Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
why where 70's cops media so nuts?Yeah, cop movies from the 70s play very differently today. See also The French Connection.
why where 70's cops media so nuts?Yeah, cop movies from the 70s play very differently today. See also The French Connection.
why where 70's cops media so nuts?
Think I'd also tag a generalized shift in attitude towards "authority", with a lot more earned distrust generally (Civil Rights abuses, Vietnam, Watergate, etc.). Before, individual cops might be good or bad, but the presumption was always that the laws were good, and the people breaking them were bad.A lot of reasons, I think. Economic crises. Crime was on the rise. The Age of Aquarius ended with the Tate-Labianca murders. You had the so-called golden age of serial killers. There were a lot of cultural shifts going on. There was the perennial fear of whatever the latest thing The Kids were into.
These violent cop and vigilante movies fed on those fears, and fed into them.
Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry.
See also this scene from Blade runner:Yeah, cop movies from the 70s play very differently today. See also The French Connection.
More like Chaotic Good! He hasn't even the time of day for 'orders' or 'rules', he's out there handing the bad guys their asses, vigilante style. I mean, he has to work within the constraints of his 'job' to a degree, but in the end all that doesn't mean much to him. He SURE ain't lawful!Been a while, but isn't he more LN?
And, see, I would consider that a complete mischaracterization of the relationship AND the action. lol. I mean, you have to be careful. This is a HIGHLY fictional situation unlike anything in the real world in some rather fundamental ways too. Decker slams the door, OTOH if she goes out, she WILL be retired. When he demands that she express feelings for him, there's a lot more to it than some guy bullying a woman, that reading is IMHO simply wrong.See also this scene from Blade runner:
It's literally a rape scene, or at best something super creepy and with a massive power imbalance between the 'consenting' participants (if we're somehow of the view that Rachael is consenting despite her clear efforts to push him away, and stop it from happening) that Me-too would shudder at.
Think I'd also tag a generalized shift in attitude towards "authority", with a lot more earned distrust generally (Civil Rights abuses, Vietnam, Watergate, etc.). Before, individual cops might be good or bad, but the presumption was always that the laws were good, and the people breaking them were bad.
After the 60s, I think it had gotten more normalized to question whether the laws were "on your side", and so you get more protagonists who can be seen as heroic for taking care of the problems the laws "can't" solve.
See also this scene from Blade runner:
It's literally a rape scene, or at best something super creepy and with a massive power imbalance between the 'consenting' participants (if we're somehow of the view that Rachael is consenting despite her clear efforts to push him away, and stop it from happening) that Me-too would shudder at.