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David Cronenberg and Quentin Tarantino are directors who both tend to display this aspect. While I don't seek out these types of movies and they don't leave you feeling pleased after viewing, it does bring the realism and despair of violence to screen without the over glorification and I believe it makes people understand the depth of despair of those exposed to violence. I concur on No Country For Old Men (Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem et al)
A few others besides those mentioned:
Unforgiven, 1992 Clint Eastwood / Morgan Freeman / Gene Hackman
The Untouchables, 1987 Connery / Costner / De Niro re: Elliott Ness's Chicago years
While early cinema didn't have as much displayed violence due to the Hays Production code, there are some that also come readily to mind.
Fritz Lang's 1931 German classic, M starring Peter Lorre as the child murderer
1953 The Big Heat: Glenn Ford, Gloria Graham, Lee Marvin
1954 Suddenly: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden
1955 Bad Day At Black Rock: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan
1955 The Desperate Hours: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March
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Btw, it is interesting how so many of the films mentioned are some of my favorites: The Untouchables, The Unforgiven, Silence of the Lambs, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood-- all very good movies, imo.
Also, 3:10 to Rio (both versions good, but I like the Russell Crowe version better.) And speaking of Russell Crowe, I also like Gladiator which fits into that category, too. And I also like most of the recent violent/action Liam Neesom movies, such as Taken, which was very violent along the line of Death Wish starring Charles Bronson.
I never pass a woodchipper without thinking of it.
The "instant" violence is what is shocking. From the gunshot to the cop during the traffic stop to the shooting of the eyewitnesses to the indian guy beating Steve Buscemi with a belt. The violence goes 0-100 in literally one frame.
Woodchipper with the foot was memorable and in a rural area that wouldn't be odd to run a chipper on your property in the middle of a winter day........just didn't expect the foot to be hanging out of the top!
I also like most of the recent violent/action Liam Neesom movies, such as Taken, which was very violent along the line of Death Wish starring Charles Bronson.
If you like Neeson flicks, be sure to check out ---
RUN ALL NIGHT. This one didn't seem to get much attention, but it is a really good movie. Has a very '70s vibe to it.
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. I never could get into the novels on which this was based, but the movie was excellent. A great example of the movie outshining the book.
COLD PURSUIT. A great action comedy. It's one of the few movies where I can honestly say it is hilariously violent. Many of the death scenes have you wincing in horror and laughing hysterically at the same time. There is even a bonus death in the final seconds of the movie.
The "instant" violence is what is shocking. From the gunshot to the cop during the traffic stop to the shooting of the eyewitnesses to the indian guy beating Steve Buscemi with a belt. The violence goes 0-100 in literally one frame.
Woodchipper with the foot was memorable and in a rural area that wouldn't be odd to run a chipper on your property in the middle of a winter day........just didn't expect the foot to be hanging out of the top!
The jaw-dropper for me was the scene prior when Gaear finally loses it on Carl. Carl turns to find Gaear in attack mode, arm raised to strike and closing the gap between them pronto. BUT the scene ends about a millisecond before the moment of impact. I thought that little bit of editing was brilliantly effective, as it simply underscores the cringeworthiness of it all.
A Clockwork Orange is another good one, both book and movie. I haven't read the book in years and it's time for a re-read. I've watched the movie at least 8 times.
Much of the story is specifically about a character study, a case where 'professionals' attempt to change a bad character into a good one. It doesn't work out.
I love this movie for its set and casting choices, and the musical score. Some of the violent scenes toward women are hard to watch, and the book was worse.
Some poor flick I one time saw where the woman finds the male homicidal psycho to learn from him. At one point, he calls her crazy and she screams at him because that is what her old boyfriend use to call her to which he observes,
"Well, neither of us are playing with a full deck here.".
As said, it was a poor movie but that point, of the psycho recognizing, if only for a moment, that he is a psycho, rather clinches it.
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