 34 students, completely destroying the school building before committing suicide in the high school cafeteria. Some psychiatrist believed Klebold and Harris were captivated by games like Doom and that their lives were most satisfying while playing in the virtual. The Columbine massacre caused a massive controversial out break.
They was argued whether or not the movie “Natural Born Killers”, the game “Doom” and even music such as various punk and rock from artists such as Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson was blamed for Klebold and Harris’s actions. His music, music videos and appearance was blamed for the killings. Many other crimes have said to have been performed after watching violent movies:-
- The murder of Jamie Bulger was committed by two ten year olds who took three year old Jamie Bulger and stoned him to death. The lawyers of the two ten year olds said the crime was committed after the two boys had watched the movie “Child Play”.
Or you could argue
Violent movies and television programs do not create violent viewers.
The results of recent studies do not support the hypothesis that coverage to media violence causes violence or criminal behaviour in people, according to psychology professor Jonathan Freedman. Johnathan Freedman has written a detailed study of every published English-language study in subsistence on the effects of media violence. There is no scientific evidence showing that watching violence on television neither produces violence in people nor desensitizes them to it.
Less than half of the approximately 200 reports Freedman reviewed actually give any evidence that violent shows encourage aggression in viewers, and when the studies found a correlation the correlation was tremendously weak. However it is considered common wisdom that sadistic media breed aggression and many public interest groups have underlined this perception with distorted presentations of the scientific data.
The most likely justification for the studies where exposure to violent media emerges to have caused increased violence in people is that those with aggressive and destructive personalities plainly prefer violent detailed shows.
Theorists since believe that media could not have such undeviating effects on the audiences they supply, and consider the media as a somewhat weak influence in shaping particularized beliefs, opinions and attitudes. Other aspects present in society, such as personal contact and religion, are additionally more probable to influence people. The effects model is considered to be a derisory representation of the communication between media and the public, as it does not take into explanation the audience as persons with their own beliefs, opinions and ideals.
As personality and attitude towards life is important those who carry out such crimes can be mentally unfit. The Columbine massacre for example were quiet teenagers who were not very popular at school. The massacre was a way of becoming noticed and also taking revenge. Just because they used a name of a violent movie as a code name of there mission does not necessarily mean they were mentally forced by the film to shoot guns and explode bombs in school. They could have felt they too were rejected by everyone like the characters in the film. There have been many violent and disturbing crimes of unspeakable nature even before television itself was invented. I believe television is not to blame for violent crimes and the formation of brutal criminals.
Media Stereotyping
Media stereotypes are unavoidable, particularly in the advertising, entertainment and news industries, which look for a broad an audience as probable to quickly understand information. Stereotypes act like codes which provide audiences a fast, common understanding of a person or group of people—typically relating to their class, ethnicity or race, gender, sexual orientation, social role or occupation.
However they can be difficult. They can:
- decrease a broad range of divergence in people to simplistic categories
- alter assumptions about certain groups of people into "realities"
- be utilised in order to justify the position of those in power
- continue social prejudice and discrimination
Media portray of ethnic and visible minorities
By investigating North American entertainment and news media you will identify that members of ethnic and visible minorities are improperly signified in entertainment and news media, and that portrayals of minorities are often stereotypical and debasing.
This inclination is mainly difficult in a multicultural country for example Canada, was 15 % of the inhabitants are immigrants and visible minorities include 25 to 51 % of the larger urban centres. In Toronto which is the first city in the Western the mainstream of inhabitants are people of colour.