Special Effects

The Revolution of Special Effects in Movies TITLE

How Special Effects affects society

The society of today has grown with the Special Effects used in movies. We are no longer amazed by the Mary Poppins "Sing Alongs" not even children. Society needs some kind of Special Effects in the movies they watch, which could be from making people appear older to making the Titanic the sink again. Not too many movies without special effects attract us. Society likes to feel out of this world when they watch movies

Society has fallen into the fictionist world of the creators of the Special Effects in the movies we watch. Those people create illusions that we fall for in an instance, they make it look so real we are hypnotize into a world of illusion. People jump from car to car while on the freeway going one hundred miles per hour, but try this at home and its a promise that you will get hurt. Dogs talk to humans, even though we know that it is not real we still fall into the world that the creators have created for us. The Dogs have the jaw movements that makes it hard to believe that it is not real. Some action movies have people that jump off ropes that are fifty feet into the air, but try one of these stunts and you will end up in the hospital.

            What happened to the silent movies? black and white movies? Sing-a-longs? They all went away in a blink of an eye, and what took over? The stereo sound, color, special effects packed movies! We no longer want movies that we want to watch over and over again, like before. Now we want the whole package at the same time. We want to come out of the movies with a shock in our face!

             Many movies that have their audience targeted at children are actually dangerous for them. One example was the "Power Rangers" movie, this movie was targeted at a young audience and it did a very good job at doing it, but children fell into the trap of special effects. In this movie, the Power Rangers were thrown 30 feet up into the air and landed on their feet. The Rangers fought the enemies with jump kicks, punches, and with weapons. What children do not realize is that nothing is real in the movie, they think everything that is going on is actually happening. So children go home after the movie and try out the new moves they learned from the Rangers on their buddies, thinking they will get up after they hurt them.

              Special Effects are so realistic that sometimes they turn against society. Society tries out scenes from movies that might hurt some people, some even get ideas from special effects in the movies of how to hurt their next victim. In the movie "Money Train" their was a scene with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes when then throw a fire bomb into a booth in the train station, and it kills the man inside. Two weeks after the movie came out, the same thing happen in a subway station in New York where one person was killed. In the city of Oklahoma there was an instance when a teen strapped himself to a pole stuck to the ground and waited for the tornado that was coming to pass right over him. This teen was trying to catch a glimpse at the center of a Tornado like in the movie "Twister", but like said before, Special Effects are not real, and this teens life was taken by the tornado.

                While Special Effects are the main driver to get us to watch movies, the outcome we get after watching the movies is up to us. Whether we go out after a movie and try and light a house on fire and then turn it off like in the movies is up to us, if we hurt somebody because of the special moves on the movie we just watched is up to us. It is up to us how we perceive Special Effects. Society has grown around Special Effects in movies.