Is a movie trailer containing the word "Drugs" really going to make thousands of people start taking drugs?
If they're that suggestible, I'm surprised they've lived as long as they have.
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Is a movie trailer containing the word "Drugs" really going to make thousands of people start taking drugs?
If they're that suggestible, I'm surprised they've lived as long as they have.
It's an action flick. The key components to action flicks areQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
fads
stunts
what is cool
what is supposed to be cool
action
violence (sometimes)
People are weak , lets face it . IF there hero, there favorite actor comes on the screen smoking up they are going to be more open to the idea than if a fat man dressed in a tuxedo walks up to them and says "do drugs" There really isnt any arguing this point.Well atleast for a hand full of people .
An average parent in a average boring world. Syaing dont do drugs they are bad for you and are not cool as opposed to a block buster movie that is interesting and exciting will speak more volume to the immaturity and fantasys of the younger individual. Which means a greater influence by film which means a stronger likely hood for them to follow the example set in the film.
I'm guessing you saw an ad for Crank, and I don't think the advocation of drugs in over-the-top Hollywood action flicks is really something to worry about. We've got stuff like Requiem for a Dream to balance it out.
People arent as weak as you think. When I see cool people like (for example) Nicholas Wolfwood take a ciggarette out I dont go "smurfing awesome, I'm gonna start smoking lucky strikes tommorow!".Quote:
Originally Posted by lovehurtsIt's an action flick. The key components to action flicks areQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
fads
stunts
what is cool
what is supposed to be cool
action
violence (sometimes)
People are weak , lets face it . IF there hero, there favorite actor comes on to screen smoking up they are going to be more open to the idea than if a fat man dressed in a tuxedo walks up to them and says "do drugs" There really isnt any arguing this point.
BTW Wolfwood is from Trigun in case people were wondering. (Yes anime characters can make drugs and [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] look cool too...mmkay.)
Yes that is what started this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azar
If someone's hero comes onto the silver screen doing drugs, perhaps that person should re-evaluate the reason(s) why s/he is their hero.
Disclaimer: The above statement does not apply to those who find drug use to be a heroic trait. :p
It's completely up to the individual why they consider someone their hero.
The kind of person who would look at a trailer for a movie, see the word "drugs" an think: "I gotta get me some of those!" Would get in trouble with or without having seen that trailer, if they're that easily influenced.
The terminator convinced me to turn myself into a robot. So I sat in the chair and got out my kit of rusty knives, and hypodermic needles I found in that one alley...
I now retain bread on a daily basis.
Very well, it's all reasonible to say. Arent you angry though that the entertainment industry is advertising drugs as something thats cool. Something so easily to get a hold of . Something that if some one arrogant took it they would have a addiction problem? It's not the point that one movie promotes drugs. Its the future of advertising it the future of advertising not caring at all about our teens and that they will keep advertiisng drugs as being cool.
DRUGS are already a huge problem in the Us. Every damn school I hear about has a large addiction to one drug or another.
That is why they use drugs to now advertise action movies.
That is the point. It is a growing problem with drugs, with all the peer pressure and all the addicts on a large scale and now we have examples from adult figures and action stars doing drugs as its advertised across the world as being something cool in a movie commercial.THATS THE POINT
Calm down man.
Take a look at all the movies that show how people who do drugs end up dead, insane, in jail, or in a mental institution. Hell, I think all those things happened in Requiem for Dream.
It's one movie man. Let it go. It's not gonna make a difference if a kid watched one trailer about drugs being cool.
I do agree with you lovehurts, a friend of mine that I loved to pieces totally ruined himself on heroine. So it does pee me off when people go on like drugs are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I prefer to concern myself with helping people who have problems they haven't made for themselves. The kind of person who would see somebody in a movie doing drugs an then go an try it themselves for that very reason, isn't the kind of person I'd worry about preserving.Quote:
Originally Posted by lovehurts
Advertisers don't think like that though. They give the people what they want. Last I looked drug addiction for teens was very high. Every high school Ive brushed up with says that the drug addiction level at thtere school is high and that there school has a major problem with drugs .Quote:
Originally Posted by Miriel
The oldest slogan to the true advertiser is:
"give the people what they want"
This wont be the last movie to promote drugs....I know this because advertisers could care less about your health or the health of teens. Drugs is a big problem here where I live.
Even if others dont want to do drugs a whole decade of movies appealing to a teen audience promoting drugs is more peer pressure and the like than necessary.Advertisrers are not going to stop this as long as we have a real problem. with drugs in the Us and around the world.
Saying that film's make children do drugs is the same as saying video games make us more violent. If a video game or a film influences you into drugs or violence, you must already have had thoughts about doing them anyways.
Also, usually films with drug content and the like have higher ratings, usually 18's so kid's shouldn't be watching them anyway. Wanna blame anyone? Blame the person who rolls it up and then lights it or injects it or whatever.
What aspect of video games are you referring to? Dont be so plain.Quote:
Originally Posted by licence
There are literally 1000's of video games .Not all involve violence or killing and some actually enhance your minds. Some are puzzle games.
Drugs are easy in most high schools these days. I did not take them but more people did than didnt and the drugs were literally right next to you or behind you or in any direction all you had to do was ask for them.
Video games...killing? Well I think thats obviously a different story . People have a problem with drugs at the high school I once went to but no one was killing anyone nor would they consider it cool or reaslitic to begin with. There is no realistic need to follow the example of killing from video games,
SO your comparrison is silly in my opinion. Drugs however is a very realistic problem in high schools today and I dont appreciate movies promoting the idea of drugs as something exciting and cool.
Drugs dont kill people which most people obviosuly arent done with for obvious reasons...
EDIT: yawns rap music and gangsters....DA THERE IS AN INFLUENCE IN ENTERTAINMENT. HISTORY HAS SHOWN IT....