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" I think the consequences of violence should be shown graphically, just to show that violence is unpleasant."
This.
I don't blame Hayter, I don't blame Snyder, I don't even blame the executives, but I don't like it.
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@Ghede: Agreed on both counts. There is something to be said for distancing yourself from something in order to look at it rationally. Perhaps the squid would have been a good idea after all.
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@billypilgrim: I don't blame any of them because they do need to make money on this and just because some of us are ok with the ending doesn't mean that millions of people in America would have been.
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@Ghede: Well, you blame Solid Snake and you're bound to get tagged with c4 next time you walk by a cardboard box.
The carnage certainly punctuates the story, but I wonder how integral the entirety of it is. There's a lot to this novel and perhaps being so morbid detracts from it.
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@Ghede: The debate concerning showing graphic violence to make it more "real" has been a point of heavyweight argument since the Holocaust. Some of the most important works, say from the 60s, avoid just illustrating what it "looks" like and still capture dread and terror of humanity. Having said that, as much a fan as I am of the comic genre, that "graphic carnage" at the end representing NYC seems more like a bunch of buff white men with the same haircuts...their bodies intact even. Now THAT perhaps is the 80s part that also needed some rethinking.
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