tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594156604382151139.post6814025810085259445..comments2024-03-20T22:52:35.700-07:00Comments on The Good Death: Life and Death for Fictional CharactersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594156604382151139.post-34866040833884381812008-07-07T12:26:00.000-07:002008-07-07T12:26:00.000-07:00Good point. And you know, in a lot of those horror...Good point. And you know, in a lot of those horror movies, the people who die deserve to die, even if it's just in the Post Modern sense that they broke the "rules" of the horror genre, ala the Scream movies. Or in The Ring when Naomi Watts' character survived because she was willing to copy the video. (That reference may be a bit old for this point though.) And if you look at zombie movies, usually zombies only attack societies that have resorted to terrible ills—sin, vice, pollution, etc. But maybe the deaths are easier to take if they're so gruesome they seem obviously fake, and they're easier to write off as something that wouldn't happen to the viewer because the people who die do something to "deserve" dying, and you as the viewer could just avoid doing that thing and therefore live.Jessica Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13134277281082757857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594156604382151139.post-83175748642860120912008-07-02T21:17:00.000-07:002008-07-02T21:17:00.000-07:00Interesting. Another way that pop culture seems t...Interesting. Another way that pop culture seems to be coping with the real world is with copious amounts of blood and death. Consider the glut of horror movies in the last 5 or so years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com