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High-functioning Werewolf
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 Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:14 pm
According to an article I found floating around the GD today, there were major MAJOR warning signs that the Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, was at least thinking paranoid and violent thoughts, nevermind planning on putting them in motion, and they surfaced in his Playwriting class. The scripts of which have been released for the public to read.
Warning you now, these plays are pretty damn twisted.
http://newsbloggers.aol.com/bloggers/aol-news
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:47 pm
I just read both of them...and I really don't know what to think about them. I don't know if its a sign of crazy that the caracters are all so single minded. Especially in mr. brownstone where they are the same person. And how in richard mcbeef the mother pulls out all of these random weapons out of nowhere. Its just sad...
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:14 pm
thank you for sharing those with us...
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:21 am
I'm glad it was appreciated....I didn't know if it'd be appropriate or not, but I figured that it was relevant in a "current events" kind of way.
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:14 pm
Kate the Curse I'm glad it was appreciated....I didn't know if it'd be appropriate or not, but I figured that it was relevant in a "current events" kind of way. no very relevant...what do you think about them?
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:27 pm
guys, i don't see how anyone could go to counseling because they wrote plays like those. They're pretty lame when you consider what kind of movies you can see these days.
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:19 am
Gelasius guys, i don't see how anyone could go to counseling because they wrote plays like those. They're pretty lame when you consider what kind of movies you can see these days. yes well no one is trying to limit free speech...but you have to admit they were right to send him to counseling...(after all...)
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:59 pm
I'll have to read them when I get more time... right now I have to finished Mourning for Electra...
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:59 am
My point is based solely on his plays, I don't think you would suggest he went to counseling. Are they disturbing? Maybe, but again, I have to say they're pretty lame. In one play, someone attacks someone else with a chainsaw. Ok, have you guys ever heard of Texas Chainsaw Massacre? And as far as the other play, what's so disturbing about it? Priests have been doing that for decades and have been getting away with it!!
I'm just worried that a lot of high school and college students are going to be introduced to counseling because they want to get out what's bothering them in their plays. Some guys like me write plays solely for that purpose. And there's nothing wrong with it.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:34 am
the is no point in comparing these plays, written by a teenager, to movies that were based on true events. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a true story...meaning that something along those lines really happened. no it wasn't exatly what happened in the movie because hollywood is well...hollywood.
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 10:23 am
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was not actually based on a true story. They said it was to create an added air to the movie, much like Blair Witch Project. The character of Leatherface was based on a real person, Ed Gein, but it was the same person that Buffalo Bill and Norman Bates was based on.
However, these stories are really tame for my taste. I was writing plays and stories more violent and disturbing (and better) since fourth grade and I haven't killed many any people yet. I actually had to read through them a few times, trying to find the overly disturbing bits that people said were horrific.
Also, are these actually the whole things? They end VERY abruptly
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:37 am
Yup, they're the whole things....they lack artistic value, but he was in a playwriting class...I guess he had to give out something.
The fact of the matter is, as a writer, you write what you know. Wether you think violence is cool, that's what you like to watch in the movies, you see it at home or you wish it on somebody, it can manifest itself in somebody's writing in a lot of different ways.
I actually DID go into counceling for a short story I wrote in the 8th grade that was kind of disturbing. It wasn't to limit my free speech, it was just to try and help figure out if everything was okay at home or if I was just finding a new way to express my creativity. I was like 14 at the time so that was like 5 years ago. Don't I feel old. My point being they were right to intervine, because left bottled up violent thoughts CAN and have the frightening potential to turn into violent actions. Which in his case they did. Probably because he thought therapy was quiet hour with the Dr. Crazy like every other kid his age sent to therapy. GRR!
And now I'm done ranting.
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:20 pm
I'm not sure what you mean by kids his age... He is an adult, after all, and was when these were written. I can see your point about possibly sending a person to counseling, but it seems better handed by the teacher, to ask him if everything is ok, and THEN sending him if it is necessary. I would have been more bottley if I were just sent to therapy for my stories, and holy crap, Saw. If anyone would have been sent to therapy, he should have been cuz that's violence for the sake of violence's visceral nature...
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