Ethical
Hypodermic Syringe is the thought that media has a negative
impact on the viewer. This that a mass audience will believe anything that they
hear or see. The things that are the big issues to do with this theory are
violence, sexual content, religion, representation and role models. In
relevance to the Warp film Dead Man's Shoes's the issues that are most relevant
to the film are violence, sexual content and religion to a smaller extent.
Violence is easily the issue that is the biggest talking
point in relevance to Dead Man's Shoe's as there are multiple scenes of the
film where gruesome acts have been committed, the acts or not shown but the
aftermath is such as the scenes where it shows a body that has been mutilated
with an axe and another where a body has been crashed into a suitcase. If these
had been shown in the film to their full extent there would have no doubt been
some type of outcry by the viewer and the news as they would have been very
difficult to watch, because they do not show these gruesome images are not
shown in the film the regulatory bodies' (such as BBFC and ASA) will look at
the film at give it a 18 rating. If the film shows thing that are to explicit
they can block the film from being released, then the film has to be edited or
have more content filmed so that it fits within regulatory bodies' guide lines.
An example of this is Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill part 1, there is a scenes
where the Bride kills a large group of Yakuza and the regulatory body for the
film deemed That there was too much blood in the scenes so Quentin Tarantino
dis sided to make the scene black and white to get around the regulatory body
as in a film for something to be classed as blood it has to be red if it is
black like in that scene from Kill Bill it is not classed as blood. Dead Man's
Shoe's does he same thing as in different points of the film when character are
being killed the shot goes a black, white and brown, this will have been done
for the same reasons as Kill Bill. There is a scenes that have sexual intercourse
in it. There is not any nudity shown in the scene and everything in covered up
by a bed quilt, scenes like this are common in different film and the BBFC
would have no problem letting this film throw at an 18 rating. The religious
implications to do with Dead Man's Shoe's are very minor. It is mentioned at
the begging of the film the views of the main character Richard. He states at
the begging of the film that he can’t let them live because given the chance
god will forgive them and let them in to heaven and he cannot let that happen,
so he goes out and kills them all. I can’t see this being a problem with the
BBFC as it is a very minor part of the film at the very begging but still the
writer of the script would have had to be considerate with what was said as
religion is a very touchy subject. All that has just been said is relevant because
these are the things that would be considered relevant to hypodermic syringe. People
may think that the action taken in the film are the actions that should be
taken if someone would end up in the same circumstance.
There is a second school of thought that the viewer can filter
out and adapt to any content in media so when they view particular things like
in the film Dead Man’s Shoe’s. They will be able to tell that the actions in
the film are just that actions in a film and they are not real or based on real
character or event.
There are no representations of any particular groups, sexes, ethnicity or sexual preference. As there is no humor in the film there is no Confucian
Legal
All of the footage in the film was original so they would not have any problem there. Warp would only come in to legal problems with the music that is in the film, so they would have needed permission. When it comes to ethical issues Warp would have to think about offensive material and censorship. There would not be anything to be considered as offensive material but there could have been censored footage. The footage that would have been censored. The footage that would have been censored is where it show very graphic content. Like when he kills one of the members of the gang.
Regulatory bodies
A regulatory bodies such as BBFC are the major regulatory body with in Britain. The classification given by BBFC IS 18. So to see this in the cinema or purchase it you have to be over the age of 18. The rating of this film was never change at any time and I cant see it ever changing. The film stick to guild line. The guild lines that would have to be looked at are one to do with drugs, sex and violence here is a extract from the guild line of the BBFC
"where material or treatment appears to us to risk
harm to individuals or, through their behavior, to
society. For example, the detailed portrayal of violent
or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use, which may
cause harm to public health or morals. This may
include portrayals of sadistic or sexual violence
which make this violence look appealing; reinforce
the suggestion that victims enjoy sexual violence; or
which invite viewer complicity in sexual violence or
other harmful violent activities
• where there are more explicit images of sexual
activity in the context of a sex work or
where the primary purpose of the images in question
is sexual arousal"
As the film does not brake an of the rules stated in the extract above the film sticks to the guild lines of the BBFC
