Inglourious Basterds... reality??? I think not!

Upon examining the subject of popular culture and violence focus your attention towards the modern film industry. Movies are inaccurate reflections of history in some senses. An example of this would be recreations of history such as the movie, Pearl Harbor, The Patriot, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan and Inglourious Basterds. Each of these movies share certain aspects of truth in terms of a historical sense but pretty much depict a fantasy world. These movies are also apart of popular culture. I can’t remember if I’ve defined popular culture. If I didn’t well I am attempting at my definition and that is culture that encompasses everything that is main stream. With that out of the way returning back to the focus on movies, each of the movies I listed all have one thing in common. Violence. Pearl Harbor, though a romantic fight against the odds type of story depicted a pretty graphic re-telling of the men and women who died in the destruction of the ships posted in the harbour. The Patriot with its graphic Mel Gibson duel tomahawk wielding battle also depicting his sons murdering, oops I mean in war is call engaging hostile enemies, red coats. How about the savagery of the full-scale wars in Braveheart or the mighty re-telling and graphic yet visually appeasing of the landing on Normandy Beach on D-day. Finally, the complete bone-chilling, fantasy, extremely violent re-creation of a group of men hell bent on visciously murdering Nazi’s behind enemy lines in Inglourious Basterds. Looking at each of these movies and then comparing it to video games or songs which are more violent? Obviously again this is all based on popular culture being the cause of violence but the medium again has shifted. As people begin to become decensitized to these violent main stream productions so too will the violence from our youth.