|
BloodRayne, I was just about to mention the steamroller scene in Maximum Overdrive. Gauge's death doesn't really count, because you don't actually see him get hit by the truck ... but you do see the boy get steamrolled.
MM, I think moonsorrow has a point. It's not really the size of the kid, but the age. They're so young that their inexperience has them living in the age of innocence ... and I think it's this innocence that we, as adults, want to protect. Midgets are small, but not necessarily innocent. The more innocent the child (the younger, for example), the more we don't want to see it's death. I think the most memorable scene, for example, in Titanic was when they showed the mother holding her cold, dead infant in the water.
__________________
FROM GHOULIES AND GHOSTIES
AND LONG-LEGGED BEASTIES
AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT,
GOOD LORD DELIVER TO US!
Old Scotch Invocation
-- adapted by Stingy Jack
Stingy's Horror DVD Collection
|