There was much going on in the 1990s in the movie industry. Plenty of violence, politics, and history for everyone. During that era violence was more prevalent and graphic than ever before, and it seemed to be celebrated in a deliberately enticing manner. For example, the 1994 film, “Natural Born Killers”, with its arguably violent nature, has inspired many teenaged murderers around the world. Or so say the murderers themselves. Social critics pointed out the staging of the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado was similar to those in “The Basketball Diaries”, which was a film in which a trench coat clad young man with a machine gun attacks people who had mocked him. Lastly, one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 1994 seemed to raise the threshold of acceptable screen violence. Director Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” was an outrageous comedy filled with profanity, senseless shootings and stabbings, and drug overdoses. The movie contained one explicitly violent scene after another, designed to shock unsuspecting audiences. The excessive violence show throughout these films really raged public …show more content…
It was then that a steady expansion of cable and satellite TV provided viewers with more channels and more choices and programming, and during the decade, several new broadcast networks emerged as well. Stations began to dissolute. This dissolution also freed TV writers and producers to experiment with daring variations on the mediums stock formulas. Popular shows of the time such as Seinfield, Beverly Hills, and The X-Files, debuted in about 199s and helped launch the phenomena of “reality” shows, in which producers filmed the lives of non actors and distilled them down to the most provocative entertaining moments. The movie industry in the 1990s however also changed radically with the growth of multiplexes- giant theater complexes that featured many smaller viewing rooms rather than one big one. Many big name directors had their films shown like Terminator, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, and Titanic. But the multiplex mentality, oddly, was paralleled by the growth of “indie” filmmaking, in which daring young directors somehow scraped together enough money to make arty, unconventional films that were marketed by small studios such as Miramax. Theatre on the other hand, the least changing of the two, has not really done much over the past several centuries in all honesty. Theatre is