Rifftrax looks at Twilight: New Moon
We can’t kill people in real life
Well, we can, technically, it’s just not feasible. Killing somebody in real life is a whole lot more work than watching somebody pretend to do it on a screen. It also has fewer moral ramifications. It’s like watching porn, it’s a lot simpler than going out and finding yourself a hooker, isn’t it?
It’s cooler than real life
Real life killing, while possibly more satisfying than the screen variety, is a lot of work, really, the actual killing is the easy part. After that you have things to get rid of, alibis to think through, and the police to deal with. It’s a whole lot easier to watch some actor do it, and pretend it was you.
Violence is dramatic
If it doesn’t involve death, It involves something most of us do not do on a daily basis, hence drama. If it does involve death then that’s the closing of a life right there. Sex is good, but not all sex is dramatic, even in real life, death is consistently important to whatever story you are telling.
Violence is subversive
People in power do not like their minions (you) dangerous. They also do not like them glorifying violence. People who enjoy watching violence, may, at some point, want to carry it out, or at least it looks that way from their point of view. That’s why the police are there, it’s to remind the populace that we, the government, can be more violent than you.
Violence is a part of real life
Right now, somewhere in the world somebody is getting killed, somebody else is getting raped, and somebody just had a cap busted in their ass. It’s human life, human nature, a part of us, who were are and will always be. Art without violence is like art without love or pain or joy.See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/7slj
