Why would you switch your emotions totally off while watching horror movie? It doesn't make much sense to me. Isn't the whole point of horror movies to make a viewer feel "frightened". Atleast when I'm watching a film (horror/comedy/drama etc)..I let my emotions fly freely.
NOW you see why I don't see any sense in watching horror movies ...
YOU don't let your emotions "flow" while watching ... na, you would deny it anyway because you'd call it "immature" ...
Considering that Mansons song is actually a barbed commentary on the mindless infatuation of society with everything that is "extreme", "cool", "violent", i.e. the next media hype (and the next, and the next) this trailer is actually quite a deliciously ironic thing. Just like the song itself, btw, which most probably just mindlessly sing along with, without getting it's meaning at all (do we get it? No! Do we want it? Yes!)I don't know if it is conscious, but if it is, this thing is working on so many levels, that it is actually almost transcending into art. Maybe it is even art especially if it is not conscious...
Reminds me of Ronald Reagan appropriating "Born In The U.S.A." for his electoral campaign.
Fits very much together. I had already suspected that the choice of Marilyn Mansion was done for a rather symbolic meaning. I didn't mention it, because I couldn't prove it. Once again, my intuition was right ...
I have a higb respect for his "art philosophy". I mean MM himself. His philosophy consists of shocking people - much like a weird form of a heyokah, a trickster, someone who uses the element of shocking to force people to question their (ways of) thoughts. He shocks people to force people to ask themselves: "What is normal ? Who defines it ?" Something like that.
With this interpretation, the "violence trailer" becomes/gets a an interesting twist.
I guess the folks there might have learned a lesson from the Mass Effect "alien sex" gossip as well.
So much that now they're perhaps actually PROVOKING a reaction they received UNWANTED by that "alien sex" gossip for Mass Effect before.
What no-one actually does and what I would wholeheartedly like to do is giving a game/movie/music CD a kind of "dark & gritty" image that fully supports this CD - but the actual CONTENTS are the EXACT oppsite !
It's like producing a CD with a death metal cover which ACTUALLY contains lullabies. Pure, harmless, naive lullabies without even the slightest hint of irony.
Or even worse: Children's songs.
I think THAT ould be the
perfect way to really, really shock the supporters of the "dark & gritty faction" !