“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is really scary⁉︎ Spielberg’s movies

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" synopsis

Indy, accompanied by his partner Short Round and club singer Willie Scott, soars over the Himalayas and rides a minecart through the mines of India.

Index

• In fact, he is the king of bad taste! ?
• Spielberg's Bad Taste Story
• Thoroughly entertaining! "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
• A parade of bad taste scenes
• Surprising similarities between Amblin's films

In fact, he is the king of bad taste! ?

Steven Spielberg. What image does this name have?

Is he the director of social dramas such as `` Schindler's List '' (1993), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as ``Pentagon Papers '' (17) and ` `Bridge of Spies '' (15)? ? Or perhaps a fantastic and heartwarming work like the masterpieces `` ET '' (1982) and `` The BFG: Big Friendly Giant '' (16)?

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He certainly has that side. However, for some movie fans, Spielberg is the ``king of bad taste.'' What exactly is "bad taste" in movies? Let's start by defining it.

There are probably three main types. One is that it is ``blatant.'' Even in the case of a depiction of a person stabbing someone to death with a knife, if the person holding the knife rams into the other person and makes a sound effect like ``Zaku!'', then the symbol ``stabbed to death'' is established. This level of depiction would be enough to simply convey that ``someone killed someone,'' but they showed a close-up of the knife being pierced into the body, and persistently showed the internal organs spilling out from the wound that was pulled out. In this case, it is considered to be in "bad taste."

Next, the depiction of ``life being cheap'' is also in bad taste. People die easily. For example, there is a scene where the protagonist stands alone among a large group of armed enemies and kills them all. It's a depiction of someone firing multiple bullets with a machine gun or efficiently killing someone with a grenade. Even the villains who die in movies have lives and will have families when they go home. However, for a director with bad taste, the life within fiction is nothing more than a tool for expression.

I will discuss the third point later, but ``explicit'' and ``cheapness of life'' are typical examples of bad taste. If you look back at Spielberg's filmography with this in mind, you will see how he casually kills many people with his relentless depictions.

Spielberg's Bad Taste Story