task 4 - violent scene and effect theories

SCARFACE FINAL SCENE


What is the effect of the scene on the audience? Use as many effects theories in your answer as possible to show your understanding of these theories.


The final scene in Scarface  can be said to affect the audience in a number of ways, various audience theories can be used to reinforce such effects. Firstly due to the high level of blatant violence/death within the clip audience members could become desensitised to the violence thus making the audience view murder for example as a less shocking action.

Aswell as this the cultivation theory can also be applied. As audience members view such acts of violence repeteadly in the context of the film which presents violence being closely associated with high power , audience members may then in turn view this relationship as being realistic although it may be false. The hypodermic needle theory can also be very closely associated with this effect , injecting such ideologies upon the passive audience.

Many may also argue that the copycat theory can be applied which would suggest that audience members may view the violence within the film and then immitate such behaviours and actions. However this theory can be viewed to be constructed by the media in relation to moral panics and the evidence for this theory is quite limited.