By all means, I love Spiderman and The Incredibles. But does anyone think that when you are watching those movies, you feel like they cause a lot of destruction too? They crash buildings and cars,etc. Maybe that is the point of heriosm?? Or that is the point of movies?
Elijah, thanks for your answer. I just realize my question isn't clear. What I really wanted to say is that, while heroes are supposed to save and preserved the idea of humanity, and most meaninful movies, I think, serve as a social catalyst. Then constantly showing the image of unnecessary destruction (I have to say, most time the destructions seem very unnecessary that makes me feel like they are just there for the "WOW")would belittle the significance of heroism.
OH! Im sorry, I mis-interpreted your question. I deleted that post.
I noticed this as well. I dont really have an explanation for it except that when this is in a movie, it may attracts oos and aaas from the audience, and excite them. Or to show that difficulties and problems must be conquered to reach the final positive goal and outcome. Its a good question.
Elijah, perhaps it would be better to leave your mis-interpreted post and simply add an edit too it rather than deleting it and making Miss A's post look like she replied to nothing.
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If the whole post was a misconception, leaving it would be utterly pointless for there is nothing in it whatsoever that would be meaningful keep. I said it my previous post how I mis-interpreted the question. She can always edit or delete her posts to her personal needs. I wasnt in away way trying to subject her post to look bad to fellow members or guests. Also, I find it annoying that you wrote that considering the fact that I already deleted it and there is no way to bring it back so why bring it up?
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Is that better? I edited my past post saying that I deleted the previous one so all the people who thought that Miss A was answering to no one, no longer do so.
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"If it were beneficial, their father would produce children already circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every respect." -Jesus, from the Gospel Of Thomas
Look, I'm gonna have a go at answering this question, even though I'm not quite sure what it is. The problem of destruction and its consequences for bystanders has always been a bit of a problem in action movies in the same way that violence has always been a problem in cartoons in general. And there's the clue. Because these movies are adapted from comic books, they share the same sensability in their disregard for collateral damage. However, having said that, I don't think that Spider-Man fits into that catagory. Spider-Man is often held to account for the destruction caused in his battles, and indeed a lot of his fights involve him breaking of the battle to rescue by-standers from the resultant debris. I think you could level an accusation that disaster movies have little regard for body count, and in fact, the higher the better, but this is because we cannot hope to sympathise with these victims without some kind of back story of thier lives. It might have been the case in the past that we got these backstories, eg "The towering inferno", "The Posiedon adventure", but with the sheer numbers involved these days, that becomes impossable.
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