Henry Payne for January 08, 2013

Neither the cartoon, nor jack said anything about left or right wing politics here. It’s true that Hollywood is in a constant struggle to outdo the last violent movie with an even more violent movie. The movie stars (Liberal and conservative) promote these movies, but their hypocracy shows when they support gun control measures. Violent movies feed the nut-jobs that massacre people…

If you are allowing your children to watch these types of movies maybe you better blame yourself and not Hollywood.

John Wayne was originally intended by the studio to be “the singing cowboy” (Gene Autry took that over), and in his first movies he was hilarious, but still “blew away” all the bad guys. In the early Tarzan movies, Tarzan fought the “Europeans” who came to Africa with the concept of killing anything that moved, animals, or natives, or Tarzan. Violence in the movies is certainly NOT a new phenominan.

Martial arts movies are also pretty funny, because the fights last “forever”, when in actuality, most techniques I was taught outside the “sport edition”, would be lethal blows, taught for combat, not movies.

But it remains, the best martial arts expert in the world, can’t kill a man from 30 yards away. That’s not at all difficult with a rifle. The fact movies also show the “bad guys” always miss with automatic rifles, while the “good guy” picks them off, even with a muzzle loader, in games, and movies, does promote more violence, because it doesn’t reflect the reality.

RV: that scene from “Indiana Jones” was one of my very favorite, ever! And, the story behind it is better. Harrison Ford was feeling terrible, dysenttary I believe, and when the scene came up, he wasn’t supposed to use the pistol, but thought “Hey, Indy’s got a gun and bullet, the other guy has a sword, what makes sense?” The kept the ad lib in the movie.

When my bayonet instructor said that if they bayonet got stuck, just shoot the guy off. I replied, “If I had a bullet left, why would I be close enough for a bayonet?”

Reality occasionally sneaks into movies.