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(July 23, 2020 at 7:56 am)Eleven Wrote: Here’s a peek into the beginning of the Incubus/Elf novel I’m working on. Chapter one:



Something that's remarkable to me about American media (movies, popular novels, etc.) is its focus on killing. So much of it revolves around killing, and the killing has been aestheticized, so that how the killing is done becomes the creativity and pleasure of the work. 

So for example the John Wick movies have removed everything that isn't killing. He kills as many people as can be done in a two hour movie in the most stylish way possible. We cheer the stylishness of his killing. The new Tom Hanks movie about WWII is of course a war movie so they're trying to kill each other, but all the character development is reduced to a kind of shorthand -- just little symbols we're familiar with from other movies -- so that they can focus on the killing techniques. 

Sometimes I wonder if we're all being trained to get ready for the next war and the mass death that's coming. Killing and watching people die becomes a main focus of our entertainment. 

So that's what strikes me about your first chapter -- it's a stylized and stylish description of killing someone. It's an addition to one of the main themes in popular culture: finding creative portrayals of killing. It might sell a lot of copies.
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