There are many different views on how violent films and music affect people.
Personally, I believe violent films and music do not affect people, but some studies show
they do. There are also various reasons why people want to see violent films, and why
artists and producers continue to produce violent films and music.
From the article "Film Violence and Subsequent Aggressive Tendencies," they
write that even in the 1920's and 1930's people were affected by watching and reading
things containing violent behavior. The authors write that media violence induces crime
and juvenile delinquency. Through their experiments, when a film is being watched, the
emotional state of the audience plays a big role. When preschoolers watched the
aggressive behavior of adults in a movie, they later reacted to mild frustrations. Violence
in films does not just affect youngsters, but people of all ages. In the same study Lovaas
and Walters experimented with the same idea. Their final conclusion was that, "stimuli
presented on the movie screen can arouse previously learned aggressiveness habits,
producing overtly hostile behavior." As you can see through these experiments, people
can and sometimes do react to violence in films.
Most often, however, people do not react to the violence in films and music.
People who have been raised "properly" and who have word structure will most likely
not react to the violence that is put out there on films and in music. On the other hand, if
you were raised in a violent situation with faltering vocal structure, violence could
majorly affect you. Aggression is normal in all of us. But when aggression turns into
violence, the people behind the violence are probably troubled already.
The hit single, C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me), by hip-hop
artists Wu-Tang Clan, best describes why people make violent films and m...