Oh, Hollywood, you’ve broken the goofy meter again. I just saw a trailer where Hansel and Gretel have grown up, acquired some impressive fire power, and started taking the fight directly to the witches, house by gingerbread house. Fortunately, the witches always used some clearly black magics during the combat, so H & G never had to question themselves, “Did we just shoot an innocent mentally-ill old woman with a crossbow?”
So, I got a good laugh. However, the next trailer was for a remake of Red Dawn, so vigilanteism seems to be on the upswing in popular entertainment. That’s a bit chilling, right?
Umm…no. :rolleyes:
H&G is a fantasy and Red Dawn is about a resistance movement against an invasion. If you call them “vigilantes” you should call the French Resistance in WWII vigilantes. You’re stretching the word tll it breaks and looses meaning.
No, Hansel and Gretel might be stretched to meet it, given that eating children was probably a crime in medeival Germany, but Red Dawn is about resistance geurilla fighters. It doesn’t meet the definition at all, and it’s just silly trying to shoehorn it into your theory, which is a silly theory to begin with.
That’s fair. Calling Red Dawn a vigilante movie is more of a stretch. It still fits reasonably well though. It’s not like there is an organized resistance led by a governmental or military body. It’s a small band of citizens independently taking up arms to kill malefactors. Guerrillas might be a better term, but I don’t think vigilante is far enough away to merit a roll-eyes.
H&G really isn’t a stretch at all. Two people identify villains, take up arms, and kill said villains. In this, they act as judge, jury, and executioner, and as far as I could tell from the trailer, they appointed themselves to these positions.
I see in both these movies an appeal to people who feel powerless in society, and both show the way to reclaim that power is armed violence.
So, Casablanca was a movie about vigilantes?
Yes, your theory is worthy of an eye roll. One fantasy movie about witch-killers doesn’t make a “surge in vigilante movies.”