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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: King David: GORY VIOLENCE
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 02:36:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 02:36:01 1985
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
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Summary: 

>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?

For the record, both beheadings occurred off-screen.  By the standards of
its rating (PG13), "King David" is about average in terms of violence.
The Bible, of course, does describe these events; these are not cheap
interpolations on the part of the filmmakers.  Of course, there's a 
difference between reading "He was beheaded." and even a not especially
gross cinematic depiction of the same.

Unlike many Biblical films, Bruce Beresford has the courage to deal with
some of the less savory aspects of the Old Testament, including God's
sponsership of genocidal conquests of tribes inhabiting the lands God
gave to the Israelites.
-- 
        			Peter Reiher
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