"Gratuitous violence" refers to unnecessary and excessive violence, typically shown in movies, video games, or other forms of media, that serves no real purpose in the story or content.
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The continuous analysis of programme content by communication researchers such as George Gerbner shows that the levels
of gratuitous violence in U.S. television are as high as ever.
Unlike many modern - day thrillers, this film is an exciting, taut, and realistic portrayal of urban police life, but it does not fill its running time
with gratuitous violence, nonstop profanity, and copious amounts of sex.
Nail a killing shot and the camera will lovingly follow the bullet in slow - motion before switching to glorious X-ray, letting you to watch as the gleaming piece of metal drives through muscle, shatters bone and ruptures internal organs in an orgy of
gratuitous violence which stands alongside Mortal Kombat's brutal X-ray moves as the most pleasingly savage display of bodily destruction to ever appear in a videogame.
It's actually a welcome change to have nice kids share the screen and have conversations
without gratuitous violence, profanity or nudity.
Cost savings, combined with what researcher Dr. Jerome Singer documents as the importance of movement and action as an immediate attention - getter, account for much of the pressure
for gratuitous violence on the screens in our homes.
Sisterlife comments: «At last, a toy that isn't based
on gratuitous violence but points kids toward a profitable career.»
The action moves at fever pitch, with beautiful women, a really, really nasty villain, lots of medical lingo and liberal amounts of
gratuitous violence from which our protagonist recovers with miraculous speed.
From Christine Foster (production house producer): «I think that the public is exposed to too
much gratuitous violence and too much exploitative sex.
The web still contains thousands of legal extreme porn sites depicting rape,
gratuitous violence against women and actresses who clearly look underage.
Lovers of Downton Abbey will like this one: Like Downton, it proves that a good period piece doesn't
need gratuitous violence or sex to be compelling.
Pointless gimmicks, dire stupidity, rotten acting and
gratuitous violence abound, and, in the opening episode, so does implicit racism.
But the frequent inclusion of
gratuitous violence along with a couple of brief but needlessly explicit sexual moments prevents this fine film from achieving «A» status.
Not for the squeamish (or the kids), Deadpool earns its hard - R rating with copious and
gratuitous violence as well as relatively explicit sex scenes.
With the crew officially assembled, the rest of the trailer boasts an array of
delightfully gratuitous violence and mayhem, as well as plenty of fourth wall - shattering humor.
While we accept all styles — including experimental, hybrid, and conventional forms — we aren't interested in submissions of light verse, genre fiction, and any piece that
references gratuitous violence or exploitative sexual imagery.
These were games like Mortal Kombat
where gratuitous violence and gore were seen on an interactive and easily accessible medium.
If they are going to
sneak gratuitous violence into our video games then they might as well try making it as a cute as possible!
Eventually, an inquiry found that the Mousa and other civilian prisoners had been subject to an «appalling episode of
serious gratuitous violence» by the army and that MoJ was guilty of «corporate failure».
Internet users were required to «opt in» in order to view pornographic material or content
showing gratuitous violence, otherwise such sites would be automatically blocked.
Without gratuitous violence and only minor amounts of other content, this movie may be one of the best choices this summer for older children and teens that want action without unnecessary amounts of language and sexual depictions.
We have suggested several ways public interest groups can help the people in the creative and dynamic television industry to «do good work» — to produce programs which entertain and delight millions but do so without the exploitative sex and
gratuitous violence which clearly result in real - life violence and consequent damage to the quality of life for millions of people in our nation.
This gruesome splatter flick directed by Antoine Fuqua trades in profanity, ethnic slurs and
gratuitous violence in service of a high attrition - rate crime whodunit designed for the blood sport demo.
There's no denying that some games place far too much emphasis
on gratuitous violence, and others on absurd watered - down Tolkien fantasy.
But somewhere
between gratuitous violence, the breaking of the fourth wall, action and emotional drama, there are certain value - additions within irreverence and comedy.
Fourth wall breaks and heaps of R rated frivolity combined with that
over-the-top gratuitous violence we all know and love further prove that the adult superhero film is here to stay.
For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and
gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.
Everyone agreed they don't like the amount of exploitative sex and
gratuitous violence that they, together, created.
George Gerbner, «
Gratuitous Violence and Exploitative Sex: What Are the Lessons?
In 1983 it established a special study committee «to examine the problems of exploitative sex and
gratuitous violence in the media.»
Unless reason reasserts itself over passion, the potential for short - term chaos is great and the risk of long - term damage even greater: an ongoing cycle of resentment, bitterness, and revenge that will lead to more of
the gratuitous violence that was seen on the streets of Washington this past January 21.
We would particularly call attention to the Council's stand against the inclusion of
gratuitous violence and sexual violence in film and video materials.
A genre which rests on the fundamental belief that willful killing is wrong and that every human being, no matter how unpleasant, inconvenient or worthless his life may be, has a right to live it to the last natural moment, needs no particular apology in an age in which
gratuitous violence and arbitrary death have become common.
Holders of stock in companies which advertise on television or cable can call the attention of the officers and directors to the importance of adopting voluntary guidelines which would forbid sponsorship of programs with exploitative sex and
gratuitous violence.
Everyone agrees they do n`t like the amount of exploitative sex and
gratuitous violence which they, together, create.