tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256481383244669826.post2800485087200106100..comments2023-11-03T08:56:33.469-04:00Comments on Days of Living Aimlessly: Day 192 - Saddle Up Boys!Jonah Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15718378638626020770noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256481383244669826.post-87525416680487743092010-06-07T10:12:20.843-04:002010-06-07T10:12:20.843-04:00Exactly, Tim. Thanks for your comment. Very genero...Exactly, Tim. Thanks for your comment. Very generous of you to lay the phenomenon off to character development, though. I assumed it was just a grab for a larger audience.Jonah Gibsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15718378638626020770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256481383244669826.post-75053729517407147672010-06-07T01:29:03.482-04:002010-06-07T01:29:03.482-04:00I've managed to miss this phenomenon in wester...I've managed to miss this phenomenon in westerns...I did, however, recently come to the concolusion that it is a bit ridiculous that, in movies, just about every bad guy who is ever alone with a pretty woman suddenly turns out to be a rapist. Granted, these are bad guys. They have often just robbed someone, killed someone, hijacked something, or blown something up. But this would seem (in my head anyway) to be a big difference between the criminal mind willing to plan and execute a kidnapping for ransom and the psychopathic moral emptyness that results in forced sex. But there it is, in movie after movie...as soon as the attractive girl is alone with a villain (rank does not seem to play a role...henchment and masterminds alike seem to be rapists), we see that look in his eye, and shortly thereafter, a blouse or stocking or something is torn.<br />I undertsand that perhaps the director or writer is attempting to show us how morally depraved the bad guy in question is. But, at this point, it has become a trope. Like any cliche, it no longer has as much impact. If the audience rolls their eyes when a scene begins to play out...why bother?<br />Anyway, in my examples, and in your Western examples (especially in the cases of the damsle then falling for the jerk), it begs the question...with rape being one of the most horrific crimes, why are so many people involved in the production of movies willing to make light of it?Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01489610631340813425noreply@blogger.com