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celebrate violence  July 31, 2012  Re "Hollywood trying to avoid
villain role in film violence," July 28  There is a difference
between portraying evil and crossing the threshold into
celebrating it; the "Dark Knight" franchise represents the
latter, in my opinion.  Other films that crossed this threshold
—"A Clockwork Orange,""Natural Born Killers" and"Taxi Driver"—
all employed a certain recklessness in their depiction of
violence and have stirred the psyche of boundary-less
individuals to perpetrate violence.  Every artist with a
developed conscience should be aware of the incredible power of
art, the frailty of the human psyche and its potential of being
influenced, and the responsibility for the images and language
we put on screen.  Aaron Greene  Santa Monica   Letters: Wrestle
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