Movie ViolenceEssay Preview: Movie ViolenceReport this essaySince I am not a fan of viewing blood, and the violent actions that causes it; Idecided to watch a movie in which the violence is less grotesque. The movie that I chose to watch was “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” I chose this movie because I have recently read that the childrens book series Harry Potter has been rated amongst the most violent books meant for young readers.
If you look at “Harry Potter” through a uses and gratifications perspective, children would most likely watch the first “Harry Potter” for entertainment, but continue to follow the series out of curiosity. Since “Harry Potter” is an ongoing series that is continually publicized by the media; more children want to know what it is about, so therefore in order to ease their curiosity they watch the movie. The more a child watches of “Harry Potter” the more of a Harry Potter fan he or she becomes. Since Harry Potter is now becoming a role model for these kids, they will eventually start to play Harry Potter, and most likely mimic what they see in the movies. Most of the scenes in the “Harry Potter” series contain at least one or more acts of violence. One of the worst scenes in Harry Potter is one that includes two of the professors, and their demonstration on how to battle with their wands. After their demonstration they also chose two students; Harry and Malfoy, to do a student demonstration. This scene practically tells children that are viewing it that it is okay to fight with one another. The worst example set in this scene is that the professors are not even stepping in to stop their fighting, which sets the example that it is okay to fight.
Even though I have seen the “Harry Potter” movies numerous times, I have never realized how much violence they show. Within the first few minutes, Harry was violently fighting with dobby the house elf, as well as being verbally attacked by his uncle. Within the first half hour of the movie, Harry and Ron were being violently attacked by the “womping willow.” Within one minute there were about fifteen acts of violence against Ron and Harry, and the consequences for those acts were that Ron and Harry got detention, which sets the example that the bully does not get in trouble, rather the person that gets attacked gets in trouble. If I had viewed this scene prior to obtaining a higher level of moral reasoning,
Because the most realistic version of this is the “Harry vs. The Chamber of Secrets”; it depicts the battle between the house elf and a person with an unusual skill in magic. (An actual confrontation with a bully, especially one in the shape of a mirror, is an ideal metaphor for the actual experience of fighting in a physical combat, as it would have to allow for an audience to understand both sides of the argument to a large degree.)
When the fight begins, Harry, Hermione and Ron move in one last attempt in self-defense before Harry’s uncle, Dumbledore, moves in against them, and the family members make what appears to be a reasonable attempt at defense. The fight continues until either Harry’s Uncle has Harry’s back, or, eventually, Harry’s Uncle and Hermione’s back, at which point the battle begins. All of the “fight” appears as the only fight involving any group of people, a very strong feeling of conflict between Harry, Hermione, Ron and the rest of the “fighters” in the movie.
The “fight” doesn’t end because people try to stand up for Harry and for Hermione (and everyone on the “fighting”, in other words, when they’re acting too much like the other people they interact with), but rather because this entire thing starts to become increasingly interesting because I’m very often getting into these fights and, as with most of the other fights, when I see the fight in action, it instantly becomes a kind and emotional drama, the people losing their lives to the fights getting too violent.
When the “family” is attacked, they’re usually the people with the most sense of empathy and humanity who fight for the people in their family and in their neighborhood. You can see this in the fight scene at the beginning of the movie, where in the final scene, Hermione’s older sister (who was never in contact with Harry) gets dragged down the street, and Hermione gets killed.
Because of this ending, I was looking for a realistic shot of this as well. It seems that in real life (that is some sort of fictional character), fights are always at the point where people are able to take back control of the fight, either by force, threats or a combination of them.
I could have changed the ending there, but it never gets any better than reading the following passage from the film. “While they are being attacked and in the nick of time, a group of adults break up a house fight and attempt to break the fighting down into individual groups… The group starts to battle. This ends, and then the fighting is interrupted by a sudden and vicious knockout and the entire fight ceases to be a fight. The fight lasts for two minutes, and then Hermione is taken to hospital for shock. Hermione will make three rounds
Because the most realistic version of this is the “Harry vs. The Chamber of Secrets”; it depicts the battle between the house elf and a person with an unusual skill in magic. (An actual confrontation with a bully, especially one in the shape of a mirror, is an ideal metaphor for the actual experience of fighting in a physical combat, as it would have to allow for an audience to understand both sides of the argument to a large degree.)
When the fight begins, Harry, Hermione and Ron move in one last attempt in self-defense before Harry’s uncle, Dumbledore, moves in against them, and the family members make what appears to be a reasonable attempt at defense. The fight continues until either Harry’s Uncle has Harry’s back, or, eventually, Harry’s Uncle and Hermione’s back, at which point the battle begins. All of the “fight” appears as the only fight involving any group of people, a very strong feeling of conflict between Harry, Hermione, Ron and the rest of the “fighters” in the movie.
The “fight” doesn’t end because people try to stand up for Harry and for Hermione (and everyone on the “fighting”, in other words, when they’re acting too much like the other people they interact with), but rather because this entire thing starts to become increasingly interesting because I’m very often getting into these fights and, as with most of the other fights, when I see the fight in action, it instantly becomes a kind and emotional drama, the people losing their lives to the fights getting too violent.
When the “family” is attacked, they’re usually the people with the most sense of empathy and humanity who fight for the people in their family and in their neighborhood. You can see this in the fight scene at the beginning of the movie, where in the final scene, Hermione’s older sister (who was never in contact with Harry) gets dragged down the street, and Hermione gets killed.
Because of this ending, I was looking for a realistic shot of this as well. It seems that in real life (that is some sort of fictional character), fights are always at the point where people are able to take back control of the fight, either by force, threats or a combination of them.
I could have changed the ending there, but it never gets any better than reading the following passage from the film. “While they are being attacked and in the nick of time, a group of adults break up a house fight and attempt to break the fighting down into individual groups… The group starts to battle. This ends, and then the fighting is interrupted by a sudden and vicious knockout and the entire fight ceases to be a fight. The fight lasts for two minutes, and then Hermione is taken to hospital for shock. Hermione will make three rounds