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Post by Nicole on Oct 16, 2005 22:36:19 GMT -5
When I was I kid, I wondered how they managed to show so many people get kill in the movies. I had heard that some people committed suicide, putting an end to their lives privately. Quite sensibly, as an imaginative child, I used to believe that film makers would set out to the goomier parts of the city to set up a stand or roam with big signs recruiting suicidal individuals to participate in their upcoming movie, so that they may be killed before the camera during a scene and to the great enjoyment of future movie audiences.
Guy - Luxembourg
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Post by flax on Oct 18, 2005 7:29:27 GMT -5
Given the existence of "snuff" movies, it's not that far off. Of course, they don't necessarily use suicidal types, more people who are desperate for money (or who have families who are).
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Post by Nicole on Oct 18, 2005 8:54:53 GMT -5
ack! I think that some of the snuff movies are okay, but the ones that get into very bad brutal stuff.... thats a bit much. I could see myself trying some things with regards to domination, but I doubt I could ever do ... well some of the stuff they do.
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Post by flax on Oct 19, 2005 9:10:29 GMT -5
Er, you think it's OK for any snuff movie? You appreciate the whole point of a snuff movie is that someone dies to make it? And that the person who died very likely did so because they or their family are poor and need the money that badly? It seems to me that the whole thing is very cynically exploitative - most definitely an indication of a situation where money is valued over life. A situation that I would say is true both sides of the equation - not just of the people desperate enough to be in such a situation that the offer of money is worth selling their lives for. I'd say it's a little bit like selling your body, just a couple of orders of magnitude higher. Really, if the snuff actor is going to die - does it make that much difference what is depicted on route? It's hardly like any snuff movie is going to show a humane death - the whole point is that it's a far cheaper way to depict the realism, and also, that some people enjoy seeing a film where someone really dies.
Of all the reasons for someone to die - a lack of money, and a desire for such forms of entertainment, don't make the best of reasons to me.
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