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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: re: Year of the Drag-on
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 07:58:03 EDT
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> From:	ucbrenoir!hamachi	(Gordon Hamachi)
 
> Year of the Dragon is disgustingly violent.  You will see a decapitated
> head,

It would be difficult to show a decapitated arm. :-)

>       people getting shot in the face at close range, people getting
> stabbed in the chest, people getting machine-gunned down, quarts of
> blood, bleeding bullet holes, and people crashing and burning.  The
> audience cheers.

As far as I'm concerned, that says more about the audience than it does
the film.

> Year of the Dragon is pointlessly profane.  You will see meetings where
> seemingly every other word refers to copulation or feces.  This is supposed
> to show that these guys are real tough and mean business.

What makes you think that real people in similar situations wouldn't use
such words? I've heard guys in the computer industry utter profanties as
every second word. Why wouldn't criminals and thugs do the same.
	Can you say "verisimilitude"? I knew you could.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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