Most Violent Scenes in Movies

**rsanz** · 04-20-2008, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by cigar no baka

I find that violent scenes in movies don't really get to me unless the violence is portrayed in a very realistic fashion, with no sanitization. Most so-called violent scenes and movies have cartoonish, sanitized violence so it fails to get any reaction from me.

Thus, that's why I said the scene in Saving Private Ryan was the most violent. The death scene is not sanitized, and the horrific reality is right in your face; the Nazi soldier is taking great, personal pleasure in slowly inserting the knife into his heart, and you see the blood, you see the horrified desperate look on his face as the knife goes in. And you can almost feel the knife go in; you can perceive the essence of a dying man, and the hatred and glee that the Nazi feels as he snuffs out his life.

To me, that is more horrifying and violent than all the car chases, explosions, and Hollywoodish machine-gunning of foes tthat I have ever seen.

I find that movie really moving and hard to watch but watch it quite often, lest we forget. Once I asked a German speaker what that soldier was whispering into Mellish's (?) ear as he killed him and he said 'for you it is easy' or some such sympathetic thing. I never had the impression it was glee in the German soldiers heart, more a sense of mutual respect...

Anyway, my vote for most shocking violence in a movie would be the sudden, and very realistic, domestic violence in Once Were Warriors.

**b_kim777** · 04-25-2008, 03:02 PM

Joe Peschi in Casino where he kills the guy in the bar by stabbing him in the side of the neck repeatedly with a ball point pen!!!

Just disgusting... awesome movie!!!

**cigar no baka** · 04-25-2008, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by b_kim777

Joe Peschi in Casino where he kills the guy in the bar by stabbing him in the side of the neck repeatedly with a ball point pen!!!

Just disgusting... awesome movie!!!

ummm yeah, I just remembered a really disgusting scene in that movie. Pesci has this guys head in a vice, and mentions that he's one tough customer, since he didn't crack even when they pounded nails into his balls. Ouch......