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From: anny@hpdcdb.UUCP (anny)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: King David: GORY VIOLENCE
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 20:00:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 20:00:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpdcdb!anny    Apr  9 17:00:00 1985



I'd like to warn people about the movie "KING DAVID".   This is NOT A
FAMILY MOVIE!!!!  Not unless your family is into blood, gore and 
excruciating violence.  The movie might have been ok, except for the
obviously extreme effort that went into making it gory.   For example,
in at least two places heads are chopped off (with amazingly disgusting
sound effects, I know, my eyes were closed) and then those heads were
carried around by the scalp w/ bloody entrails hanging.  Get the drift?

Still, it wouldn't be so bad if this was the exception in the movie, but
it's the rule.  Scene after scene it is clear that the directors have
done their best to demonstrate the crulty and violence of King David's
time through excessive gore.  Slow motion scenes give us clear detail
of how each wound is inflicted.  Really interesting stuff, I suppose, if
your into it.  The worst part, for me, was the sound effects.  Believe me,
closing your eyes does not help; in fact, it may be worse.

I can understand that the producers of this movie are probably trying to
portray the "way it was".  But I can't excuse them for advertising it
as a Biblical Epic.  It is not.  At BEST it is a graphic presentation of
the cruelty and gruesomeness of war during a brutal, bloody period of history.



Sincerely,

Anny Randel
(hplabs!hpfcla!anny)