Gun violence in the Hollywood industry

Hollywood wants gun control for everyone BUT THEM!

In the society where the nudity on the screen (sometimes in the theater, even at CalArts) is a huge issue, gun violence scenes are in many movies in the Hollywood industry and nobody care. Actors sign their contracts, do their characters, get their awards and then try to talk about gun violence and share their moral beliefs. Come on, stop being hypocrites and say NO!

,, The US is home to both the largest percentage of guns per capita and the most influential entertainment industry on earth. And while there is ceaseless debate over the violence in our nation, there is no question that, on our screens, it is at an all-time high — no more so than in PG-13 films. Since that rating was created in 1985, deceptions of guns on screen has more than tripled. Movies are more violent ratings more lenient, and overall gun-use in the film has risen approximately 51%in the last decade."

https://www.refinery29.com/2018/01/185256/gun-control-hollywood-violence-in-film-problem

-Guns and gun violence are integral to countless Hollywood classics: Westerns from Stagecoach (1939) to Unforgiven (1992); war movies from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to Saving Private Ryan (1998); gangster movies from Scarface (1932) to Goodfellas (1990); and a wide range of action, adventure, thriller and suspense movies from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) to Casino Royale (2006).

-At the same time, culture is always evolving and changing — and in that respect, it’s troubling that gun violence in media has increased dramatically in recent decades. A 2013 study found that gun violence in PG-13 rated films, by far the most popular rating, has tripled since the rating was introduced in 1985, to the point that PG-13 gun violence now equals or exceeds R-rated films.

-In 2000 a joint statement co-signed by several national health organizations including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry stated: At this time, well over 1000 studies…point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children. The conclusion of the public health community, based on over 30 years of research, is that viewing entertainment violence can lead to increases in aggressive attitudes, values, and behavior, particularly in children.

-Predictably, Hollywood’s response to these concerns has generally been one of denial. For over 20 years Quentin Tarantino, one of contemporary Hollywood’s most acclaimed auteurs of graphic violence, has dismissed concerns about any connection between screen violence and real-world violence. “To me, in 20 years’ time it’ll be viewed like these old panic books where people are going against rock ’n’ roll or comics,” he remarked in a 1994 interview. Yet here we are over 20 years later and the issue hasn’t gone away. No wonder Tarantino sounds increasingly irate when interviewers bring up the subject.

- Jim Carrey made headlines by refusing to participate in promotional efforts for his own new film, Kick-Ass 2. “I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence.” Needless to say, that has not been a common reaction in Hollywood.

-Black Panther and Hollywood gun violence:

Today I saw a movie called "Black Panther", during the movie, I was amazed by the costumes, set, movement... I was thinking a lot about gun violence and this movie is one among many who didn't care about children in the theater watching this. After the movie I found this article:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/black-panther-and-hollywood-gun-violence/article/2649487

-In 2013, Vice President Joseph Biden met with industry lobbying representatives to talk about on-screen violence, but nothing came of the recommendation to launch an extensive scientific study of the effects of media violence on children.

-PG13:

..."But the authors also found that episodes of gun violence in PG-13 rated films had been rising since the rating was introduced in the mid-1980s, and it now surpasses the violence in R-rated films, which are technically not open to young viewers unless they are accompanied by an adult."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/11/gun-violence-in-pg-13-movies-soars-are-superhero-movies-to-blame/?utm_term=.c1f75f38b0b0

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/business/media/gun-violence-in-american-movies-is-rising-study-finds.html

-Hollywood's gun obsession: 25 movie posters from 2016 that sell audiences with guns:

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/06/hollywoods_gun_obsession_25_mo.html