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Hicks versus urbanites, and the sociology of horror movies (pg. 3)
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| Meat187 |
"We fear what we don't know" really explains everything. The only thing I see is that the rural environment is unknown to the target audience of these movies. For them, an old farmhouse is per se scarier than an office building, because they visit the later every day.
There is no deep sociological meaning behind yet, unless you search for one. Now stop the pointless drivel in this thread already. :p |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Yeah. This thread is now about rape and rape fantasies. |
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| Meat187 |
Shows what you know...
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Both horror and porn typically involve penetration of the "envelope" of the body, painful in one case and pleasurable in the other. |
This thread is now about
Hellraiser! |
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| zoogla |
| so when i used to have phone sex i had my ex describe rape sessions for my sexual pleasure. i used to cum so fast and strong. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| You sure that wasn't because you had a finger in your ass? |
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| zoogla |
| um...ye-yeah, im pretty sure i didn't. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Well then you don't really know anything about cumming fast and strong. Amateur. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Interesting point. A staple of comedy, the inverse of horror, is the poor rural person who has a tough time adjusting to wealthy urban life.
You don't see the opposite as often, although there are some examples like Paris Hilton in The Simple Life. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
"We fear what we don't know" really explains everything. The only thing I see is that the rural environment is unknown to the target audience of these movies. For them, an old farmhouse is per se scarier than an office building, because they visit the later every day.
There is no deep sociological meaning behind yet, unless you search for one. Now stop the pointless drivel in this thread already. :p |
Fear of the unknown or unfamiliar is indeed the most prevalent and affecting fear there is, but there's more to it than that. And I think I agree with you so far as to say that there is no intended psychological pomp or meaning with most horror movies so far as the writer or director is concerned, but there is a psychology as to why some stories or movies are more successful than others when you consider the audience and time. |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
but there is a psychology as to why some stories or movies are more successful than others when you consider the audience and time. |
Never said there wasn't.
I just think it's too far fetched to say people think in a certain way, because a few horror movies depict things like that. Other movies show a completely differnt image of rural life. |
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| airwalker1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
A number of horror movies center around the wealthy urbanite's weakness in dealing with rural or otherwise "primitive" areas, his fear of the rough, poor, ignorant people that live there, and sometimes his fateful hubris in dealing with them. Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its spin-offs are the most obvious examples, but you can probably think of others if you've seen some horror movies.
Any thoughts on this? Are horror movies a way for modern technified people to voice and explore their fears of the primitive and their possible impotence in the face of it? Are they one more way for affluent urbanized writers to express their prejudices against the rural?
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no i dont see horror filmes as a cop out for any class of
people!
they are nothing more than a platform for filme creaters/creative type's,to act out our minds eye on what strikes fear into our hearts.
hence why filmes,music,art is so used do to its enate abilty to conjour what ever goes on in our life. |
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