The old time country western movies where our hero shoots all the bad guys and rides off into the sunset with his woman of choice... this has been one of the most used movie scripts I would think that has been used in the history of movies (at least in the U.S.). Nothing wrong with a little entertainment right?
Elvis came along years later and he became the good looking tough guy who just punched a guy and he was out of the picture and yet again he wound up with the girl. Later, Elvis would be interviewed and said that "I was shocked the first time I hit someone the first time in real life and they didn't go down".
I am trained with my instructor constantly telling me "we have to assume an opponent is never going to go down, so don't stop your footwork or defense EVER!"
These days we have multiple tough guys that save the day for us all. Tom Cruise, Jason Statham, of course Arnold, Stallone, and the list just keeps on going.
Watching TV last night I got to thinking to myself, they sure are incorporating a lot of MA's into these movies these days. This is a natural thing as MA's have evolved in this country over the decades of learning from the same people we locked up during WW2 and other others that were made fun up, mocked or just beaten because they were different. The political part of this aside, I wanted to discuss the dangers of some of this.
I had made a thread about MA's and which ones you felt were most realistic.
Now after watching more movies that grab my attention in either a good or bad way, I wonder how many people have gotten themselves into serious trouble by attempting something they saw on the big screen (or home one)?
I recall my Father telling me years ago that he had gone to the movies and watch the very first James Bond that had come out. He told me he sat there and got so depressed because he realized his life would never be like that. He also suffered for 30 years as an alcoholic and always had depression issues. This only affected him for the most part, however the little psychopathic kid who watches the Joker or Michael Myers will sometimes act this out... as we have already seen happen.
I have to admit that I myself get rather irritated seeing fake moves and a lack of any sort of realism where our hero actually gets locked up for taking revenge on the bad guys. The problem is that many of these moves are ours! They are things we have practiced hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of times and sparred with who knows how much.
Why has this become a problem? For someone like myself, I have a hard enough time not saying something to the kid that just wants to have a staring contest with me in a stupid parking lot, let alone wanting revenge or to at the very least, confront some person who may have been rude to my Mother, Wife, Son, etc. The simple way of dealing with this might be to just turn the TV off or don't watch stuff like that. That's fine and easy enough. The problem being that there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of people just like me or much much worse who watch this sort of thing over and over.
Without getting into a religious discussion, but just in general one that is discussed here many times, the Lord says "Beloved, do not avenge yourself, but rather give place to wrath. For it is written vengeance is mine, I will repay". You don't have to be religious obviously to understand this and I'm sure many other religious teachings or beliefs in general feel this way, and that IMO is the epitome of SD. Walk away and know that usually that person at some point almost always will run into the wrong person.
So with crime rates rising since the days of Bonanza to the days of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how much has it risen? Or even more so, the violence of the crime itself, while more and more people are on some sort of mood altering drug and I'm not just talking about pot, but prescription drugs that are given out like candy are these sort of things affecting us as a nation/world more than we realize?
Elvis came along years later and he became the good looking tough guy who just punched a guy and he was out of the picture and yet again he wound up with the girl. Later, Elvis would be interviewed and said that "I was shocked the first time I hit someone the first time in real life and they didn't go down".
I am trained with my instructor constantly telling me "we have to assume an opponent is never going to go down, so don't stop your footwork or defense EVER!"
These days we have multiple tough guys that save the day for us all. Tom Cruise, Jason Statham, of course Arnold, Stallone, and the list just keeps on going.
Watching TV last night I got to thinking to myself, they sure are incorporating a lot of MA's into these movies these days. This is a natural thing as MA's have evolved in this country over the decades of learning from the same people we locked up during WW2 and other others that were made fun up, mocked or just beaten because they were different. The political part of this aside, I wanted to discuss the dangers of some of this.
I had made a thread about MA's and which ones you felt were most realistic.
Now after watching more movies that grab my attention in either a good or bad way, I wonder how many people have gotten themselves into serious trouble by attempting something they saw on the big screen (or home one)?
I recall my Father telling me years ago that he had gone to the movies and watch the very first James Bond that had come out. He told me he sat there and got so depressed because he realized his life would never be like that. He also suffered for 30 years as an alcoholic and always had depression issues. This only affected him for the most part, however the little psychopathic kid who watches the Joker or Michael Myers will sometimes act this out... as we have already seen happen.
I have to admit that I myself get rather irritated seeing fake moves and a lack of any sort of realism where our hero actually gets locked up for taking revenge on the bad guys. The problem is that many of these moves are ours! They are things we have practiced hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of times and sparred with who knows how much.
Why has this become a problem? For someone like myself, I have a hard enough time not saying something to the kid that just wants to have a staring contest with me in a stupid parking lot, let alone wanting revenge or to at the very least, confront some person who may have been rude to my Mother, Wife, Son, etc. The simple way of dealing with this might be to just turn the TV off or don't watch stuff like that. That's fine and easy enough. The problem being that there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of people just like me or much much worse who watch this sort of thing over and over.
Without getting into a religious discussion, but just in general one that is discussed here many times, the Lord says "Beloved, do not avenge yourself, but rather give place to wrath. For it is written vengeance is mine, I will repay". You don't have to be religious obviously to understand this and I'm sure many other religious teachings or beliefs in general feel this way, and that IMO is the epitome of SD. Walk away and know that usually that person at some point almost always will run into the wrong person.
So with crime rates rising since the days of Bonanza to the days of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how much has it risen? Or even more so, the violence of the crime itself, while more and more people are on some sort of mood altering drug and I'm not just talking about pot, but prescription drugs that are given out like candy are these sort of things affecting us as a nation/world more than we realize?
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