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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1015004" data-attributes="member: 3887">Kinda hijacky...That's an excellent question. My first reaction is: yes, and that genre would would be pornography, particularly the hardcore sort. Graphic sexual content seems {so far} to overwhelm whatever other genre elements might exist within in film.You actually watch this happening in the seminal {no pun intended} anime series that begins w/Legend of the Overfiend. While the first film contains scenes that qualify as hardcore porn, its has far too many scenes that don't {so in a way this movie does successfully blend porn as genre, along with occult horror, martial arts and coming-of-age story}. But as the series develops, the porn content quickly overshadows everything else, dropping the subversion in favor of simple perversion, which is a shame, and possbily inevitable...It really is fascinating to me; genre and context. What happend when you mix genre tropes inside a single film? And what's the relative effect of different genre elements. Can you mix &quot;serious drama&quot; with ghosts? What about with spaceships? What about scenes of actual copulation? To what extent are restrictive, or at least bounded frameworks --genres-- neccessary to the viewing experience? Are we all just in the thrall of the Will To Categorize?And in related unrelated news; Its only a matter of time before a &quot;serious dramatic film work&quot; contains scenes of non-simulated sex between actors. I read a John Waters quote where he predicted it being less than a decade away. Wow, too much caffeine at lunch... I now return you to your discussion of SF and an entirely different kind of action...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 1015004, member: 3887"] [b]Kinda hijacky...[/b] That's an excellent question. My first reaction is: yes, and that genre would would be pornography, particularly the hardcore sort. Graphic sexual content seems {so far} to overwhelm whatever other genre elements might exist within in film. You actually watch this happening in the seminal {no pun intended} anime series that begins w/[i]Legend of the Overfiend[/i]. While the first film contains scenes that qualify as hardcore porn, its has far too many scenes that don't {so in a way this movie does successfully blend porn as genre, along with occult horror, martial arts and coming-of-age story}. But as the series develops, the porn content quickly overshadows everything else, dropping the subversion in favor of simple perversion, which is a shame, and possbily inevitable... It really is fascinating to me; genre and context. What happend when you mix genre tropes inside a single film? And what's the relative effect of different genre elements. Can you mix "serious drama" with ghosts? What about with spaceships? What about scenes of actual copulation? To what extent are restrictive, or at least bounded frameworks --genres-- neccessary to the viewing experience? Are we all just in the thrall of the Will To Categorize? And in related unrelated news; Its only a matter of time before a "serious dramatic film work" contains scenes of non-simulated sex between actors. I read a John Waters quote where he predicted it being less than a decade away. Wow, too much caffeine at lunch... I now return you to your discussion of SF and an entirely different kind of action... [/QUOTE]

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