RE: RARA-AVIS: Trip to the Smoke

Andy Hughes (AHughes@sbtinfo.com)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:38:52 -0500 Mark wrote:
>earlier that evening, I saw the play Popcorn by Ben
>Elton. It is his musings about the effect of violent movies on society.
>Basically, a Tarantino-like director is taken captive by the Mall
>Murderers (clearly based on the couple in Natural Born Killers), who
>want the director to go on TV and say he is to blame, he "created"
>thesem, just like all of the editorials are saying. Therefore, they
>should not, themselves, be held responsible for their killings.

Elton's play was first a novel, out here in the States last fall and
winter, I think. I read it and had much the same reaction. Another
important problem with the book was the two-dimensional characters,
which further devalued the debate on art and society and which
influences which.

Andy
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