Leon Rooke
...sidence at many Canadian universities including the University of Victoria, Toronto and Western Ontario. For the past 30 years, Rooke has released 12 collections of short stories, the last being released in 1997. Violence is a key part in movies. We as a culture are a bit sick. We get more pleasure watching other people get hurt than fall in love. Sometimes it humors us, and other times we are repulsed by the extraordinary amount of gore. We need movies with violence so we can see how horrible it is and why we don’t go around hurting people. From off the wall fight scenes in martial arts movies, to gruesome dismemberments in war films, violence captivates us as an audience and brings us back, begging for more. Depending on the way it happens, people getting hurt can be very funny. We can be bent over in two laughing ourselves to death. Such examples can be found in Jackass. Some of the stunts are so incredibly outrageous that we can hardly believe it. There is almost always a funny ending to each prank, which always draws the most laughs. From getting a quote from a taxidermist on ...