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more about #universalsoldier ♠ Final ♠: Going shopping on Friday made me want to reclaim some cold, hard humanity and make a statement against American consumerism. more » AngeloPolyxena: no one minded when luke killed a billion sentient beings on an artificial planetoid. more » Jeyl: "Does Marcus actually kill anybody directly, or just cause their deaths by tearing apart their security?" No. The only time anyone dies while persuin... more » Klebert L. Hall: People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent. Very f... more » comrade_leviathan: This entire discussion does hinge on the concept of acceptable collateral damage. Working for the greater good with the greatest possible expediency ... more » David Grossman: Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills ... more » origin002: Batman begins sticks out in my mind for this. The scene that bugged me was when he dropped little explosive devices that flipped cop cars. I'm sure th... more » elysdir: I was gonna toss in a discussion of BSG here, but I'm not sure how relevant it is. Still, I think it's at least tangentially connected: Cylons kill *b... more » Faustic_Caust: We need more movies about heroes trying to discharge their humanity. more » wetware242: i am not sure that these examples are about reclaiming humanity so much as control, volition and person-hood. i think it is not so much whether the h... more » tnmnsquare: Hercules and Odysseus run through friends like kleenex. That's why I avoid heroes or doing heroic things. more » DraconisXC: Clearly the lesson to take away from these movies is: you can only be unique if everyone else is dead. more » jamesryan: Would I be wrong in assuming that the last time we had a hero trying to achieve his humanity by NOT killing everyone was in the movie THE IRON GIANT? ... more » Sproing: A great video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz, about Eastwood movies, touches on a lot of these points. And since Eastwood's heroes are the proto-Wolverine... more » MyCityScreams: This rant shows a lack of empathy for the character's situation. Most, if not all, are facing a "kill or be killed" scenario. In what parallel dimensi... more » SJ_Edwards: All these have one thing in common. They're written by writers working in the movies. They're flat-out revenge fantasies. Kill the director, kill t... more » Canoehead: You conflate killing with murder. more » shoroko: I imagine you're probably right, though I haven't seen enough of these movies to comment on them in particular. I guess that regardless of the circums... more » Mr.Gawn: "It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people." - Dwight,... more » Strakus: Solid points all. I think it simply boils down to the fact that action, and righteous fury, and all the rest, are akin to a drug for the viewer. Have ... more » -
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Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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