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Films are written, produced, and released to the world to entertain and create ideas for everyone. There are different types of films such as: animated, action, drama, comedy, musicals, documentaries, etc. With these different categories of films why do most writers, directors, and producers feel the need to include violent and graphic scenes in their works of art. Films have become more violent as time has progressed. A Virginia Tech film critic, Stephen Prince, makes a comparison between the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde and other movies today. The movie Bonnie and Clyde shows a scene in which the couple dies a slow-motion death. Prince states; “If one made a graph of the bar for violence from the time of Bonnie and Clyde to Taxi Driver to Natural Born Killers and Saving Private Ryan it would be an ascending line.” (Harris). This increment in violence is caused by the advancement in technology and is intended to entertain the viewers. This raises the question: If there is no limit or guide lines to how much or how violent a movie may be then what effect does this have on the people of this world? First, technology is evolving and becoming so detrimental to this world that people are willing to show off their new eff