Action+Movies


 * __ Action Movies and children __**

Action movies have changed over the years. Whether it is the plots of the movies, or the type of action that is portrayed in the movie. The way movies are these days is far more advanced than they were back in the 1990s. Some of the action movies from the 1990s includes Speed, Speed 2: Cruise Control, James Bond Goldeneye, The Matrix, Air Force One, and Saving Private Ryan just to name a few. Some of the action movies that have come out since 2000 are Four Brothers, Gone in 60 Seconds, and Alien vs. Predator, Shooter, Bad Boys II, and Never Back Down just to name a few newer action movies. I like all action movies whether it is from the 90s or the 2000s. I personally believe however that the newer action movies are far better than the older ones. I believe the action sequences have gotten better over the years as technology as evolved to what it is today. Since I have been watching action movies for as long as I can remember I think that the action scenes have gotten more realistic as the years have gone on. I believe many kids and teenagers are persuaded by these movies, and the actors or actresses that are in it. Children these days are influenced by everything they see or hear in the world these days. The one article I found to be very intriguing is “Impact Of Movies On Children” which was posted on August 22, 2008 on the website articlebase.com. In the article it states that actors such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood, and Jackie Chan have a great influence on how the children act in today’s society and even around the world. The character they portray are taken every seriously by everybody, but especially the children in today’s world. A lot of the action movies that have been made over the past two decades have had very graphic scenes in it, whether it is a violent, or sexual. The graphic violent scenes however have an excessive amount of cruelty and blood theses days.

Children are in the process of growing up so they are very naive in what the, real world is and what the fictional world is. That causes a lot of problems in today’s world. Children today believe they can do all the crazy stunts that can bring harm to them or somebody else in the public, especially other children that are in the same age group. Children get the wrong impression sometimes from watching all those movies. They can start believing that they too are invincible just like their favorite action hero. When a child does decide to go and do one of their favorite stunts, they can get seriously hurt depending on the circumstance of the stunt that they just did.

The biggest problem with the children today is all of the school shootings that have been occurring over the past two decades. School shootings have been on the rise since 1996. From the years 1996 to 2010 there have been 59 school shootings throughout the world. The two most famous school shootings are Columbine, and the Virginia Tech shootings. Those shootings however were done by young adult teenagers. There have been school shootings however done by young teenagers too. Some school shootings have occurred with 13, 14 and even 15 year old shooters killing other children that are their age. The latest one that has occurred with a young child was back in January of this year. One middle school shooting that occurred last year happened in Madison, Alabama where a ninth grader was shot in the back of the head while everybody was changing classes. After reading this article and looking at it from a social standpoint, I found that there to be a few things in common between action movies and violence among children. I believe that the article is well written and covers a lot of different issues that pertain to the action movies and how they affect children. One thing that I found to be interesting was that it states children try to imamate their favorite hero, or villain. There were two smaller issues that it brought up about a child’s favorite hero or villain. It brought up how the child after watching the movie then feels that he can go smoke a cigarette, or go out and do drugs. The biggest issue however is the rise in gun violence in the school systems throughout the country. School shootings are starting to become more frequent and experts believe that the reason for that is all the children are watching actions movies that have all these violent shooting scenes that are portrayed in them. I believe that there is a direct correlation between the two especially when the child is upset with their fellow classmates they take matters into their own hands and try to act like their favorite actor. The children these days believe that they can do everything their favorite character in a movie can do, and that is what is causing all these problems with the violence. Action movies these days mostly have a shootout scene in it, and in turn the child watching that movie starts to think hey I can go and do that too. I believe that biggest problem with the whole is in the movie the main character never gets in trouble for his or her actions, so the child that is watching it believes that they too will not get in trouble for their actions.