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Why do they depict small town America as dangerous in movies?

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I watched IT part 2 and in the beginning the gay couple got beat up by some guys. I notice a trend in movies and shows where they portray small towns in America is super dangerous. Like guys in flannel shirts and drive pick ups are violent people. Pretty sure small towns have 1% of the crime in big cities.
 
It's just the type of movies you watch. More movies show the perils of living in a big city TBH.
 
F1980 said:
I watched IT part 2 and in the beginning the gay couple got beat up by some guys. I notice a trend in movies and shows where they portray small towns in America is super dangerous. Like guys in flannel shirts and drive pick ups are violent people. Pretty sure small towns have 1% of the crime in big cities.
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It's the leftist view of small town America.
 
F1980 said:
I watched IT part 2 and in the beginning the gay couple got beat up by some guys. I notice a trend in movies and shows where they portray small towns in America is super dangerous. Like guys in flannel shirts and drive pick ups are violent people. Pretty sure small towns have 1% of the crime in big cities.
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Apparently, if you're working in an industry filled with drugs, decadence, delusion, grooming, abuse, etc. you try to vilify the group that is the opposite to feel better.

Also, I turned off the movie immediately because of that scene.
 
City people fears I suppose. Some of it has to do with the city being more of a chaotic open book while in a small town or rural area there's "more room for secrets to hide" at least the perception of that because honestly the city hides things just the same (see the Diddy situation).
 
partly because they are a safe target to continuously make villains. In urban based crime movies, you’ll notice Russians are the default villains now. If not, then white white collar criminals/politicians/crooked authorities.

..and most filmmakers are urbanists. To them, backwoods people that own guns who “don’t take kindly to city folk” are the unknown and scary.

Though I’ve never heard a story about city slickers getting murdered or assaulted in the boonies for “not being from round these parts” as so many movies dating back to Deliverance have depicted
 
Apparently there were a lot of slick-haired punks in the 50's and 60's pulling switchblades on classmates in high school. "You're DEAD!" they say. And then the teacher is like "Alright get out of here you troublemaker!" lol
 
F1980 said:
I watched IT part 2 and in the beginning the gay couple got beat up by some guys. I notice a trend in movies and shows where they portray small towns in America is super dangerous. Like guys in flannel shirts and drive pick ups are violent people. Pretty sure small towns have 1% of the crime in big cities.
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I can only speak for myself, I feel a lot less safe in small towns or reservations/villages (my people). Small communities are more insular and so far as I can tell just more wild or feral, shooting off guns and putting huge flags on their trucks. Also, the thing that I've heard all my life is that in a small community, everyone will know your business and for whatever reason, small communities tend to be more closed minded, more violent to those that stray from their ideals. Most of the time, in Seattle, when we have stories about violent gay bashings, it's usually some idiots from some rural community who is offended by what they see and really should just stay where they are if they're going to come in killing and beating people they don't like because there are many of those for anyone in a city. If I could hit everyone that annoyed me i'd pop everyone I came across, including my brother. We can't do those things.
 
lagofala said:
It's just the type of movies you watch. More movies show the perils of living in a big city TBH.
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I wouldn't really know from personal experience, I can only say it's weird going to not just small towns but also the richer parts or suburbs of seattle. The snobs are way more annoying than the flag waving, gun toting morons in small towns. Since they are so miserable and unhappy with their keeping up with the jones' lifetstyle (or that's my interpretation) they will fuck with anyone they think might be vulnerable.

There are two sides to the smaller towned people I run across, some seem open to helping a person, I was filling my oil onetime and a fella checked to see if I was ok, I thanked him for asking and told him I was. Women seem more open and talkative, fewer creep barriers. On the other hand, I've also seen the paranoia of some of these small communities and I asked my buddy about some of it and he told me that some of those places are the most meth and drug filled places anywhere and they do have a lot of crime so an amazon driver idling on the side of the road might raise suspicion where in the city, it would just be another car.
 
TheTickG said:
Apparently, if you're working in an industry filled with drugs, decadence, delusion, grooming, abuse, etc. you try to vilify the group that is the opposite to feel better.

Also, I turned off the movie immediately because of that scene.
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honestly, people idealize what we're taught to idealize in the arts, I am saying that the ideals that movies put forth are definitely not the reality for the people that make the film or the average person. Most of us aren't heroes or remarkable or exciting or interesting.

There really is little connection between even our great artists and their art. Dylan is an asshole, Springsteen is a rich asshole living off songs about the working poor, Bill Cosby made a career and clean comedy when he was the nastiest pervert around. Etc..,
 
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