In one generation, we’ve gone from my daughter being afraid of Jaws to my granddaughter singing Baby Shark.
Jaws was a novel written by Peter Benchley before becoming a movie. Benchley later regretted that the movie caused many members of the public to have a negative opinion about sharks.
I can accept significant violence in some films. One of my favorite all-time movies is Apocalypse Now, which was set during the Vietnam War. You can’t have a Vietnam War movie without war. War movies were made even before Hollywood became more enamored with violent films. So were Bible movies in which John the Baptist was beheaded, Jesus was crucified, and Egypt’s firstborn children were slain. The movie A Man for All Seasons is a biography of Sir Thomas More, who was beheaded for refusing to rec
