Viloence: visual vs literary

[schlaggen]

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From: schlaggen
Subject: Viloence: visual vs literary
Date: 8/8/00 10:54 pm  (ET)

I've been thinking about whether Goblet of fire is too scary for children,
and it struck me that if GOF where a movie, there would be little to
no opposition.

Consider:

Star Wars: We see the bones of Lukes's freshly killed relatives lying
burning on the ground. We see Obi-Wan Kenobi purposely let himself get
sliced in half, and in the novelizations and screenplays, we see Luke's
best friend become the last casualty in the battle against the empire

Empire Strikes Back: We see a guy choke people from long distance for
petty mistakes. We see the same guy slice his son's hand off.

The Great Mouse Detective: Ratakin gets annoyed at a song his lackeys
are singing and has his cat eat a mouse who's so drunk he doesn't know
what's happening.

The Rescuers Down Under: Mc Leach goes over the edge of a waterfall
and his descent is followed until he gets lost in the whitewater at
the bottom.

Little Mermaid: Ursula (tha's her name, right?) gets skewered by a
three-masted ship.

Beauty and the Beast: Gaston refuses to let the beast help him, so he
ends up falling from the highest point of the castle.

The Lion King: Simba sees his father get crushed to death by a stampede,
then is convinced by his uncle that its his fault roaring too loud. At
the end of film, we see the shadows of the hyennas killing said uncle.

Tarzan: Tarzan's adopted father gets killed as a direct result of
Tarzan's disobediance. Clayton gets himself caught in vines and falls
and hangs himself (I've heard that there's a nice silhouette of this,
but I'm trying to do this all from memory so I can't say for certain).


I'd also like to pose a few rhetorical questions (which I naturally
expect answers for):

What would the ratings of the Disney films be if they used live action
and CGI?
If Star Wars were just a novel, what would the reading level be?
Are there discreprencies between reading levels, movie ratings, tv
ratings, game ratings etc?