CULTURAS IN VITRO
Searching for a Hollywood ending: More than nine billion people were killed in the 25 most-watched movies in North America, but studios are blocking a documentary about it
A former production manager in Hollywood, Peter Livingston, is taking three major studios to U.S. federal court in San Francisco because they refused him permission to incorporate clips from their films in an antiwar documentary he has made.
He embarked on the project when he discovered a disturbing, even weird attitude towards death and killing in Hollywood, as exhibited in the 25 most popular films of all time. Only four had no humans killed at all, 16 showed dead people being resurrected, just two showed natural deaths, only one had a birth in which the baby survived, and some portrayed mass killing to such an extent the total came to nine-billion corpses, Livingston calculated, although not all the killings were shown on screen.