Culture shock about DeadPool
Last week I traveled to US and got the chance to watch the movie Dead Pool in cinema near where I stayed. It was a good movie indeed, but there was something bothered me and caused me to feel the culture shock.
It is about the violent scenes.I have no issue with violent movie at all, and also understand it is PG-R level. What really scared me was that whenever someone, even if he just showed up 2 seconds in the entire movie, was killed brutally (e.g. half of his head was exploded), audiences in the cinema all bursted into laughter, accompanied with claps sometimes. It seemed they were really excited at, and highly welcomed, the sight of other's violent death. I mean, it is understandable if you are satisfied about the death of your enemy or of your favorite movie character's enemy, but does it really feel that amount of good to see someone else's death? I don't get the point.
Because this was the first time I encounter this behavior, so I am not sure if it was just a couple of people in that cinema who happened to like that, or it was a widely accepted thing and I just need to get use to this culture? It confused me a lot. Appreciate if anyone could give me answer. Thank you.
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Culture shock about DeadPool
Last week I traveled to the US and got the chance to watch the movie Dead Pool in a cinema near where I stayed. It was a good movie indeed, but there was something which bothered me and caused me to feel the culture shock.
It is about the violent scenes. I have no issue with violent movies at all, and also understand it is PG-R level. What really scared me, was that whenever someone, even if he just showed up 2 seconds in the entire movie, was killed brutally (e.g. half of his head was exploded), audiences in the cinema all bursted into laughter, accompanied with by claps sometimes. It seemed they were really excited at, and highly welcomed, the sight of other's violent death. I mean, it is understandable if you are satisfied about the death of your enemy or of your favorite movie character's enemy, but does it really feel that amount of good to see someone else's death? I don't get the point.
Because this was the first time I encountered this behavior, so I am not sure if it was just a couple of people in that cinema who happened to like that, or it was a widely accepted thing and I just need to get use to this culture? It confused me a lot. Appreciate if anyone could give me an answer. Thank you.
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I see. This is what people expect from this comic. Thank you both for your patient answers.
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Dead Pool is based on a comic book. It is not to be taken seriously and is called a "black comedy." The audience is laughing at the mockery at the needless violence. It is poking fun at other seriously violent movies. When the violence in a movie is serious, the audience would not be laughing.
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Well, basically Deadpool's character is all about profitless deaths and unreasonable violance. People knew ehat they were going for and got excited just by the fact that it lived up to their expectations. I would advise you not to take this as a serious issue. That doesn't mean that all those people would love to see the real death like this.
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