Fairy tales are often cruel and violent, featuring beheadings, cannibalism, grotesque transformations and evil enchantments.
Or maybe a violent, feature-length version of one of those once-hot cable television makeover shows.
That April 6 bout in China, the country that once banned boxing because it was too Western and too violent, featured a decorated Olympian from China in his professional debut, boosted gambling revenue at and drew high rollers to the Venetian Macau hotel and casino, and came with a favorable tax rate.
Ranked #20 in GQ Magazine's list of most influential Indians and considered to be the film industry's answer to street artist Banksy, at just the age of 30, Adi Shankar has created a distinct counter culture brand for himself by producing a string of critically acclaimed, R-rated, violent feature films and unauthorized superhero "bootleg" films re-imagined through his own uncompromising lens.
Separate studies have stated that female directors are also more likely to feature female characters on screen, and the subject matter for their films is likely to be less violent and feature fewer guns and less blood and gore.
Both are relentlessly violent, both feature impenetrable plots, crowds of plug-uglies yelling at each other, and hard-nut icon Bunta Sugawara, a leathery, fag-chomping Kirk Douglas type.
Separate studies have found that female directors are more likely to feature women or girls on screen, and the subject matter for their films is likely to be less violent and feature fewer guns and less blood and gore.
Their journey leads them into Indian country (with few Indians) and increasingly tense and violent encounters featuring corpses, severed fingers and a bad, bad man (Barry Pepper, spewing fear and spittle).
